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CFD Modling of Combustion Furnaces

Steag Energy Services (formerly ESA) provides comprehensive consulting and testing services to combustion related industries. The foundation of the company is the capability to perform on-site testing and diagnosis of combustion properties. Complementing this are Steag Energy Services's (formerly ESA) experience in the fundamental science of combustion and NOx formation, as well as experience in development of new technologies and project management. Steag Energy Services (formerly ESA) engineers have assisted electric utilities in design, implementation, and testing of modifications to fossil fuel fired boilers for emission control for the past 25 years.

Image rendered from a CFD model of a split flame burner tip. The black lines show predicted coal particle traces. The iso-volatile fraction surface shows a colored scale defining the temperature gradient along the surface. The surface shows the delayed mixing achieved by the burner tip design. The many small colored vectors describe particle velocity.

Steag Energy Services's (formerly ESA) experience in testing and combustion consulting has lead to the understanding that all boilers are unique. Even units identical in design and construction rarely function the same. One-size-fits-all solutions rarely work as planned. To truly be a solution, a design must be customized to the plant's current situation.

CFD modeling has become one of the best tools for addressing this situation. When carefully validated to testing at the boundaries, CFD modeling allows understanding of the combustion processes occurring in areas where testing can provide little insight. CFD technology has proven to be an extremely useful tool for successful design and implementation of furnace and windbox modifications. Steag Energy Services (formerly ESA) has employed this tool on behalf of electric utilities to explore conventional and leading edge technologies.