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The effective control mode of the coal flow rate inside the coal pipes of the coal-fired power station is investigated in this paper. With the purpose of increasing the burning efficiency of the boiler and also lowering the pollutant emissions of flue gas to the environmental atmosphere, the coal flow rates on every coal pipes are measured and adjusted by an orifice type restrictor such that the coal flow deviations of the coal pipes are reduced to a minimum. The coal flow distribution tests are performed using the microwave-based coal flow measurement system. The boiler No. 2 at the Taichung Thermal Power Station was selected to test the flow balancing of the pipe-to-pipe coal flow distributions of the pulverizer. The experimental results show that as the speed of the rotating dynamic classifier increases, the finer grain size of the powdered coal will be obtained. The small deviation of the coal flow rate is attained due to the percentage increase of the coal powder toward the small grain size distribution. The deviation of the coal flow rate will exceed the upper limit of the target value, if the speed of the rotating dynamic classifier is lowered to 75 rpm. The increasing air flow for the case of higher air/coal ratio helps the transport of large coal particles, and the better balance of the coal flow rate is achieved. It is noted that the coal thermal properties and the coal grain characteristics from different mining area affect rarely the balance of coal flow rates.
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