Computational Combustion and Emission Analysis from a mCCHP System Compared to a Conventional Power Plant

摘要

The paper presents a numerical simulation to analyze the pollutants generation in the combustion chamber of a Stirling engine integrated into a micro-combined cooling, heating and power system (mCCHP). Fuel combustion is one of the important problems in thermofluid mechanics. In the last years, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) techniques are used due to developing of numerical techniques and computer capabilities. This CFD analysis provides information on flame temperature, CO2 and NOx concentrations for the biogas combustion of in mCCHP system. The pollutant emissions of biogas combustion in a Stirling engine combustion chamber are compared with the emissions of a conventional power plant.