Flow Field and Combustion Characteristics of Natural Gas inside a Gas Turbine Combustor | ||||
| Port-Said Engineering Research Journal | ||||
| Article 3, Volume 17, Issue 2 - Serial Number 1110, September 2013, Page 18-29 PDF (1.03 MB) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/pserj.2013.46922 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Ibrahim Abdel-Rahman1; Mohamed Shaaban2; Mohamed Shehata2; Tharwat Farag2 | ||||
| 1Department of Mechanical Power Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Port Said University, Egypt | ||||
| 2Mechanical Power Engineering, Port Said University | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| The present work is numerical simulat ion results from the modeling of a non-premixed natural gas flame performed in a combustor model. CFD studies using FLUENT code were carried out for different air swirl numbers and inlet thermal load with constant A/F. The isothermal flow field was simulated using (SST) k-ω turbulence model and the reacting flow was simulated by the non-premixed combustion model with the P-1 radiation model available in the computational fluid dynamics package Fluent 6.3. The model geometry was created and meshing arrangement was generated using Gambit pre-processing software. The domain of the model was based on the dimension of the combustor and burners. The case studied is a cylindrical enclosure of 0.1 m radius and 1.0 m length. Two reactant streams emerge from two separate coaxial jets producing a swirling diffusion flame. The natural gas is issued axially into the combustor from the annulus area between the swirler outer diameter and the burner hub diameter whereas the combustion air is introduced through an annular swirler having uniform swirl vanes. The results show a reasonable agreement of the measured and the calculated reverse flow zone sizes using the shear stress transport (SST) k -ω model. The boundary of the reverse flow zone for weak air swirl number of 0.5 is formed completely inside the combustor with closed loop, while for air swirl numbers of 0.87 and 1.5 the boundaries fill the combustor and its size increased as the air swirl number increased. Increasing the air swirl number, the high temperature regions size, the flame length, and the CO2 and CO concentrations decreased while the O2 concentration increased. Increasing the thermal load, the high temperature regions size, the flame length, CO2 and CO concentrations increased, while the O2 concentration decreased. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Swirl number; Gas Turbine Combustor; Diffusion flame; Reverse flow zone and Natural gas combustion | ||||
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