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Chapter and Conference Paper
In Situ Visual Monitoring of Rotary Air Preheater Blockage: Setup and Image Analysis
Blockage of air preheaters has become a common problem in coal-fired power plants due to the formation of sticky ammonium bisulfate. The lack of efficient monitoring technique hinders the efforts to prevent th...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Numerical Investigation of Fly Ash Deposition onto Tube Bundles Inside Coal-Fired Boilers
The particle-laden flow across tube arrays is numerically investigated as a model problem of ash deposition onto the convection heat transfer surfaces inside practical boilers. The transverse pitch ratio is fo...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Technical Measures in Design and Operation of the 1000 MW Supercritical Boiler Burning High-Slagging-Propensity Coal
Centralized coal utilization in large-scale units is still an indispensable part of the energy structure of many develo** countries to maintain grid stability. This work is focused on the technical considera...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Population Balance Model for Fine Particle Removal Inside the Electrostatic Precipitator
The electrostatic precipitators (ESP), as the major dust removal devices, requires more advanced designing tools to effectively reduce the fine particulate matter (PM). In this paper a multidimensional populat...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Theoretical Analyses on Isolated Particle Ignition of Coal and Biomass
In this paper, an improved transient ignition model is used to study the ignition differences between coal and biomass particles, including ignition time and modes. Using the inflection condition for particle ...