CFD modeling of stripper ash cooler of circulating fluidized bed boiler

Abstract

The stable operation of a bottom ash cooler is vital for the operation of the circulating fluidized bed boiler. To assess, the stability of the ash cooler, it is important to have a thorough understanding of the flow behaviour. Although, many experimental results been reported in literature, CFD modelling of the ash cooler has not been carried out. In this paper, the transient computational analysis of a novel stripper ash cooler has been carried out using the Eulerian–Eulerian multiphase approach. The phase coupled SIMPLE algorithm has been used to solve the multiphase equations and the Gidaspow drag model has been employed to model the interaction between the fluidized air and ash. Two cases have been analysed in this paper. In the first case, the filling of the ash in the cooler has been analysed and in the second case, the phenomenon of fluidized bed bubbling in the ash cooler has been simulated. The study the of flow characteristics of hot ash has been studied. The contours of temperature, phase volume and bubbling have been analyzed in this paper.