Numerical simulations have been conducted to study combustion characteristics of tangentially fired pulverized-coal boiler. A 600 MW tangentially coal-fired boiler was used for investigating the effect of platen super-heaters on the temperature, species distributions and heat transfer. Two furnace models were established, whose difference lies in modeling super-heaters or not. Results show that modelling platen super-heaters is conducive to precisely predict the temperature, species (CO, CO2, O2) and heat flux in the platen zone and has a weak influence on these data in zones below the platen. Modelling platen super-heaters has little influence on the NOx prediction. Platen super-heaters obviously decrease heat absorbed by water-wall nearby and affects heat distribution coefficient of furnace.

Due to the introduction and implementation of new standards and new specifications, the structure of the heat transfer elements inside the air preheater has undergone relatively large changes. The thermal calculation method of the rotary air preheater is based on the Soviet 1973“Standard Method for Thermal Calculation of Boiler Units” It has been impossible to directly establish the heat transfer formula. According to the actual operating conditions of the rotary air preheater, the boundary conditions of the calculated heat transfer model can be obtained, including: the inlet temperature and inlet flow rate of the flue gas and air of the preheater; the heat transfer element of the regenerator is repeated Rotation, there are continuous conditions of the temperature of the heat storage element heat transfer element between the different air flow sub-bins. And a method for solving discrete equations is proposed.