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A Study on the Exhaust Gas Recirculation in a MILD Combustion Furnace by Using the Coanda Nozzle Effect

MILD 연소로에서 Coanda 노즐 효과를 이용한 배기가스 재순환에 관한 연구

  • Received : 2013.11.09
  • Accepted : 2013.12.05
  • Published : 2013.12.30
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Abstract

A MILD (Moderate and Intense Low oxygen Dilution) combustion, which is effective in the reduction of NOx, is considerably affected by the recirculation flow rate of hot exhaust gas to the combustion furnace. The present study used the MILD combustor, which has coaxial cylindrical tube. The outside tube of the MILD combustor corresponds to the exhaust gas passage and the inner side tube is the furnace passage. A numerical analysis was accomplished to elucidate the characteristics of exhaust gas entrainment toward the inner furnace with the changes of coanda nozzle geometrical parameters, nozzle passage gap length, nozzle passage length, nozzle angle and expansion length. The optimal configuration of coanda nozzle for the best entrainment flow rate was gap length, 0.5 mm, expansion angle, 4o and expansion length, 146 mm. The nozzle passage length was irrelevant to the exhaust gas entrainement.

질소산화물 저감에 큰 효과가 있는 MILD 연소는 고온의 배기가스가 연소로내에 유입되는 양에 따라 질소산화물 저감 특성이 많은 영향을 받는다. 본 연구에서는 동심원관 형태의 MILD 연소로에서 바깥 원통의 배기가스 통로에서부터 안쪽 원통의 연소통로 사이에 연결관을 설치하고 배기가스를 유입하기 위해 coanda 노즐을 사용하였다. 이러한 coanda 노즐의 기하학적 형상 변화에 따라 고압공기 유량, 배기가스 유입량 특성을 수치해석을 통해 살펴봄으로써 최적의 coanda 노즐 형상을 도출하는 것을 본 연구의 목적으로 하였다. 본 연구의 전산 해석의 결과는 conada 노즐의 노즐 통로 간격이 0.5 mm, 노즐 각도 $4^{\circ}$, 노즐 확관 길이 146 mm일 때 최적의 유입량비가 되었고 노즐 통로 수직 길이는 유입량비에 무관하였다.

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