The drying experiments of three typical kinds of Inner Mongolia lignite were conducted on a self-designed apparatus. The proximate analyses and oxygen adsorbing capacities of all the samples were analyzed on an industrial analyzer and a coal spontaneous combustion tendency tester. The results show that the treated samples show no apparent changes in their properties compared to the original lignite and no pyrolysis or combustion phenomenon occurs in the drying process. It is also observed that the oxygen adsorbing capacity of the dewatered sample is lower than that of the original lignite. Especially the oxygen adsorbing capacity of the lignite sample undergoing high-temperature drying process decreases significantly. Considering the amount of adsorbed oxygen can reflect the spontaneous combustion tendency of coal to a certain extent, the spontaneous combustion tendency of the treated lignite decreases.
The technology of downstream vibrated bed dryer with high temperature flue gas has been applied successfully by CPI Mengdong Energy Group Co., LTD for the large scale upgrading of Baiyinhua lignite. It is very necessary to study the drying process of a single lignite particle by high temperature flue gas. Based on finite volume method, the numerical simulation was applied in the lignite drying process and the mathematical model for the drying process of a single spherical lignite particle with high temperature flue gas was developed. Here, the lignite particle was divided into dry region and wet region by water evaporation interface. To accelerate convergence and make stable domain larger and truncation error smaller in the solution process, Crank-Nicolson six-point difference iteration method was used to solve the model.
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