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What the Combustion Engineer Gains from CFD Modeling: Gas Furnace
Author(s) -
Hájek Jiří,
Vondál Jiří,
Juřena Tomáš,
Sláma Jaroslav
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
chemical engineering and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.403
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1521-4125
pISSN - 0930-7516
DOI - 10.1002/ceat.201800612
Subject(s) - combustion , combustor , computational fluid dynamics , natural gas , boiler (water heating) , engineering , process engineering , work (physics) , troubleshooting , mechanical engineering , waste management , chemistry , reliability engineering , aerospace engineering , organic chemistry
Combustion engineers require correct predictions of trends, especially in cases when computational fluid dynamics is applied for troubleshooting, scale‐up, or decision support in the design phase. Validation of models by parametric studies and in a large‐scale furnace is rare and much needed. This is the primary objective of this work. Similarly, combustion engineers require the prediction of heat loads in specific parts of a boiler or furnace. The second objective of this work is to provide exactly such type of validation for a megawatt‐scale burner. Both cases use natural gas fuel. The models applied to perform the predictions are typical of practicing combustion engineers, providing fast turnaround times. The results provide a perspective on the performance of models serving as workhorses in engineering companies.