Euler-Euler and Euler-Lagrange Modeling of Wood Gasification in Fluidized Beds

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1 Euler-Euler and Euler-Lagrange Modeling of Wood Gasification in Fluidized Beds Michael Oevermann Stephan Gerber Frank Behrendt Berlin Institute of Technology Faculty III: School of Process Sciences and Engineering Department of Energy Engineering Chair for Energy Process Engineering and Conversion Technologies for Renewable Energies Fasanenstr. 89, Berlin, Germany CFB-9, May 13-16, 2008, Hamburg

2 Overview Motivation Modeling approaches Euler-Lagrange / Discrete Element Method (DEM) Euler-Euler Results Summary and outlook

3 Motivation - simulation of wood gasification Renewed interest in producing gas from biomass Gasification in fluidized bed reactors Lack of detailed knowledge about the complex interactions between heterogeneous reactions and the fluid mechanics in fluidized beds Develop closure laws for large scale models

4 CFD modeling for particulate flow Continuum models Euler-Lagrange tractable problem size computational cost DNS

5 Euler-Lagrange model Basis: OpenFOAM ( Modules: 1 Solver for the gasphase (OpenFoam) 2 Lagrangian particle tracking / DEM (OpenFOAM) 3 Particle combustion / gasification model (here: simple zero dimensional particle model)

6 Euler-Lagrange model gasphase Mass / momentum balance: (ρɛ) t + ɛρu = ɛ ρ s ρ s, Q s, ρ α,s (ɛρu) t + {ɛρuu} + p τ + ɛρg = F s Energy / species balance: (ρɛe) t + [(ρe + p)ɛu] + q = Q s (ρɛuy α ) t + [ρɛy α u] ɛẇ α = ɛ ρ α,s

7 Euler-Lagrange model particle tracking Equation of motion for every single particle m i d v i dt + v i dm i dt = j F ij J i d ω dt + ω dj i dt = j M ij Fluid dynamic forces ( drag, buoyant, Magnus, etc.) with empirical correlations Contact forces via spring-damper modell Multiple particle contacts possible

8 Euler-Lagrange contact forces by DEM (Cundall & Strack, 1979) i k n η t j k t η n µ t F ij n = k n δ n + η n v ij n F t ij = min ( µ t F n ij t, η t v t ij )

9 Euler-Lagrange model coupling F s, Q si, ε Gas phase (Eulerian) ρ g, v g, ω g, Tg Solid phase inert reacting ρ g ( x, t), v g ( x, t) T g ( x, t), Y g s ( x, t) (Lagrangian) r si (t), v si (t) ω pi (t),t si si (t), Q r sr (t), v sr (t) ω pr (t) Q p, ṁ p s R p, ṁ φ (e. g. T p, Y p s ) Detailed single particle model (1d) R p (t), m p (t), T p (t) ṁs(t), p Q p (t) Particle library R p (t; φ), m p (t), T p (t; φ) ṁs(t; p φ), Q p (t; φ)

10 Euler-Euler model Public Domain Code MFIX ( 1 gas phase 3 solid phases: wood (4mm), 2 x charcoal (1mm, 2mm) 5 homogeneous gas phase reactions (rev.), 4 heterogeneous reactions carbon Models for primary and secondary pyrolysis

11 Gas phase chemistry Simple reaction mechanism Species: H 2, O 2, N 2, CO, CO 2, CH 4, H 2 O, tar 1. 2 CO + O 2 2 CO H 2 + O 2 2 H 2 O 3. 2 CH O 2 2 CO + 4 H 2 O 4. CO + H 2 O H 2 + CO 2 5. CH 4 + H 2 O CO + 3 H 2

12 Pyrolysis / heterogeneous reactions Primary pyrolysis (Grönli, Melan (2000)) wood H 2 O(g), CO(g), CO 2 (g), H 2 (g), CH 4 (g), tar(g), char(s). Secondary pyrolysis (Boroson et al. (1989)) tar CO(g), CO 2 (g), H 2 (g), CH 4 (g), tar inert. Heterogeneous reactions C + O 2 CO 2 (Ross and Davidson(1982)) C + CO 2 2 CO (Biggs and Agarwal(1997)) C + H 2 O CO + H 2 (Hobbs et al. (1992)) C + 2 H 2 CH 4 (Hobbs et al. (1992))

13 Reactor at the department Gasfilter Ø134 product gas outlet Holzdosierung Reaktor Gasbrenner 50 Holzzufuhr Ø fuel inlet Ø 50 air

14 Reactor at the department

15 Ø134 Reactor inlet boundaries product gas outlet wood inflow: wood T = 150 C, v = 0.08 cm/s bulk density g/cm air inflow: fuel inlet Ø 50 Ø 95 gas species 21% O 2, 79% N 2 42 T = 400 C, v = 25 cm/s air

16 Results - Euler-Euler model play play

17 Results exhaust gas composition Tar CO2 CO H2O CH4 Time / s

18 Results - Euler-Euler model Vol % hydrogen carbon monoxide 0,25 carbon dioxide hydrocarbons Experiments Simulations 0,2 0,15 0,1 0,05 0 E1 E2 E3 E4 E5 E6 E7 E8 E9 E10 E11 E12 E13 E14 E15 E16 E17 S1 S2

19 Euler-Lagrange / DEM results Model assumptions: proportional particle massloss and shrinking transient calculation of particle mass-loss and energy no heterogeneous reaction (in progress) no particle-particle heat transfer no radiation

20 Euler-Lagrange / DEM results play play

21 Summary and outlook Euler-Lagrange and Euler-Euler model for wood gasification in fluidized beds Euler-Euler: reasonable agreement with experimental data Euler-Lagrange: allows detailed investigation of particle/chemistry/gas phase interactions Refined chemistry Parallelization of the DEM modell Quantitative comparison between Euler-Euler, Euler-Lagrange/DEM und experiments Coupling Euler-Lagrange with Euler-Euler methods

22 The financial support of the Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU) is gratefully acknowledged!

23 Governing equations Euler-Euler model Species mass balance gas phase t (ɛ gρ g Y gs ) + (ɛ g ρ g v g Y gs ) = (D gs Y gs ) + R gs Mass balance solid phase t (ɛ mρ m Y ms ) + (ɛ m ρ m v sm Y ms ) = (D ms Y ms ) + R ms

24 Governing equations Euler-Euler model Momentum balance solid phase t (ɛ mρ m v m )+ (ɛ m ρ m v m v m ) = ε m p m + τ m n m l=1 l m Iml + I gm +ɛ m ρ m g

25 Governing equations Euler-Euler model Energy balance gas phase ɛ g ρ g c pg ( Tg t ) N m ( ) + v g T g = q g + γ gm Tm T g Hg m=1 Energy balance solid phases ɛ m ρ m c pm ( Tm t + v m T m ) = q m γ gm ( Tm T g ) Hm

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