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A numerical framework was carefully developed to simulate the combustion of heavy-fuel-oil (HFO) in a large-scale boiler. The present numerical solutions were compared with the measured data of a laboratory benchmark test and on-site operational data of the chosen HFO-fired boiler. Next, the developed framework was used to perform sensitivity analyses aiming to reduce the NO emission from the HFO-fired boiler without any adverse effect on its combustion performance. Practically, this study focused on re-adjustments of 24 working burners, which could control combustion in the HFO-fired boiler. The early outcome showed that the boiler NO emission and its combustion performance could be... 

Oxy-fuel combustion is a modern technique to improve the efficiency and reduce environmental penalty of many combustion systems. In the present study, three different approaches of skipping radiation, weighted sum of gray gases (WSGGM), and spectral line based weighted sum of gray gases (SLW) have been used in simulation of an unconfined turbulent bluff-body flame. The model is first validated against existing experimental data and then used to study the effect of oxygen enhancement and different spectral radiation models. Due to small optical thickness of the studied system, predictions of all three different approaches are close. However, by increasing oxygen concentration in the oxidizer... 

Oxy-fuel combustion is a modern technique to improve the efficiency and reduce environmental penalty of many combustion systems. In the present study, three different approaches of skipping radiation, weighted sum of gray gases (WSGGM), and spectral line based weighted sum of gray gases (SLW) have been used in simulation of an unconfined turbulent bluff-body flame. The model is first validated against existing experimental data and then used to study the effect of oxygen enhancement and different spectral radiation models. Due to small optical thickness of the studied system, predictions of all three different approaches are close. However, by increasing oxygen concentration in the oxidizer... 

Oxy-fuel combustion is a modern carbon capture and storage (CCS) technique that improves the combustion process and reduces the environmental penalty of many combustion systems. Evidently, the accurate radiative calculation of oxy-fuel combustion is very important to obtain more improved combustion system designs with less environmental drawbacks. In the present study, a small scale unconfined turbulent bluff-body flame is numerically simulated to calculate the gas radiative properties using three different approaches of ignoring radiation, applying a modified version of the weighted sum of gray gases (WSGG) model, and employing the spectral line based weighted sum of gray gases (SLW) model....