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Experimental study on NO reduction in oxy-fuel combustion using synthetic coals with pyridinic or pyrrolic nitrogen

Applied Sciences (Switzerland), ISSN: 2076-3417, Vol: 8, Issue: 12
2018
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    7
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      7
  • Captures
    15

Article Description

Oxy-fuel combustion technology can capture carbon dioxide (CO) in the large-scale and greatly lower nitrogen oxides (NO) emission in coal-fired power plants. However, the influence of inherent minerals on NO reduction still remains unclear and the impact of oxy-fuel combustion on the transformation of different nitrogen functional groups has yet to be fully understood. The present work aims to obtain a further understanding of the NO reduction during oxy-fuel combustion using synthetic coals with pyrrolic or pyridinic nitrogen. Compared to pyridinic nitrogen, more of the pyrrolic nitrogen in synthetic coal was converted to NO. The conversion ratio of nitric oxide (NO) first increased significantly with the rising oxygen content and then trended to an asymptotically constant as the oxygen (O) content varied between 10-50%. The nitrogen dioxide (NO) formation was roughly proportional to the oxygen content. The NO conversion was increased with particle size but the case of NO showed a non-monotonic variation. The catalytic effects of sodium carbonate (NaCO), calcium carbonate (CaCO), and ferric oxide (FeO) on the transformation of pyridinic nitrogen to NO were independent of the combustion atmosphere, while the alteration from air to the oxy-fuel combustion led to a change of mineral catalytic effect on the oxidation of pyrrolic nitrogen within the coal matrix.

Bibliographic Details

Chang'an Wang; Pengqian Wang; Lin Zhao; Yongbo Du; Defu Che

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Materials Science; Physics and Astronomy; Engineering; Chemical Engineering; Computer Science

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