MODELING CHAR OXIDATION AS A FUNCTION OF PRESSURE ...

MODELING CHAR OXIDATION AS A FUNCTION OF PRESSURE ... MODELING CHAR OXIDATION AS A FUNCTION OF PRESSURE ...

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8. Summary and Conclusions The objective of this project was to develop a model that can be used to explain and unify char oxidation rates over wide ranges of experimental conditions, including temperature, total pressure, oxygen mole fraction and particle size. A secondary objective of this work was to explore how the apparent reaction order of char oxidation changes with experimental conditions. The theoretical challenge in carbonaceous solid combustion, known as the rough sphere combustion phenomenon, was also explored. The accomplishments are summarized and conclusions are drawn below. Analytical Solutions of the Effectiveness Factors Bischoff (1965) proposed a so-called “general asymptotic solution” for predicting the effectiveness factor for an arbitrary rate form. Based on the work of Bischoff, a general modulus (Eq. 2.30) was obtained in this study for the Langmuir rate equation. This is the first time that the general modulus for the Langmuir rate equation has been applied to char oxidation. The asymptotic solutions of the effectiveness factors for both the Langmuir rate equation and the m-th order rate equation were examined by comparison with numerical solutions. It was found that the general asymptotic solutions lead to errors as high as 17% in the intermediate range of the Thiele modulus. A correction function was developed to improve the accuracy of the general asymptotic solutions. The corrected 121

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