The promotion of CO oxidization and inhibition of NO formation by gaseous iron species were analyzed using the Sandia SENKIN program. It is shown that the relative ratio of CO oxidization dramatically varies with combustion time at early burning stage in the presence of iron species, and all peak values are greater than 2.4. The relative ratio of CO oxidization decreases with the increase of air stoichiometric ratio and CO concentration in off-gas. The circulation reactions of Fe FeO/FeO2-Fe achieve the catalytic effect on CO oxidization. Gaseous iron species can greatly inhibit NO formation, NO reduction ratio can reach above 70% at T = 2073 and 2273 K, and gaseous iron species can effectively inhibit NO formation when combustion temperature is not higher than 2273 K during the off-gas combustion. There are O-2 competitive reactions between thermal NO formation and Fe oxidization, and high chemical activity of iron species inhibits thermal-NO formation.

This paper was published as:
Li S;Wei XL. Promotion of CO oxidization and inhibition of NO formation by gaseous iron species during high-temperature off-gas combustion. ENERGY & FUELS, 25(3):967-974(2011)