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Reference Number | DTI/CC/226 | |
Title | Carbon Burnout - Coal Fineness effects | |
Status | Completed | |
Energy Categories | Other Power and Storage Technologies (Electric power conversion) 20%; Fossil Fuels: Oil Gas and Coal (Coal, Coal production, preparation and transport) 80%; |
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Research Types | Applied Research and Development 100% | |
Science and Technology Fields | ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY 100% | |
UKERC Cross Cutting Characterisation | Not Cross-cutting 100% | |
Principal Investigator |
Dr MJF Colechin No email address given E.ON UK (formerly PowerGen) |
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Award Type | 3 | |
Funding Source | DTI | |
Start Date | 01 February 2001 | |
End Date | 01 January 2003 | |
Duration | 23 months | |
Total Grant Value | £98,877 | |
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Region | East Midlands | |
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Investigators | Principal Investigator | Dr MJF Colechin , E.ON UK (formerly PowerGen) (99.997%) |
Other Investigator | Project Contact , Chemistry, Imperial College London (0.001%) Project Contact , TXU UK Limited (0.001%) Project Contact , Babcock International Group plc (0.001%) |
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Objectives | It is generally accepted that improvements in coal particle size distribution are beneficial to carbon burnout, and considerable emphasis is placed on the optimisation and maintenance of coal pulverising equipment at utility power plant. The modelling of carbon burnout has been the subject of a number of recent and ongoing projects, some of which have received the financial support of the DTI, and significant technical advances have been made. However, there is an absence of available plantdata to demonstrate the effect of coal particle size distribution on carbon in ash, which would allow the validation of this aspect of CFD and engineering models of burnout. This project seeks to address the shortfall. The overall aim of the project is to establish good quality plant data to demonstrate the effect of changing coal fineness in a controlled way. Specific objectives are:
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Abstract | The main activity will be full-scale plant testing, where the coal particle size distribution will be adjusted by changes to the pulverising equipment classifiers. The plant testing will be supported by laboratory scale studies of the coals fired and flyashes arising, along with mathematical modelling utilising the results of these studies. Combustion tests will also be undertaken with a range of PF fineness levels on a single burner 1 MWth combustion test facility. This will provide data on the influence of coal particle size with perfect fuel and air distribution. As far as is practicable the coal quality for the test facility and plant trials will be the same. | |
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Added to Database | 01/01/07 |