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oy-pr-- 1?) UDC 669.162.2 669.014 REPORT 181 STUDY ON RACEWAY Liao Dongsheng, Mannila Paivi & Harkki Jouko UNIVERSITY OULU DEPARTMENT OF PROCESS ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY OF OULU OULU, FINLAND 1996 ISBN 951-42-4371-4 ISSN 0783-7747 DISfBSMrKM OF THIS DOCUMENT IS UMtMTED DISCLAIMER Portions of this document may be illegible in electronic image products. Images are produced from the best available original document Total model on raceway phenomena which authors are doing is a part of research project-Gas Phase Reactions in Blast Furnace, the project is from the national Finnish SULA programme. This report is a literature study on the raceway phenomena before author do the raceway model. The model will focus on the investigation of oil combution in the conditions of the raceway. The aim is to look for the way further increasing the amount of injected oil ABSTRACT STUDY ON RACEWAY Liao Dongsheng, Mannila Paivi & Harkki Jouko To clarify the raceway phenomena, much research has been done. Being a literature study on the raceway phenomena, this report summarizes some research achievements which have been published. First, the dynamic condition forming raceway and the dynamics of raceway are presented, when the blast air velocity exceeds the terminal velocity of coke particle, a raceway zone will be formed in front of the tuyere. After the blast air enters the raceway, its dynamics parameters (i.e., velocity, pressure, temperature, density) change greatly along the central line of tuyere. Then, the factors influencing the formation of raceway are described, it shows that the shape and size of raceway were dependent on the blast air conditions and structure of coke burden. The dynamics characteristics of gas under injection of auxilary fuel are also described. Based on observation and measurement results on the raceway, dynamic phenomena of coke in raceway, conditions near raceway and chemical reactions taking place in raceway are presented. The last, two kinds of mathematical models simulating the raceway phenomena are introduced, one type is based on radiation strength, the other is based on chemical reaction kinetics and fluid flow. CONTENTS Abstract Introduction...................................................................................................1 1 Dynamic Condition Forming Raceway................................................. 1 2 Dynamics of Raceway Formation.......................................................... 3 3 Factors Affecting the Formation of Raceway.....................................10 3.1 Effects of diameter of tuyere and velocity of blast........................................ 10 3.2 Effect of structure of coke burden ...................................................................11 3.3 Effect of comprehensive blast............................................................................ 12 4 Observation and Measurement on Raceway........................................13 4.1 Dynamic behavior of coke in raceway..............................................................13 4.2 Condition near raceway...................................................................................... 15 4.3 Chemical reactions in raceway........................................................................... 15 5 Dynamic Characteristics of Gas under Fuel Injection........................ 17 6 Mathematical Model of the Raceway...................................................20 6.1 Raceway model based on radiation strength....................................................20 6.2 Raceway model based on reaction kinetics and fluid flow .............................23 6.3 Solution procedure ..............................................................................................30 References 33 Introduction The effect of a high velocity gas jet which is submerged in a packed bed is to establish a region of high voidage (or cavity). In blast furnaces, such regions formed by the blast of hot air at velocities of 100-300 m/s are called raceway. Coke and auxiliary fuel injected into blast furnace through tuyere pyrolysis, bum and form gases in the raceway. The ascending gases transfer heat to the the descending burden, drops of molten iron and slag, and provide reducing agent for the reduction of iron oxides. Therefore, the formation of raceway in front of the tuyere will greatly affect the distribution of reducing gases, evenly descent of burden and the transfer processes of heat and mass. It is very important for blast furnace operators to have the knowledge about the phenomena in the raceway. In particularly, at present, the analysis of the combustion of supplementary fuels injected into blast furnaces requires a more detailed study of the flow in the raceway as well as the distribution of the gas flow through the raceway boundary as these determine the time available for combustion. On the above points, the raceway has long been investigated by many research works. The studies on mechanism of the raceway formation, size and shape of the raceway have been carried out by use of cold and hot models and experimental and commercial blast furnaces. With the aid of high-speed camera and endoscope, the dynamic behavior of coke in the raceway have been studied, for example, it investigated the movement of coke, size distribution and quantity of coke particle into the raceway, speed of coke and the depth of raceway. The probes having a gas sampling hole have been used to measure the composition distribution of gases, according to the measuring results, the combustion behavior and chemical reactions taking place in the raceway have also been studied. Through dissecting the quenched blast furnace, the condition near the raceway have been analysed. All these research were based on observation and measurement. Since 1950, with the development of computational technology, mathematical model method has been widely used to investigate the raceway phenomena and many mathematical models on raceway phenomena have been published. This report summarizes briefly the studing achievements on raceway phenomena from the following parts: First, the dynamic condition forming raceway and raceway dynamics will be described. Secondly, the factors affecting the raceway dynamics and the condition near the raceway are represented. Last, two kinds of mathematical models simulating the raceway phenomena are summaried. 1. Dynamic Condition of Raceway Formation The raceway is a cavity in front of the tuyere, coke particles move in a form of recirculation in it, the dynamic condition for the formation of the raceway is that the velocity of blast air (ub) must exceed the terminal velocity of coke particle (ut). i.e: III Ub>Ut l The terminal velocity of coke particle can be calculated through the following force balance equation: III ndl n ■(Pc ~Pg)~ Q>t^<2 —p (1.1) cmax 2 where p is density, d is diameter of coke particle, Co is resistance coefficient. Subscripts: g stands for gas, c is coke. Co is based on the motion of coke particle, therefore, Co —f(Re). The terminal velocity of coke particle under different conditions has been calculated through equation(l.l). Fig. 1.1 shows that the maximum terminal velocity of coke particle does not exceed 36 m/s (ut < 36 m/s) under modem blast furnace operation. In fact, the hot blast enters the furnace through the tuyere at a velocity (tit,) of 200-300 m/s. i.e: /!/ Ub»Ut Therefore, the dynamic condition for the formation of the raceway cavity is fully attained. 0.02 0.04 0.06 0.08 de »® pg - density of fluid Fig. 1.1 Relationship between the terminal velocity ut and particle diameter dc /!/. 2 2. Dynamics of Raceway Formation The blast jet entering the raceway has the characteristics of a limited jet besides the common characterics of free jet, momentum decreases gradually and pressure increases in the direction of proceeding of blast jet. The change of pressure and the effects of resistance and inertia make the blast flow move entraining coke lumps in form of recirculation. Fig. 2.1 shows the distribution of static pressure at theboundary of raceway. Inside the raceway, due to the hurtle of blast with coke, an intensive turbulency is generated, a part of momentum of blast air is transfered to static pressure, thus the static pressure coefficent increases from 130 to 160 at the boundary of the raceway 111. P- static pressure, p- density of gas Fig. 2.1 Distribution of static pressure at the boundary of raceway /2/. Viewing the axis of tuyere as the circulating axis of raceway, 0 is the initial circulatlating angle. A relationship between distribution coefficent of static pressure and 9 can be seen from Fig. 2.2, a static pressure peak occurs near the position of 0=160 °C. At the same time, some relationships between the peak and depth of raceway exist, the velocity of gas decreases as the increase of depth of the raceway at the hurlting position of the blast, and, the peak decreases also. Considering the position of peak, the axis of the raceway is above the horizontal line of the raceway. Ill C,=(P-P0)/(x>o 2/2) Fig. 2.2 Distribution coefficent of static pressure venus angle Z2Z 3 According to momentum law, decrease of momentum per unit time should be equal to thesum of pressure and resistances. For a limited jet, the following equation is valid 737. (2.1) Where m0. p0 are mass,velocity and pressure of blast at entrance cross section respectively, Uj, pi are velocity and pressure of blast at exit cross section. R is energy lose of jet flow due to diffuse and entrain coke. Fig. 2.3 shows the