Bed combustion and gas flow model for MSW incinerator

CFD analysis on the MSW incinerator combustion chamber provides crucial insight on the thermal flow fields, but a difficulty arise from the boundary conditions on the waste bed in which the combustion is governed by complicated heat and mass transfer phenomena. Solid waste bed combustion models are constructed to predict the combustion process and corresponding generation of gas phase species by employing the submodels of homogeneous solid fuel particle combustion. And a strategy for simultaneous simulation of the waste bed combustion and the thermal flow fields in the furnace chamber is introduced, which would give more useful information on the effect of design and operation parameters. Keyword: incinerator, waste bed, waste combustion, combustion chamber Reference to this article should be made as follows: Ryu, C., Shin, D. and Choi, S. (1999) ‘Bed combustion and gas flow model for MSW incinerator’, Int. J. of Computer Application in Technology