Combustion of hydrocarbon fuels in a bubbling fluidized bed

摘要

A laboratory size quartz reactor has been used to burn methane. LPG(liquid petroleum gas)and aromatic hydrocarbon vapors in a bubbling fluidized bed. Most measurements and observations were made for lean mixtures of fuel an air with quartz sand in the bed, but in some experiments NI, NO_2, or CCl_4 were introduced with the fuel, the stoichiometry was varied or the bed material changed. The quantities monitored were the bed temperature at two levels and the freeboard concentrations of O_2, CO_2, CO, NO, NO_2, and in some runs, of hydrocarbons. An attempt was made to related the measurements to the sound level to visual observations.