Raja Kumar Thapa
Department of Process, Energy and Environmental Technology, University College of Southeast Norway, Porsgrunn, Norway
Britt M. E. Moldestad
Department of Process, Energy and Environmental Technology, University College of Southeast Norway, Porsgrunn, Norway
Download articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.3384/ecp1714292Published in: Proceedings of The 9th EUROSIM Congress on Modelling and Simulation, EUROSIM 2016, The 57th SIMS Conference on Simulation and Modelling SIMS 2016
Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 142:13, p. 92-98
Published: 2018-12-19
ISBN: 978-91-7685-399-3
ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)
The riser of a dual ?uidized bed gasi?cation reactor heats bed materials by burning residual char particles coming from gasi?cation part of the reactor. A validated Computational Particle Fluid Dynamic (CPFD) model is applied to simulate combustion of char particles in a riser of dual ?uidized bed gasi?cation reactor in a demonstration plant with 8 MW fuel capacity. The plant is located in Güssing, Austria. The three-dimensional model is used investigate combustion reaction as a function of the bottom, primary and secondary air feed rates. The results show there is a still possibility to improve combustion reaction by optimizing air feed rates, which can maximize the bed material temperature without increasing additional char particles feed.