In response to current issues faced by coal-fired power plants
such as high fuel costs
weakly stable combustion performance at low loads
and insufficient peak-shaving capabilities
an integrated operational scheme is proposed based on the natural endowments of renewable energy surrounding the power plant
which utilizes photovoltaic power generation distributed in plants to produce hydrogen and oxygen via electrolysis of water
then to achieve hydrogen and oxygen co-firing in coal-fired boilers. By constructing a full-size
numerical model for a tangentially coal-fired boiler
the calculation accuracy of temperature field
species concentration
and carbon content in fly ash is verified under pure pulverized coal combustion conditions
which could provide a benchmark for optimization of hydrogen and oxygen blending. Based on the typical application scenario of a 20 MW photovoltaic power generation to hydrogen and oxygen production in the plant
the effects of three mixing methods of hydrogen and oxygen on combustion efficiency
burnout characteristics and NO
x
formation in the furnace are systematically studied. The results show that
a co-combustion mode which utilizes an independent hydrogen nozzle in conjunction with primary air mixing with oxygen can improve the combustion performance significantly. The carbon content in fly ash at the furnace outlet reduces to 0.97%
and the combustion efficiency is notably enhanced compared with that under pure coal combustion condition. At the same time
the reduction effect of reactive species generated by hydrogen combustion on NO
x
leads to a decrease in NO
x
emission mass concentration in the flue gas to 294.0 mg/m
3
which is decreased by about 25% compared with that under baseline condition of pure coal combustion. This model achieves dual-benefit of coal substitution and combustion optimization through hydrogen and oxygen production from renewable energy
which not only reduces coal consumption but also expands the lower limit of stable combustion load for coal-fired boilers. It provides a technically feasible implementation reference path for the decarbonized retrofitting and flexibility improvement of coal-fired units.
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