This paper describes the activities carried out for the development and the
use of CRFD codes and related procedures for the design of industrial furn
aces. The objective is to predict the emission of pollutants, such as nitro
gen oxides, in combustion flue gases. This prediction may be correctly acco
mplished using a detailed kinetic mechanism, which cannot be directly imple
mented on CRFD codes due to actual computational limits (both in terms of m
emory and CPU time consumption). A new approach has been developed: analysi
ng the 3D CRFD flow fields, an "equivalent" chemical reactors network model
is extracted with corresponding residence time distributions and overall r
eactor properties, and the detailed kinetic calculation is performed on thi
s simpler scheme.
The approach has been successfully applied to different scale of furnaces s
uch as pilot plants and industrial boilers, low-NOx burners and glass furna
ces.
In the papers a description of the CRFD codes is given, and the methodology
to extract a chemical ideal reactor network from CFRD fields is presented.
Finally, an application of the procedure on the Monfalcone #3 steam genera
tor is discussed.