Combustion mechanism development and CFD simulation for the prediction of soot emission during flaring
Industrial Flares are important safety devices to burn off the unwanted gas during process startup, shutdown, or upset. However, flaring, especially the associated smoke, is a symbol of emissions from refineries, oil gas fields, and chemical processing plants. How to simultaneously achieve high comb...
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Published in | Frontiers of chemical science and engineering Vol. 10; no. 4; pp. 459 - 471 |
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Main Authors | , , , , , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
Published |
Beijing
Higher Education Press
01.12.2016
Springer Nature B.V |
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Online Access | Get full text |
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Summary: | Industrial Flares are important safety devices to burn off the unwanted gas during process startup, shutdown, or upset. However, flaring, especially the associated smoke, is a symbol of emissions from refineries, oil gas fields, and chemical processing plants. How to simultaneously achieve high combustion efficiency (CE) and low soot emission is an important issue. Soot emissions are influenced by many factors. Flare operators tend to over-steam or over-air to suppress smoke, which results in low CE. How to achieve optimal flare performance remains a question to the industry and the regulatory agencies. In this paper, regulations in the US regarding flaring were reviewed. In order to determine the optimal operating window for the flare, different combustion mechanisms related to soot emissions were summarized. A new combustion mechanism (Vsoot) for predicting soot emissions was developed and validated against experimental data. Computational fluid dynamic (CFD) models combined with Vsoot combustion mechanism were developed to simulate the flaring events. It was observed that simulation results agree well with experimental data. |
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ISSN: | 2095-0179 2095-0187 |
DOI: | 10.1007/s11705-016-1594-y |