Review on Combustion Optimization Methods in Pulverised Coal Fired Boiler

  Tharayil James Joseph,  Devendra Singh Thapa,  Mit Patel

The demand of electricity is increasing nowadays and has raised the necessity of improved power generation technologies, especially in developing countries like India. Reduction of emissions of greenhouse gases is the need of hour and it could be achieved considerably by improving the efficiency of existing coal fired plants. Operation of non-optimized boiler can lead to reduced boiler efficiency, increased excess air requirements, delayed combustion, increased heat rate, high CO and NOx emissions and many other. Optimization of combustion in pulverised coal fired boiler is very important today for every thermal power plant. The combustion in pulverised coal fired boiler is affected by quality of coal, pulverised coal fineness, burner tilting angle, air fuel ratio, and slagging and NOx formation. The review on different optimization techniques has been carried out.

Keywords- Optimization, combustion, greenhouse gases, burner tilting angle.

Unique Identification Number - IJEDR1703010
Page Number(s) - 70-77
Pubished in - Volume 5 | Issue 3 | July 2017
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Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)

  Tharayil James Joseph,  Devendra Singh Thapa,  Mit Patel,   "Review on Combustion Optimization Methods in Pulverised Coal Fired Boiler", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.5, Issue 3, pp.70-77, July 2017, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDR1703010.pdf