mehdi boghrati

Despite its great impact on economic progress, the cement industry produces a variety of environmental pollutants, including NOx, carbon dioxide, and carbon monoxide, the release of which can cause serious damage to the environment. In the meantime, the biggest impact of this industry on the environment is related to its burners, and the present research was written with the aim of investigating the effect of the location of calciner burners on reducing the emission of environmental pollutants in Qaen Cement Factory. The research method in the current research is quantitative, and in order to numerically investigate the effect of two positions for calciner burners in the lower part (main position) and in the upper part on the emission of pollutants, was used Ansys Fluent 2022 software. The findings of the research show that the Qaen cement factory in the calciner section is facing the problem of incomplete combustion, which has led to the production of carbon monoxide instead of carbon dioxide. In addition to reducing temperature and increasing fuel consumption, this incomplete combustion causes the production of significant carbon monoxide, which destroys the environment. Also, the results indicate that in the upper burner mode, due to the reduction in the chance of fuel and air mixing, the combustion becomes incomplete and the emission of carbon monoxide increases, but the production of Nox decreases due to the decrease in the combustion temperature.

The particles and atoms of carbon significantly affect radiation heat transfer and combustion behavior of flames. Number of carbon particles within the flame is increased by utilizing fuel with higher C/H mass ratio or adding carbon particles into lighter liquid fuel. In this study, the effect of adding various concentrations of multi-walled carbon nanotubes with hydroxyl functional group into hydrocarbon liquid fuel has been measured on temperature distribution and thermal radiation of the flame. Furthermore, the measured results compared with results of combustion behavior of liquid fuels with higher C/H value. The thermopile sensor and the lux meter were utilized to measure the flame thermal radiation (visible and infrared spectrum) and luminosity (visible wavelengths). Thermography technic and IR image were applied to determine the distribution of temperature and soot within the flame. The results showed that adding nanoparticles into liquid fuel increased the rate of chemical reaction kinetics, temperature and thermal radiation and decreased flame length. In addition, a rise in value of C/H of the liquid fuel increased temperature, flame length and thermal radiation and reduced the rate of chemical reaction kinetics. By adding 0.01% mass fraction of nanoparticles into the base fuel with C/H=5.46, thermal radiation increased by 3.4% as same as liquid fuel with C/H=5.52. The increase of nanoparticle concentrations increased the rate of chemical reaction kinetics, maximum temperature, thermal radiation and luminosity. In addition, the position of maximum temperature moved closer to the burner.