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Nongray EWB and WSGG Radiation Modeling in Oxy-Fuel Environments

Osama A. Marzouk·E. David Huckaby
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According to a recent U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory (1), about 42% of 2008 CO$_2$ (a greenhouse gas) emissions in the US were from burning fossil fuels (especially coal) to generate electricity. The 2010 U.S. International Energy Outlook (2) predicts that the world energy generation using coal and natural gas will continue to increase steadily in the future. This results in increased concentrations of atmospheric CO$_2$, and calls for serious efforts to control its emissions from power plants through carbon capture technologies. Oxy-fuel combustion is a carbon capture technology in which the fossil fuel is burned in an atmosphere free from nitrogen, thereby significantly reducing the relative amount of N$_2$ in the flue-gas and increasing the mole fractions of H$_2$O and CO$_2$. This low concentration of N$_2$ facilitates the capture of CO$_2$. The dramatic change in the flue composition results in changes in its thermal, chemical, and radiative properties. From the modeling point of view, existing transport, combustion, and radiation models that have parameters tuned for air-fuel combustion (where N$_2$ is the dominant gaseous species in the flue) may need revision to improve the predictions of numerical simulations of oxy-fuel combustion. In this chapter, we consider recent efforts done to revise radiation modeling for oxy-fuel combustion, where five new radiative-property models were proposed to be used in oxy-fuel environments. All these models use the weighted-sum-of-gray-gases model (WSGGM). We apply and compare their performance in two oxy-fuel environments. Both environments consist of only H$_2$O and CO$_2$ as mixture species, and thus there is no N$_2$ dilution, but the environments vary in the mole fractions of these two species.

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Osama A. Marzouk, E. David Huckaby. 2024-11-24. Nongray EWB and WSGG Radiation Modeling in Oxy-Fuel Environments. https://doi.org/10.5772/24669

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