ANALYSIS OF SOLID PHASE NITROGEN CONVERSION PROCESS TO GASEOUS OXIDES

Abstract

In the paper, the patterns of NOx formation from fuel bound nitrogen have beeen analyzed when burning various types of biofuel containing nitrogen, and also chip-ped waste of furniture production. It has been established that fuel bound nitrogen conversion to NOx slightly de-pends on type of fuel and on whether the nitrogen contai-ned in the fuel is naturally bound or is an artificial additive. It has been concluded that when heating the fuel up to 500°C, up to 30% of substances containing nitrogen releases from the fuel together with volatile substances. It has been shown that, when applying thermal processing of fuel, a part of nitrogen may be removed from the fuel. NOx formation can be reduced by rinsing the wood panels with water. 20% coke additives to fuel containing nitrogen allows reducing NOx concentration by up to 44%. Burning of high nitrogen content fuel together with low nitrogen content fuel provides ambiguous effect on NOx formation – it depends upon properties of this fuel as well.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.mech.19.5.5543