Conference Name:4th WSEAS Int. Conf. on HEAT TRANSFER, THERMAL ENGINEERING and ENVIRONMENT
A multi-fuel swirl-stabilized laboratory burner of 100kW total thermal input has been developed,
designed as a scale model of a 110MW coal burner. This paper presents a computational investigation of the
combusting flow field produced by the laboratory burner under varying aerodynamic conditions. The
numerical predictions were compared with measured quantities in terms of velocities and temperatures at
various distances away from the burner exit. Three turbulence models were tested, while for the combustion
modeling, the non-premixed approach incorporating the mixture-fraction concept was employed. Satisfactory
agreement between measured and predicted quantities was achieved, especially by applying the RNG k-ε and
the Realizable k-ε turbulence models.