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Nitrogenous Gas Emissions from Coal/Biomass Co-combustion under High Oxygen Concentration in Circulating Fluidized Bed Xin Wang, Qiangqiang Ren, Wei Li, Haoyu Li, Shiyuan Li, and Qinggang Lu Energy Fuels, Just Accepted Manuscript • DOI: 10.1021/acs.energyfuels.6b03141 • Publication Date (Web): 23 Jan 2017 Downloaded from http://pubs.acs.org on January 23, 2017

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Nitrogenous Gas Emissions from Coal/Biomass Co-combustion under

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High Oxygen Concentration in Circulating Fluidized Bed

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Xin Wang a, b, Qiangqiang Ren*, a, Wei Li a, Haoyu Li a, Shiyuan Li a, Qinggang Lu a

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Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, People’s

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Republic of China b

University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, People’s Republic of China

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Abstract: Oxy-fuel combustion of coal/biomass is able to realize negative CO2 emission.

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Increasing the total oxygen concentration in oxy-fuel combustion surely reduces the scale and cost

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of the flue gas recirculation system. The increase of total oxygen concentration leads to

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considerable changes in the emission characteristics of nitrogenous gases (nitrogen oxides and

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their precursors). Here coal/biomass co-combustion tests were conducted in a 0.1MW oxy-fuel

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circulating fluidized bed combustion apparatus to investigate nitrogenous gas emissions from

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oxy-fuel combustion of coal/biomass under high total oxygen concentration (50%). HCN was also

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detected in the flue gas besides NO and N2O especially in the mixed fuel tests. A lower excess

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oxygen ratio led to less NO and N2O emission, the same as conventional air combustion. The

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secondary flow ratio affected emissions of nitrogenous gases depending on fuel types and

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atmospheres. Under the same total oxygen concentration, a higher oxygen concentration in the

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primary flow led to lower emissions of HCN and N2O. The increase of straw share significantly

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improved the NO, N2O and HCN emissions. O2/RFG combustion released less nitrogenous gases

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than O2/CO2 combustion thanks to its longer residence and reaction time. Temperature rise

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increased NO emission, but reduced N2O and HCN emissions significantly.

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Keywords: Coal; Biomass: Oxy-fuel co-combustion; CFB; Nitrogenous gases

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1. Introduction

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The carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology helps with the CO2 emission reduction

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and low-carbon economy development in China. Among various CCS techniques, the oxy-fuel

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combustion (O2/CO2) technology shows obvious advantage, feasibility and low cost

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technology is also suitable for current technological and industrial levels, so it is able to transform

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the existing combustion systems 1, 2. The biomass utilization technology is considered as zero CO2

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emission. The biomass-CCS (Bio-CCS) technology, combining the biomass utilization technology

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and the CCS technology, is used to capture and store the CO2 formed during biomass utilization,

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which is characteristic of negative CO2 emission 3.

1, 2

. This

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Biomass fuels are rich in alkali metals (e.g. K and Na), but their direct combustion is limited by

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agglomeration and corrosion problems 4-6. During co-combustion of biomass fuels and coal, alkali

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metals react with some elements in coal (e.g. Al and S) to form high-melting-point compounds,

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thus aggravating agglomeration and corrosion 7, 8. Moreover, retrofitting an existing conventional

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plant to a co-combustion plant is lower-cost than building a new dedicated biomass-fired plant

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technology

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high combustion stability and efficiency. Furthermore, co-combustion can be operated in a flexible

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mode, which minimizes the fluctuating supply of biomass and secures the power generation 9. At

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present, a number of coal/biomass co-combustion power plants have been successfully running for

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years, and their co-combustion technology is completely mature 10-15. In these plants, the biomass

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fuels are mainly agricultural straw, waste wood, industrial sludge, and living garbage, while the

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co-combustion equipment consists of a pulverized coal furnace, a layer gas boiler

. For fossil energy utilization systems, coal/biomass co-combustion is a low-cost and low-risk for

CO2

reduction and

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circulating fluidized bed (CFB) boiler. These successful power plants provide experience and

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reference for promotion of the coal/biomass co-combustion technology.

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Compared with the air combustion mode, the oxy-fuel combustion of coal/biomass is still at the

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laboratory or pilot stage. Canmet Energy Technology Centre in Canada built a 0.8 MW CFB

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experimental system and conducted many tests of oxy-fuel combustion of coal/biomass

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found the mixed fuel could be stably burnt in the oxygen-enriched (O2/CO2) atmosphere and the

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flue gas contained up to 90% CO2 or more. Meanwhile, oxy-fuel combustion of coal/biomass is a

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viable negative CO2 emission technology. Fundación CIUDEN, Spanish Government, built the

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largest and most powerful multi-functional oxy-fuel combustion test system, with the technical

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support from Foster Wheeler 18, 19. Compared with the air combustion mode, the CIUDEN CFB

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oxy-fuel combustion system reduced 91% CO2 emission and realized the negative CO2 emission if

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20% biomass was mixed 19.

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Research on oxy-combustion of coal/biomass mixtures and research on the conversion rules of

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combustion-produced nitrogen oxides are both at the preliminary phase. Combustion tests and

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numerical simulation both showed the addition of sawdust could reduce the nitrogen content in the

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mixed fuel, but increased the NO conversion during the co-combustion in O2/N2 and O2/CO2

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atmospheres

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chars showed that CO had a more significant influence on NO conversion at 850 °C than at

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1050-1150 °C 23. A series of coal/biomass co-combustion tests in a CFB furnace showed that NOx

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and SO2 emissions were reduced in the co-combustion condition thanks to low fuel nitrogen

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content in the biomass fuel

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atmosphere did not clearly reflect the real nitrogen content, and the fuel-nitrogen to NOx

20-22

. A study on NO formation during oxy-fuel combustion of coal and biomass

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. NOx emissions from coal-bagasse burning in an O2/CO2

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conversion was between 20%-50% in all test cases

. Shandong University in China tested the

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oxy-fuel combustion of coal/biomass in a tube reactor and found the NO release was decreased in

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the O2/CO2 atmosphere as the mixing ratio of wheat straw and other biomass increased

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the same O2 concentration, NO release during the coal/biomass co-combustion in the O2/CO2

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atmosphere was reduced than in the O2/N2 atmosphere. Oxy-fuel combustion tests of coal mixed

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with Chinese biomass in a 10 kW CFB combustion system showed that the fuel-N to NO

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conversion depended on the H/N ratio in fuel and that oxygen staging effectively reduced NO

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emissions under the condition of higher oxygen concentration 28.

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In a word, research on nitrogen conversion in coal/biomass co-combustion was mainly carried

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out in the traditional air atmosphere or in an oxy-fuel atmosphere with relatively low total oxygen

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concentration (about 30%). As for oxy-fuel combustion, there is a lack of systematic tests on

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coal/biomass co-combustion, and the findings on the release amount of nitrogen oxide during the

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oxy-fuel combustion of coal/biomass are inconsistent. Moreover, increasing the total oxygen

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concentration can reduce the scale of the flue gas recirculation system and thus significantly

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decreases the initial costs. In this study, the oxy-fuel combustion of coal biomass mixtures was

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tested in a 0.1MW oxy-fuel CFB furnace under high total oxygen concentration (50%).

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2. Materials and methods

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2.1 Fuel and material compositions

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Datong coal (a bituminous coal from Datong, Shanxi Province) and two biomass fuels (corn

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straw and wheat straw from Hebei Province) were selected. The coals and straws were milled and

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sieved to particles of 0.355-4 mm. Before tests, coals and straws were mechanically mixed at

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different proportions.

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The 2-4 mm alumina balls (2.5 kg) and 0.1-2 mm sand (3.5 kg) were mixed and used as the bed

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material. During the start-up, more sand (0.25-0.355 mm) was added to the bed, if necessary, to

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build and keep the material circulation.

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The proximate and ultimate analyses of the feedstock are illustrated in Table 1.

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Table 1. Proximate and ultimate analyses of feedstock (wt.%)

LHVar Car

Har

Oar*

Nar

Sar

Mar

Aar

Var

FCar MJ kg-1

Datong coal

58.28

3.74

8.61

1.04

0.32

1.87

26.14

27.46

44.53

22.70

Corn straw

37.99

4.64

32.85

1.10

0.16

1.26

22.00

61.34

15.40

14.10

Wheat straw

44.29

5.50

40.81

0.56

0.20

1.80

6.84

71.98

19.38

16.46

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*: by difference

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2.2 Experimental methods

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The experimental system was described in our previous works

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, and is briefly described

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here. The furnace has a total height of 6000mm and an inside diameter of 100 mm in the dense

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phase zone, which expands to 140 mm in the dilute phase zone. The furnace and the cyclone

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separator are made of refractory material, heating preservation cotton and steel shell, and four

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water tubes cool the refractory material for a total heat duty of about 70 kW. During tests, the air is

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supplied by the air compressor, CO2 is provided by CO2 cylinders with a purity of 99.5%, and O2

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is provided by a liquid cylinder with a purity of 99.6%. The primary flow inlet is located at the

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bottom of the furnace, and the height of the secondary flow gas holes is 1500 mm above the air

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distributor. Recycled flue gas (RFG) is supplied by a recirculating fan. O2 and CO2 flow rates are

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controlled by the mass meters independently. Through the combination of different gas sources,

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O2/CO2 and O2/RFG and other kinds of atmospheres are able to be achieved.

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Two screw feeders constitute the feeding. One for the fuel feeding is 600 mm above the air

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distributor, and the other for the sand feeding is 800 mm above the air distributor. Six

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thermocouples (±1oC error) are located at the height of 250 mm, 800 mm, 1520 mm, 2500 mm,

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4000 mm and 5700 mm, respectively. The oxygen concentration in the flue gas is measured by a

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zirconia oxygen analyzer. The measurement error for the O2 concentration is ±0.1%. The

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concentration of CO2, CO, SO2, N2O and NO in the flue gas is monitored on-line by an FTIR

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analyzer (GASMTE DX4000) before the bag filter. The measurement error for the CO2

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concentration is ±0.01%, while the errors for other gases (N2O, NO, HCN) concentrations were ±1

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ppm. The 0.1MW oxy-fuel CFB combustion system is shown schematically in Fig. 1.

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The coal/biomass oxy-fuel combustion tests were started in an enriched air (O2/N2) firing mode.

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When the furnace was heated to an expected temperature, the system was switched to the O2/CO2

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or O2/RFG firing mode by gradually increasing the flow rate of O2/CO2 or O2/RFG and decreasing

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the air flow rate to zero. Coal alone was used to heat up during the start-up, and then mixed fuel

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was put into the bed.

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Fig. 1 Schematic diagram of the 0.1 MW oxy-fuel CFB combustion system 29, 30

2.3 Experimental conditions

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Eighteen test cases were designed and the experimental conditions are shown in Table 2. The

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tests were aimed to investigate the effects of operation parameters on emissions of nitrogenous

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gases during CFB-based oxy-fuel co-combustion. Given the low ash fusion point of biomass, the

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biomass share in the tests was no more than 30%. All test data were normalized to mass per unit

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energy (mg/MJ) for comparison

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secondary flow, respectively. Excess oxygen ratio is defined as (actual oxygen supply per unit fuel)

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/ (theoretical oxygen demand per unit fuel) 29. Meanwhile, the error for the O2 concentration in the

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flue gas was within ±1% as a result of the fluctuation in coal feeding. Each test case would last

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one hour to get enough data (temperature, gas concentration, et al) in order to compute an average

29, 30

. Here, PF and SF are short for the primary flow and the

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Table 2. Experimental conditions during the tests

Biomass Case

Atmosphere

Coal

Setting

Excess O2

Biomass

O2 in PF/SF

share (%)

temperature (oC)

ratio (1)

PF (%)

1

O2/CO2

Datong

/

/

850

1.06

60/40

50

2

O2/CO2

Datong

WS

30

800

1.06

60/40

50

3

O2/CO2

Datong

WS

30

800

1.10

60/40

50

4

O2/CO2

Datong

WS

30

800

1.12

60/40

50

5

O2/RFG

Datong

WS

30

850

1.06

60/40

50

6

O2/RFG

Datong

WS

30

850

1.15

60/40

50

7

O2/RFG

Datong

WS

30

850

1.26

60/40

50

8

O2/CO2

Datong

CS

30

850

1.16

50/50

50

9

O2/CO2

Datong

CS

30

850

1.16

60/40

50

10

O2/CO2

Datong

CS

30

850

1.16

70/30

50

11

O2/RFG

Datong

WS

30

850

1.15

70/30

50

12

O2/CO2

Datong

CS

30

850

1.21

50/50

40

13

O2/CO2

Datong

CS

30

850

1.21

50/50

50

14

O2/CO2

Datong

CS

30

850

1.21

50/50

60

15

O2/CO2

Datong

CS

30

850

1.10

50/50

50

16

O2/CO2

Datong

CS

20

850

1.10

50/50

50

17

O2/CO2

Datong

CS

10

850

1.10

50/50

50

18

O2/CO2

Datong

WS

30

900

1.06

60/40

50

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CS: corn straw; WS: wheat straw

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2.4 Nitrogenous gases conversion knowledge

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HCN formation mainly results from the thermal cracking of volatiles and is largely affected by

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the H radical concentration, and reactions between the H radical and N-containing structures on

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the char surfaces 31, 32. NO comes from two sources: directly from oxidization of fuel-N and from

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oxidization of precursors (e.g. HCN, NH3). As reported, NO below 650 oC is mainly formed

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directly from heterogeneous reactions rather than homogeneous oxidations or from indirect

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formation during devolatilization

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devolatilization 35-37. The amine radicals, NH and NH2, are important intermediates in the NH3 to

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NO oxidation (reactions (1)-(3))

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main intermediates are HNCO and NCO (reactions (4)-(6)) 35, 38.

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35, 37, 38

. NH3 and HCN are the main products from the

. HCN is also pivotal in the NO formation, in which the

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NH3 + O / OH = NH2 + OH / H2O, EO=27.04 kJ/mol, EOH=4.00 kJ/mol (1)

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NH2 + O / OH = NH + OH / H2O, EO=0.00 kJ/mol, EOH=1.93 kJ/mol (2)

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NH + O / O2 = NO + H / OH, EO=0.00 kJ/mol, EO2=0.42 kJ/mol (3)

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HCN + O / OH = NCO / HNCO + H, EO=20.85 kJ/mol, EOH=26.79 kJ/mol (4)

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HNCO + O / OH = NCO + OH / H2O, EO=47.72 kJ/mol, EOH=15.07 kJ/mol (5)

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NCO + O / OH = NO + CO / (CO + H), EO=0.00 kJ/mol, EOH=0.00 kJ/mol (6)

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N2O can be considered as the product from the HCN and NH3 incomplete oxidation, as well as from NO reduction 35-37, 38, 40:

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NCO + NO = N2O + CO, E=3.10 kJ/mol (7)

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NH + NO = N2O + H, E=0.00 kJ/mol (8)

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-CN (solid) + NO = N2O + (-C) (9)

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-CNO (solid) + NO = N2O + (-CO) (10)

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3. Results and discussion

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3.1 Feasibility and comparison tests

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Cases 1 and case 2 were carried out to compare mono-combustion and co-combustion as well as

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to investigate the feasibility of oxy-fuel co-combustion. The fuels were Datong coal in case 1 and

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Datong coal/wheat straw (coal/straw=70/30) in case 2. Both tests were conducted in the O2/CO2

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atmosphere. During these cases, both the total oxygen concentration and primary-flow oxygen

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concentration were 50%, the excess oxygen ratio was kept at about 1.06, and the PF/SF ratio was

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60/40. Temperature profiles in the furnace and emission factors of nitrogenous gases are shown in

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Fig. 2.

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As showed in Fig. 2(b), HCN emission factor was most obvious in case 2. HCN mainly came

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from the devolatilization stage and then was oxidized to N2 or nitrogen oxides. As reported, no

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HCN was detected in the flue gas of coal mono-combustion 29, 30. The furnace in our apparatus is

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only 6 m high and the flow velocity is about 4 m/s, which largely shortens the residence time.

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Wheat straw is rich in volatile-N, which releases much HCN during the co-combustion, but the

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residence time is too short for HCN complete oxidization. Moreover, HCN formation mainly

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results from the thermal cracking of volatiles and is largely affected by the H radical concentration

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31, 32

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N sites are consumed rapidly by CO2, thus prolonging the release time of HCN. The prolonged

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release time and insufficient oxidization time together lead to the formation of HCN in the flue

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gas.

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, which is mentioned above in Section 2.4. With the promotion of HCN formation, the active

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generation of more amine radicals and cyanogen radicals because the high contents of ammonia

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nitrogen (protein-N and amino-N)

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critical in NO reduction and N2O generation. As a result, the addition of wheat straw leads to a

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decrease of NO emission factor and an increase of N2O emission factor.

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form a reducing atmosphere. Thus, reactions (7)-(10) are

1000 900 800

o

Temperature ( C)

700 600 500

Case 1, Datong coal Case 2, Datong coal/wheat straw=70/30

400 300 200 100 0 0

1000

2000

3000

4000

5000

6000

Height (mm)

183 184

(a)

Datong coal Datong coal/wheat straw=70/30

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100

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60

40

20

0 N2O

NO

HCN

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(b)

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nitrogenous gases

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The oxygen concentration in the flue gas is an important parameter during CFBC. Six tests of

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Datong coal/wheat straw (coal/straw=70/30) were conducted at oxygen concentrations of

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2.6%-5.04% and 2.6%-10.4% in the flue gas, corresponding to excess oxygen ratios of 1.06-1.12

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(cases 2, 3, 4 in O2/CO2) and 1.06-1.26 (cases 5, 6, 7 in O2/RFG), respectively. Both the total

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oxygen concentration and primary-flow oxygen concentration were 50% in all cases, and the

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PF/SF ratio was 60/40. Temperature profiles in the furnace and emission factors of nitrogenous

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gases are shown in Fig. 3.

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The excess oxygen ratio slightly affects the temperature profiles in the O2/CO2 cases. However,

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in O2/RFG cases which were conducted in semi-closed circulating systems, it was hard to adjust

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the excess oxygen ratios while keeping the temperature profiles unchanged.

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Both NO and N2O emission factors were increased with the increasing excess oxygen ratio, but

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HCN emission factors did not change significantly. It could be predicted that increasing the excess

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oxygen ratio would promote reactions (1)-(6), thus accelerating NO emission factor. Since air

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excess ratio and N2O emission factor are positively related 41, 42, reducing the excess oxygen ratio

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could effectively control NO and N2O emission factors.

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o

Temperature ( C)

700

O2/CO2, Datong coal/wheat straw=70/30

600

Case 2, excess O2 ratio 1.06

500

Case 3, excess O2 ratio 1.10

400

Case 4, excess O2 ratio 1.12

300

O2/RFG, Datong coal/wheat straw=70/30 Case 5, excess O2 ratio 1.06

200

Case 6, excess O2 ratio 1.15

100

Case 7, excess O2 ratio 1.26

0 0

1000

2000

3000

4000

5000

6000

Height (mm)

205 206

(a)

180

150

Emission (mg/MJ)

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90

60

30

0 1.06

1.08

1.10

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Datong coal/wheat straw=70/30 N2O NO HCN

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60

40

20

0 1.05

1.10

1.15

1.20

1.25

Excess oxygen ratio

209 210

(c)

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Fig. 3 Effect of excess oxygen ratio: (a) Temperature profiles in the furnace; Emission factors of nitrogenous gases

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(b) in O2/CO2 and (c) in O2/RFG

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3.3 Effect of flow staging

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Flow staging is considered as one major effective method to control NO emission factor in

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traditional air CFB combustion. For oxy-fuel CFB combustion, especially oxy-fuel CFB

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tests at secondary flow ratios of 30%-50%. Specifically, cases 8-10 in series 1 were conducted

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using Datong coal/corn straw (coal/straw=70/30) in O2/CO2, while cases 6 and 11 in series 2 were

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furnace, especially in the dense phase zone. Increasing the secondary flow ratio leads to

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temperature drop near the secondary flow inlet because of its cooling effect, and to the

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co-combustion mode. A too low secondary flow ratio would weaken the reducibility of the dense

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phase zone, so the fuel-N is partially converted to N2O and NO instead of N2, but is largely

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oxygen supply in the dense phase zone, which is not conducive to fuel-N release. In the dilute

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phase zone, a large amount of unreleased fuel-N tends to release in the form of NO and N2O in the

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reduction of NO and N2O emission factors. Unlike the O2/CO2 cases, the NO and N2O emission

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The oxy-fuel CFB combustion is faced with heavy thermal load and fast combustion in the

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dense phase zone. As a result, slight fluctuations of gas flow supplement and fuel feeding might

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oxygen ratio was kept at about 1.21 and the PF/SF ratio was 50/50. Temperature profiles in the

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furnace and emission factors of nitrogenous gases are shown in Fig. 5. Reducing the oxygen

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concentration in the primary flow effectively reduces the temperatures in the dense phase zone and

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reduce the combustion fraction in the dense phase zone, resulting in a temperature drop in this

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zone and on average (Fig. 5a). As for HCN, a lower temperature and stronger reducibility of the

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dense phase zone help the conversion of fuel-N to HCN instead of N2 and NO. In the dilute phase

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zone, a lower temperature also suppresses the HCN to NO/N2O conversion. As for N2O, N2O

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and 30%, respectively (cases 15-17), with the excess oxygen ratio at 1.10, both the total oxygen

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concentration and the primary flow oxygen concentration at 50%, and PF/SF ratio at 50/50. Figure

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6 shows the temperature profiles in the furnace and emission factors of nitrogenous gases. The

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average furnace temperature drops with the rise of the corn straw share because coal has a larger

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With the rise of corn straw share, emission factors of NO, N2O and HCN increase by 241.3%

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(26.4 to 90.1 mg/MJ), 237.5% (17.6-59.4 mg/MJ) and 491.0% (7.8-46.1 mg/MJ), respectively. As

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factors of nitrogenous gases owe to different fuel-N forms in coal and corn straw. The forms of N

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forms of nitrogenous gases. This can be interpreted from three aspects: (1) the nitrogen in corn

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char-N which is hard to release and convert; (3), the fixed carbon content in coal is larger than

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corn straw, so NO is reduced at high temperature

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2CO+2NO=2CO2+N2 occur easily. As a consequence, the rise of corn straw share results in an

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increase of volatile-N content and decline of fixed carbon and char nitrogen contents in the mixed

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fuel. Thus, both the fuel-N to nitrogenous gas conversion and NO/CO/char reactions are easier to

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with the rise of corn straw share in the mixed fuel.

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. Thus, reactions 2C+2NO=2CO+N2 and

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Temperature is an important parameter during the operation of a CFB boiler. Case 2 (about 800 o

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to investigate the effects of temperature on emission factors of nitrogenous gases. Similarly, the

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excess oxygen ratio, total oxygen concentration, oxygen concentration in the primary flow, and the

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PF/SF ratio were all kept constant. Figure 7 shows temperature profiles in the furnace and

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The high combustion temperature accelerated the conversion of HCN, which was a product

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from incomplete combustion. Homogeneous N2O destruction by radicals can be expressed as

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N2O + H = N2 + OH, E=79.03 kJ/mol (11)

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N2O + OH = N2 + HO2, E=88.16 kJ/mol (12)

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Similarly, under flame conditions or high temperature (>900 °C), the N2O destruction through thermal dissociation in collision with any molecule M is also important 47: N2O + M = N2 + O +M, E=237.01 kJ/mol (13)

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The higher temperature further activates the free radicals (e.g. H and OH), which contribute to

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reactions (11) and (12). The higher temperature in case 18 also promoted N2O thermal dissociation,

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leading to the loss of N2O through reaction (13) 48. Thus, temperature rise effectively reduces N2O

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High levels of CO2 will reduce the temperature of the char particles so as to extend fuel-N release

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time during oxy-fuel combustion. Further, it is difficult for fuel-N from coal char to release

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completely at the low temperature of 800 oC during coal / biomass co-combustion. At the

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temperature of 900 oC, the fuel-N releases and converts more completely, while HCN and N2O

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release lower than those at 800 oC. So NO emission factor at 900 oC is higher than 800 oC.

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4. Conclusions

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Combustion and emission characteristics of coal/straw mixed fuel were investigated in oxy-fuel

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atmosphere. A series of laboratory-scale CFB tests were conducted at high total oxygen

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concentration and some new results are shown:

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Compared with coal mono-combustion, HCN emission factor is more obvious in coal / biomass

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co- combustion because of volatile-N rich in straw. At the same total oxygen concentration, a

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higher oxygen concentration in the primary flow leads to less emission factors of HCN and N2O

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mainly because of higher average temperature in the furnace. Increasing the straw share

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significantly promoted the emission factors of NO, N2O and HCN, which was attributed to the low

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combustion temperature and easy release of fuel-N when straw was added. As a result of the

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longer residence and reaction time, O2/RFG combustion outperformed O2/CO2 combustion in

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terms of emission factors of nitrogenous gases. The average temperature rise led to a slight

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increase of NO emission factor but significant decrease of N2O and HCN emission factors.

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Acknowledgements

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This work is funded by the External Cooperation Program of BIC, Chinese Academy of Sciences

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(2014DFG61680) and Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS (No. 2015120).

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