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Investigation on Combustion Characteristics of Sewage Sludge using Pilot-scale Bubbling Fluidized Bed Reactor

파일럿 규모 기포 유동층 반응기를 이용한 하수 슬러지 연소 특성 분석

  • Kim, Donghee (Korea Institute of Industrial Technology) ;
  • Huh, Kang Y. (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology) ;
  • Ahn, Hyungjun (Korea Institute of Industrial Technology) ;
  • Lee, Youngjae (Korea Institute of Industrial Technology)
  • Received : 2017.07.06
  • Accepted : 2017.08.29
  • Published : 2017.09.30
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Abstract

To estimate the combustion characteristics of sewage sludge and wood pellet, thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) was conducted. As TGA results, combustion characteristics of sewage sludge was worse than wood pellet. In ash fusion temperature (AFT) analysis, slagging tendency of sewage sludge is very high compared to wood pellet. And also, the bubbling fluidized bed reactor with a inner diameter 400 mm and a height of 4300 mm was used for experimental study of combustion characteristics fueled by sewage sludge and wood pellet. The facility consists of a fluidized bed reactor, preheater, screw feeder, cyclone, ash capture equipment and gas analyzer. The thermal input of sewage sludge cases were $54.5{\sim}96.5kW_{th}$, in case of wood pellet experiment, it was $96.1kW_{th}$. As experiment results, the $NO_x$ emission of sewage sludge was averagely about 10 times the $NO_x$ emission of wood pellet. And also CO emission of sewage sludge is about 3.5 times of wood pellet. Lastly as a result of analysis of captured ash in cyclone, the combustion efficiency of all cases were over 99%, but the potential for slagging/fouling was high at all cases by component analysis of ash.

하수 슬러지 고형연료 및 우드 펠렛의 연소 특성을 평가 하기 위하여 열중량 분석(TGA), 회 융점(AFT) 분석, 그리고 회분 성분 분석을 수행하였다. TGA 분석 결과, 하수 슬러지 고형연료의 연소성이 우드 펠렛에 비해 상대적으로 좋지 않았다. 또한 AFT 분석을 통해 하수 슬러지 고형연료의 슬래깅 가능성이 매우 높은 것을 확인하였다. 또한 연소성 평가를 위해 pilot-scale 기포 유동층 반응기를 적용하였으며, 장치는 예열기, 유동층 반응기, 연료 공급장치, 사이클론, 회분 포집 장치, 그리고 가스분석기로 구성되었다. 반응기는 직경 400 mm, 높이 4300 mm이며, 하수 슬러지는 $54.5{\sim}96.5kW_{th}$의 열량으로 실험을 수행하였고 우드 펠렛은 $96.1kW_{th}$ 실험을 수행하였다. 실험 결과, 하수 슬러지 고형연료 연소의 경우 평균적으로 우드 펠렛의 연소 보다 배기가스 중 $NO_x$는 10.1배, CO는 3.5배 높았다. 또한 사이클론에서 포집한 회분을 분석한 결과, 모든 실험 조건에서 연소 효율은 99% 이상이었고, 회분의 성분 분석을 통해 슬래깅/파울링 가능성이 높은 것을 확인하였다.

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