Experimental and Modelling Study on Emission of Volatile Nitrogen Derived NO during Pressured Oxy-fuel Combustion under Wet Flue Gas Environment

Pressurised oxy-fuel combustion (POFC) is a clean and efficient combustion technology with great potential. Due to the recycling of flue gas, the concentration of steam in the flue gas is higher than that of conventional combustion, which enriches the free radical pool in the flue gas and thus affects the emission of gaseous pollutants. Therefore, further research into the effect of high steam concentrations on NOx emission mechanisms in POFC is necessary. In this work, a fixed-bed reactor was used to conduct combustion experiments of volatiles and combined with chemical kinetic models to study the NO release characteristics for different pressures and steam concentrations in an O-2/CO2 atmosphere at 800/900 & DEG;C temperature. The results of the study indicated that the volatile nitrogen comes from the pyrolysis of part of pyrrole, pyridine, and all quaternary nitrogen in coal. The increase in temperature promoted the formation of NO during combustion. Higher pressure affects the main reaction pathway for NO formation, promoting NO consumption by HCCO and C2O groups while enhancing the overall NO reduction. Steam promoted NO consumption by NCO. In addition, steam increased the amount of H/OH groups during the reaction, which affected both NO formation and consumption. However, from the overall effect, the steam still inhibits the emission of NO.