United States
                   Environmental Protection
                   Agency
 Industrial Environmental Research
 Laboratory
 Research Triangle Park NC 27711
                   Research and Development
EPA-600/S7-84-087  Sept. 1984
SERA         Project Summary
                   Development  of Criteria  for
                   Extension  of  Applicability  of
                   Low-Emission,  High-Efficiency
                   Coal  Burners:  Fourth Annual
                   Report
                   R. Payne, P. L. Case, M. P. Heap, J. Lee, C. N. McKinnon, P. Nelson, and D. W.
                   Pershing
                    This report summarizes technical pro-
                   gress during the fourth year of effort on
                   EPA Contract  68-02-2667. NO, and
                   SOx emission  characteristics  of two
                   low-NOx distributed-mixing burners
                   were tested with three coals in a large
                   water-tube simulator furnace (50-70 x
                   10* Btu/hr firing rate). Increasing burn-
                   er load, burner zone stoichiometry, or
                   overall excess air increased NO, emis-
                   sions. Staging was limited by increases
                   in CO emissions  and problems with
                   flame stability at burner zone stoichio-
                   metries below 0.6.  The feasibility of
                   using dry sorbents injected directly into
                   the furnace for SO2 emission  control
                   was investigated. Sorbenttype[Ca(OH)2
                   vs. CaCOa] and injection location had a
                   small effect on sulfur capture. Fuel
                   sulfur content also affected sulfur cap-
                   ture. Sulfur captures on the order of 40-
                   50 percent were obtained at Ca/S
                   molar ratios of 2.0.
                    Parametric studies of the sulfur cap-
                   ture process were performed in a spe-
                   cially constructed Boiler Simulator Fur-
                   nace fired at 1.0 x 10s Btu/hr. Under
                   fuel-lean conditions, thermal  history
                   exerted controlling influence on sulfur
                   capture. Firing and heat extractio'n rates
                   strongly influenced sulfur capture due
                   to their effect on thermal history. Sor-
                   bent location,  burner zone stoichio-
                   metry, overall excess air, and tertiary air
                   velocity had secondary effects on cap-
ture. Capture under fuel-rich conditions
was also investigated. Significant reten-
tion of sulfur in the solid phase and a
gaseous sulfur species distribution con-
siderably different than that expected
from equilibrium calculations were ob-
served. Sorbent injection location and
method affected sulfur capture under
fuel-rich conditions.
  This Project Summary was developed
by EPA's Industrial Environmental Re-
search Laboratory. Research Triangle
Park, NC. to announce key findings of
the research project that is fully docu-
mented in a separate report of the same
title (see Project Report ordering infor-
mation at back).


Introduction
  This report describes the progress on
EPA Contract 68-02-2667, "Development
of Criteria for Extension of Applicability of
Low-Emission, High Efficiency Coal Burn-
ers," from October 1,1980, to October 1,
1981. The program, initiated in October
1977, was structured to provide data for a
wider design base in applying the dis-
tributed mixing burner (DMB) as a means
of controlling the emissions of NO*. In this
context, the program's main  objectives
were to:

• Expand the fuel capability of low NOX
  burners to include the major types of

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    solid fossil fuels projected for use by
    the utility industry.
 • Explore additional burner concepts and
    configurations that show potential for
    improving the emission and thermal
    performance of  pulvenzed-coal burn-
    ers.
 • Determine the effects of multiple burn-
    er configurations that are encountered
    in utility boilers.
 • Directly compare the  experimental
    burners being developed here and the
    current  state-of-the-art for  commer-
    cially available coal burners.
 • Provide testing  in support of planned
    application of the burner technology.

 To meet these objectives, the  program
 was divided into seven tasks; see Figure
 1. These tasks were designed to provide
 experimental data relative to the DMB.
 The work moves progressively  from
 bench-scale studies of the basic process-
 es, through single burner studies at a
 range of pilot scales, to multiple burner
 configurations and a comparison of DMB
 emission and operating characteristics
 with current commercial technology. The
 base program provides also for technology
 transfer and review of progress by the
 industry.
    During the past reporting period, the
 main focus of the program has shifted
                              somewhat, and  renewed  attention  has
                              been  directed toward  dry sorbent  SO,
                              control technology. The use of sorbents to
                              control emissions of SO, is not new and
                              was extensively studied in the late 1960's
                              and early 1970's in a series of develop-
                              ment and demonstration  projects. Al-
                              though  the pilot plant studies  showed
                              promise, the results could not be dupli-
                              cated in full scale systems. This work,
                              together with results from  recent pilot
                              scale studies, was reviewed; some of the
                              more recent data  suggest that burner
                              conditions necessary to minimize NO, are
                              also favorable for  sulfur capture by in-
                              jected sorbents. This  has led to the
                              concept of a  combined N0,/S0, control
                              strategy and to the need for a definition of
                              the conditions under which the emission
                              of  both  pollutants can be minimized
                              without significant impact on  overall
                              combustion system performance. A modi-
                              fied program plan approach for Contract
                              68-02-2667, which extends the original
                              goals to include SO, control, is shown in
                              Figure 2. The experimental portion of this
                              program includes both bench scale stud-
                              ies to define optimum conditions  for
                              sulfur capture, and pilot  scale  studies
                              with real burner systems to optimize and
                              evaluate the potential for combined
                              NO,/SO, control.
                                The technology which has the potential
                              to provide simultaneous control of NO,
      Program Planning
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                                                       Technology Transfer
                                                 Task 6
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                                                        Design Guidelines
                                                             Task 7
                                                     Data Analysis and Criteria
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Figure  1.
Program structure for developing criteria for extending applicability of low-
emission/high-efficiency coal burners.
and SO, has been dubbed LIMB—lime-
stone injection  into multistage burners.
FigureS shows the LIMB process, simpli-
fied. Coal, combustion air, and the sorbent
(usually some form of calcium carbonate)
are injected into the furnace. The sorbent
may be mixed with the coal or injected
with one of the combustion air streams
(e.g., staging air). Subsequent events can
be considered  to take place in  three
regions:

  1.  Particle Heating—a short residence
     time  region  where the  coal  and
     sorbent are heated, typically at
     rates of 104 K/sec.
  2.  Fuel-Rich—a reducing  region, de-
     ficient in oxygen.
  3.  Fuel-Lean—an  oxidizing region
     where the coal  is burned out and
     the combustion products are cooled
     before entering the convective sec-
     tions.

  The  oxidation of fuel-bound nitrogen
(producing fuel NO)  accounts for 80
percent of the total NO,formed during the
combustion of pulverized coal. The mini-
mization of fuel NO formation requires
that volatile fuel  nitrogen species are
prevented from  reacting with oxygen and
forming NO. During combustion the vola-
tile fuel nitrogen species (XN) can  follow
two general paths:

• Fuel-lean—
   XN+02~NO                   (1)
• Fuel-rich—
   XN-HCN-N-NH-NHa -NH3 (2)
   N +  NO-Nz + O                (3)

Reaction 2 summarizes the nitrogen shift
reactions that produce HCN or NH3 under
fuel-rich conditions. Reaction 3  is the
most probable path forming N2 in pulver-
ized coal flames. All fuel-bound nitrogen
is not volatile, and the coal char contains
nitrogen which can  be oxidized.  Since
char burnout must be under oxidizing
conditions, NO production from char
nitrogen is unavoidable. Consequently, it
is important that the conditions  in the
heating and fuel-rich zones promote the
evolution of fuel nitrogen species.
  The  oxidation  of  both organic  and
inorganic coal sulfur  produces the  S02
emissions from pulverized coal combus-
tion. The ultimate gas-phase sulfur spe-
ciation depends on the temperature and
gas-phase stoichiometry. In the fuel-rich
region sulfur will exist as H2S, COS, or
CS2, and in the fuel-lean regional most al
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sorbent can capture sulfur in both the
fuel-rich and fuel-lean regionsfsee Figure
3).  In the fuel-rich region the reduced
sulfur  species  can react with  sorbent
directly, producing CaS:

    CaCOa + H2S - CaS + H20 + C02 (4)

under  fuel-lean conditions SO2 reacts
with the  calcined sorbent, producing
CaS04:

     CaO + S02+ 1/202-CaS04   (5)
Rates of both reactions depend on the
gas-phase sulfur concentration which
benefits the  fuel-rich capture because
the reactants are more concentrated (if
the sulfur content of the char  is mini-
mized). Fuel-rich capture could have the
further advantage -that calcium  sulfide
may not block the pore structure, allowing
greater utilization of the limestone.
  Before the fuel-lean capture  process
can take  place, the sorbent must be
calcined. The reactivity of the calcine
appears to depend most strongly on peak
temperatures. If  temperatures are too
high the material  is dead-burned, result-
ing in a dramatic reduction in the surface
area and a loss of reactivity. Consequent-
ly, the thermal history experienced by the
sorbent particles is critical, and it may be
advantageous if they are excluded from
the heat release zone where peak tem-
peratures are highest. Regeneration of
SOZ can occur: the sulfide is more stable
at higher temperatures than the sulfate
but, if capture occurs  under fuel-rich
conditions, the sulfide must be converted

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Figure 3.   Simplified process description of LIMB.
 to sulfate in the fuel-lean region without
 decomposing the CaO and S02.
  The sulfur capture process  results  in
 particulate emissions which potentially
 consist  of: fly ash,  partially calcined
 sorbent, calcined sorbent  with varying
 degrees of reactivity, and  partially sul-
 fated sorbent. The composition and prop-
 erties of the solid emissions will depend
 on coal and sorbent properties as well as
 the LIMB process.
   In the present  reporting  period of the
 contract, pilot  scale studies have been
 carried out with a reduced scale (50 x 106
 Btu/hr) version of the Steinmuller Staged
 Mixing Burner to  compare DMB perform-
 ance and current commercial technology.
 A  field  prototype version  of  the DMB
 burner system  has also been extensively
 tested under EPA Contract 68-02-3127.
 Both burner tests also provided an op-
 portunity to investigate sorbent injection
 in  unmodified (for SO, control) systems.
While  the  experimental data indicate
some potential for significant SO, removal
under low NO, conditions, the pilot scale
results provide little further understand-
ing of the basic mechanisms involved in
sulfur capture, or of the ideal conditions
required for process optimization.
  Most experimental effort  during this
period was on characterizing the S02
capture process using bench-scale (up to
1.0 x 106 Btu/hr firing rate) facilities.
During the bench scale  studies, two
experimental approaches were  taken.
The first attempted to remove some of the
complexities associated  with coal com-
bustion and examined  sorbent/sulfur
interactions in a totally gas-phase system.
In the second, studying coal combustion
under furnace conditions which simulate
the temperature/time history of a com-
plete boiler system, it was necessary to
construct a new Boiler Simulator Furnace
(BSF) facility. Experimental results from
                                                                                              Fly Ash
both phases of the  bench-scale experi-
mental program are presented and discussed.
  Analytical requirements for this pro-
gram were extensive, and previous ex-
perience has shown the need for carefully
controlled conditions when sampling for
sulfur species in the presence of active
sorbents. These requirements necessitat-
ed the development  of several new sam-
pling and  analytical capabilities at EER,
and  these are described. Some conclu-
sions (although still  of an interim nature)
drawn from the results  of the work are
presented.


Pilot-Scale Results—IMOX and
SOX Control
  Two low-NO, distributed-mixing burn-
ers were tested in  the large watertube
simulator (LWS) to determine the effect of
various  operational  and  fuel related pa-
rameters on NO, emissions. The results

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obtained with these burners in the LWS
are compared  with results obtained  in
other facilities in Figures 4, 5, and 6.  In
general, even though absolute levels  of
NOX emissions were different in the dif-
ferent facilities, effects  of burner zone
stoichiometry (Figure 4), overall excess
air  (Figure 5), and load (Figure 6) are
similar.  Effects of these operating pa-
rameters were also independent of coal
type, although again the absolute levels
of NOX emissions were different for the
different coals in the same facility (the
LWS). In general, increased load, excess
air, and burner zone stoichiometry (de-
creased staging) all increased NOX emis-
sions for  all the coals in  the facilittes
compared. NO* emission characterization
of the EPA prototype distributed mixing
       burner was performed under EPA Con-
       tract 68-02-3921 and  is  described  in
       detail in that contract report. In general,
       the effects of burner zone stoichiometry,
       excess air level,  and load on NOX emis-
       sions were similar to those observed with
       the Steinmuller burner;  again, baseline
       NO,  emissions for  the  different  coals
       were different and NOX emission levels
       for the same coals were slightly different
       for the two burners.
         In  addition  to the characterization  of
       NO.  emissions, a series  of experiments
       were carried  out with both burners  to
       determine the potential for SO2 removal
       by direct injection of calcium-based sor-
       bents. These  studies were carried out
       without modifying either burner and only
       at conditions  which were optimized for
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Figure 4.   Effect of burner zone  stoichiometry on /VO« emissions—comparison of data,
           Steinmuller burner.
NO, emissions. No attempt was made to
optimize the firing system for  sulfur
capture. Results of the sorbent injection
tests  in the two  burners indicate that
sorbent type [Ca(OH)2 or CaC03] and
injection location (with fuel or staging air)
had small effects on the sulfur capture in
either burner. The  effect of sorbent
location was more pronounced with the
prototype  burner  and appears to be a
result of changes in sorbent thermal
history. The data also indicate that sulfur
capture increases with coal sulfur con-
tent. Figure 7  summarizes results from
studies with  the EPA prototype and
Steinmuller burners in several furnaces.
Results from Steinmuller tests  in the
LWS and in the IFRF furnace are included,
along with data from the prototype burner.
Comparing the LWS results using the
prototype and  Steinmuller burners with
Indiana coal,  shows  that the prototype
burner resulted in higher sulfur capture
even though the burners  were operated
at comparable conditions. This perhaps
indicates the influence of burner  design
conditions. The LWS  results using a
prototype burner with Utah coal and the
low sulfur  coal IFRF test results show
good  general  agreement. This indicates
that burner effects may be unimportant
for low sulfur coals; since these  results
are from burners  which were  not opti-
mized for  SOz capture, they should be
treated with caution.
  The good agreement between the LWS
data for Indiana coal and the IFRF data
with the high  sulfur coal is somewhat
surprising in light of the higher furnace
temperature (1000°C  vs. 600°C  in the
LWS) employed at IFRF.
  In general, the pilot-scale tests indicate
a lack of more  definitive assessments of
the parameters controlling SO2 capture
via dry sorbents. Of help would be studies
focused on the potential for application of
this technology in field boilers, and the
optimum burner design  and  operating
parameters required to maximize sulfur
capture without affecting  NO, emissions
or boiler efficiency.  Further studies  of
sorbent injection  for SOz  control are
planned as a continuation of the  68-02-
2667 contract effort. Several pilot-scale
furnaces using two burners will be tested
in the next year.

Bench-Scale Studies of SO2
Capture by  Dry Solvent
Injection
  The  major experimental effort  during
this reporting period was characterization
of the SOz capture process at  bench-

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                   Total Stoichiometric Ratio (SR^

Effect of excess air on NO Demissions — comparison of data, Steinmuller burner.
scale. The effort included: development of
sampling and analytical systems for meas-
uring SOs and determining sulfur cap-
ture; design, construction, and testing of
an experimental facility, the Boiler Simu-
lator Furnace(BSF); and investigating the
effect of various combustion and opera-
tional parameters on sulfur capture in the
BSF. The measurement of sulfur species
in combustion products containing active
sorbents introduces several problems
related to sample acquisition. A "phase
discrimination" probe,  which minimizes
gas/solid contacting after sample extrac-
tion,  was designed,  constructed and
tested.  Methods for measuring sulfur
species concentrations in fuel-rich com-
bustion gases were developed as were
methods for solids analysis (including
                             sorbent, ash, and coal composition and
                             surface areas).
                               The bench-scale facility constructed for
                             these studies can duplicate the thermal
                             history of the solid particles (coal and
                             sorbent) and the products of combustion
                             in a pulverized coal-fired boiler. The
                             facility consists  of three major compo-
                             nents:
                                A radiant furnace, a horizontal refrac-
                                tory-lined  cylinder which  simulates
                                the firing  zone.  Removable cooling
                                tubes provide heat extraction.
                                A post-flame cavity  which simulates
                                the space between the firing zone and
                                the superheater of a  conventional
                                boiler.
A convective section, cooled by banks
of air-cooled stainless steel tubes,
which simulates the superheater, air
heater, and economizer.

a Schematic of the Boiler Simulator
Furnace is shown in Figure 8.
  A parametric screening study of the
effect of combustion and  operation
variables on sulfur capture by sorbents
directly injected into the furnace was
planned; the first  portion was  com-
pleted. The results of program defini-
tion experiments were used to specify
design criteria for the BSF and param-
eters for the first  set of screening
studies. Parameters investigated in-
cluded:  firing rate,  heat extraction
rate, sorbent injection location, overall
excess air, burner zone stoichiometry,
and tertiary air  velocity. One sorbent
(Vicron  45-3, a  large-grain calcite
limestone)  and one  coal (a medium
sulfur [1-2  percent], bituminous Indi-
ana coal) were used for all studies.
  The studies established that under
fuel-lean conditions, thermal history
exerts a controlling influence on sulfur
capture. Results  shown  in Figure 9
showtotal sulfur capture as a function
of calcium-to-sulfur ratio  for three
thermal conditions. Furnace temper-
atures are also shown for the uncooled
and most heavily cooled conditions.
  The effect of thermal history on
capture in the various furnace zones
was further analyzed. Capture  was
measured at the exit of the radiant and
post-flame sections as well as at the
furnace exit. Results summarized in
Figure 10 show sulfur capture in the
radiant and post-flame sections of the
BSF as a function of Ca/S-'S'O'z in each
zone. Three  conditions  are shown:
high firing rate  (with and without
radiant  zone cooling)  and low  load
without cooling. Reducing  the  firing
rate reduced the  temperatures and
increasedtheresidencetimes. Cooling
the radiant zone decreased peak tem-
peratures  with  little  effect on the
residence times. Radiant zone cooling
dramatically  increased capture; the
low-load conditions gave  relatively
poor capture in the radiant zone, but
both reduced-temperature cases (cool-
ed and low-load) gave approximately
the same capture in the post-flame
section.
  Other parameters(mcludmg sorbent
location, burner zone  stoichiometry,
overall  excess air,  and tertiary air
velocity) had secondary effects, which

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Effect of load on /VO» emissions—comparison of data, Steinmuller burner.
   depended  to  some  extent on other
   variables, on sulfur capture.
     Sulfur capture under fuel-rich condi-
   tions was evaluated using both Indiana
   coal and propane/H2S as fuels. Fuel-
   rich conditions were obtained by firing
   the burner with a sub-stoichiometric
   amount of air, running the entire
   radiant furnace  fuel-rich, and adding
   the remainder of the combustion air at
   the base of the radiant furnace. Sulfur
   capture appears to be proportional to
   sulfurspeciesdrivingforcetothe 1 /2-
   power. The increase in sulfur species
   concentration under  fuel-rich condi-
   tions (due  to reduced dilution) should
   benefit sulfur capture. Figure 11 sum-
   marizes data on sulfur species distri-
   bution as a function of stoichiometric
   ratio based on equilibrium calculations
   (free  energy minimization) and on
   actual experimental measurements of
   the gas phase in the BSF near the end
   of the fuel-rich  zone. The equilibrium
   calculations indicate that (for stoichio-
   metries below 0.95) H2S is the only
   species of importance. However, data
   from  propane/H2S  and Indiana coal
   measurements demonstrate that a
   wide spectrum of reduced sulfur spe-
   cies are  present  under these condi-
   tions. With  the propane/air flames,
   S02 was significantly more  important
   at rich conditions than would  have
   been anticipated from equilibrium
   calculations, and  both  COS and CSz
   were nonnegligible. The data in Figure
   11 indicate that with the Indiana coal
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            DMB  data—limestone injected
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 the gas-phase species distribution
 was non-equilibrium and that a signif-
 icant amount of coal sulfur remained
 in the solid phase. These results
 emphasize  two problems  associated
 with sulfur capture under fuel-rich
 conditions:  SC>2  concentrations may
 be nonnegligible, and a large fraction
 of the sulfur may remain  in the solid
 phase. Tests will be carried out in the
 next year with  propane/H2S  in  an
 attempt to separate t he effect of sulf ur
 evolution from the coal, and capture
 from the gas phase.
   A further complication of the sulfur
 capture process under fuel-rich condi-
 tions  is  due to the impact of  the
 physical staging  method,  used to ob-
 tain long  residence times under fuel-
 rich conditions, on the thermal charac-
 teristics of  the experimental system.
 The data  presented in Figure 12 was
 obtained firing  Indiana coal. The tem-
 perature  profiles were derived from
 wall temperature measurements  and

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Figure 8.   Boiler simulator furnace—original configuration.
   calculated residence times (based on
   plug flow). It can be seen  that first
   stage stoichiometry had a  dramatic
   effect on the thermal history of the
   reactants. Under rich conditions, the
   radiant zone temperatures are signifi-
   cantly reduced, and the residence time
   is  increased due to the decreased
   mass flow rate. The temperature at the
   entrance of the post-flame section,
   where the second-stage air is added,
   increases during burnout of the coal.
   The  magnitude of this increase  will
   depend on the primary-zone stoichio-
   metry and on  the  inter-stage  heat
   removal. As shown  in Figure 12, the
   effect of first-stage  stoichiometry on
   sorbent utilization for Indiana coal at
   rich-zone stoichiometries greater than
   0.7 was slight. However,  captures
   decreased  dramatically  for fuel-rich
   stoichiometries less than 0.7. This is
   probably  due to a combination of
   regeneration during burnout, a reduc-
   tion  in  sulfur species driving force
   because of sulfur retention in the char,
and a decrease in the reaction rate
because of the lower temperatures in
the fuel-rich region.
  Further parametric screening studies
at bench scale are planned. In the next
year: sulfur capture will be investigated
in the fuel-rich region of gas flames
(eliminating the char sulfur  retention
complication) in the BSF; the effect of
thermal environment on sulfur capture
will be investigated in more detail; and
the effect of fuel and sorbent type on
sulfur capture will be investigated.'
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