Partic. vol. 3 no. 6 pp. 373-378 (December 2005)
doi: 10.1016/S1672-2515(07)60217-6

Numerical simulation for a process analysis of a coke oven

Zhancheng Guo^*, Huiqing Tang

guozc@home.ipe.ac.cn

Abstract

A computational fluid dynamic model is established for a coking process analysis of a coke oven using PHOENICS CFD package. The model simultaneously calculates the transient composition, temperatures of the gas and the solid phases, velocity of the gas phase and porosity and density of the semi-coke phase. Numerical simulation is illustrated in predicting the evolution of volatile gases, gas flow paths, profiles of density, porosity of the coke oven charge, profiles of temperatures of the coke oven gas and the semi-coke bed. On the basis of above modeling, the flow of coke oven gas (COG) blown from the bottom of the coke oven into the porous semi-coke bed is simulated to reveal whether or not and when the blown COG can uniformly flow through the porous semi-coke bed for the purpose of desulfurizing the semi-coke by recycling the COG. The simulation results show that the blown COG can uniformly flow through the semi-coke bed only after the temperature at the center of the semi-coke bed has risen to above 900°C.

Keywords

coal carbonization; flow in porous media; desulfurization of coke