Calculating Air requirement for a given Coal Ultimate Analysis S No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 S.no.

1 Carbon Hydrogen Sulphur Oxygen Nitrogen Moisture Ash Calculated Parameters Theoritical Air (kg/100kg of fuel) Values 759 176.11 582.9 Constituents % Compositon 56.8 3.7 2 7 1.3 12.5 16.7

2 Theoritical Oxygen requirement (kg/100kg of fuel) 3 Total Nitrogen (kg/100kg of fuel) Calculation of Excess Air EA= Theoretical CO2%/Actual CO2 % S.no. Particulars 1 Theoretical CO2 % for Bituminous Coal (% by vol.) 2 Considering Actual CO2 % for Bituminous Coal (% by vol.) 3 Excess Air (%) 4 Air for combustion after considering Excess Air (kg/100 kg of fuel)

Values 18.6 15 24 941.16

Products of Combustion

Table 1:- If only Theoretical Air is consider S.no. Particulars CO2 H20 1 Molecular Mass of each gas 44 18 2 kg of gas/100 kg of fuel 208.3 33.3 3 Moisture (kg/100 kg of fuel) 12.5 4 Specific Vol. at STP in m3/kg 0.51 1.25 5 Volume of gas/100 kg of fuel (Wet) 106.24 57.25 6 % by Volume (Wet) 16.84 4.96 7 Volume of gas/100 kg of fuel (Dry) 106.24 0 6 % by Volume (Dry) 18.52 0 Table 2:- Considering different amount of excess air the products of combustion shall vary S.no. Excess Air % 0% 10% 1 kg Air/100 kg of fuel 0 75.9 2 kg of Oxygen/100 kg of fuel 0 17.62 3 kg of Nitrogen/100 kg of fuel 0 58.29 Table 3:- If Excess air is also considered lets say (20%) S.no. 1 2 3 4 5 6 5 Particulars Molecular Mass of each gas kg of gas/100 kg of fuel Specific Volume at STP in m3/kg Volume of gas/100kg of fuel (Wet) % by Volume (Wet) Volume of gas/100 kg of fuel (Dry) % by Volume (Dry) CO2 44 208.3 0.51 106.24 14.19 106.24 15.36 H20 18 45.8 1.25 57.25 7.65 0 0

Products of Combustion Table 1:- If only Theoretical Air is considered SO2 64 4 N2 28 582.9 Total Remarks

0.35 0.8 1.4 466.32 0.13 42.49 1.4 466.32 0.25 81.25 products of combustion shall vary 20% 30% 151.8 227.7 35.23 52.84 116.58 174.87

eg. C+O2--->CO2 i.e. 56.8+(8/3*56.8) As per the Ultimate Analysis received 22.4/Mol. Mass of each gas 631.21 (2)+(3)*(4) 573.96

40% Remarks 303.6 Considering Previous values 70.45 Considering Previous values 233.16 Considering Previous values

SO2 64 4 0.35 1.4 0.19 1.4 0.21

N2 28 699.48 0.8 559.59 74.7 559.59 80.88

O2 32 35.23 0.7 24.67 3.3 24.67 3.57

Total

Remarks As Known Refering above 2 tables

749.15 As solved in Table 1 100 691.9 100