Method and system for determining transportation safety of pulverized coal

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12019961-B2
Application number	US-202017137623-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 30, 2020
Priority date	Nov 17, 2020
Publication date	Jun 25, 2024
Grant date	Jun 25, 2024

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a method and system for determining transportation safety of pulverized coal. The method includes: acquiring coal particle data during transportation of pulverized coal, where the coal particle data is size data of a coal particle accumulation; determining a particle model of the coal particle accumulation during the transportation of the pulverized coal according to the size data; establishing a constitutive theoretical model to describe all flow regimes of a coal granular medium; numerically discretizing the constitutive theoretical model by using a numerical method to obtain discrete equations; calculating a movement process of the coal granular medium according to the discrete equations and the particle model of the coal granular medium to obtain a calculation result; plotting the calculation result by using post-processing software Tecplot to obtain relevant information of a coal particle flow; and determining whether the pulverized coal transportation process is safe.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for determining transportation safety of pulverized coal, comprising:
acquiring coal particle data during transportation of pulverized coal, wherein the coal particle data is the size data of a coal particle accumulation, comprising length data, width data and height data of the coal particle accumulation;
determining a particle model of the coal particle accumulation during the transportation of the pulverized coal according to the size data;
establishing a constitutive theoretical model to describe all flow regimes of a coal granular medium, wherein the all flow regimes of the coal granular medium comprise solid-like, liquid-like, gas-like and inertial regimes;
numerically discretizing the constitutive theoretical model by using a numerical method to obtain discrete equations;
calculating a movement process of the coal granular medium according to the discrete equations and the particle model of the coal granular medium to obtain a calculation result, wherein the calculation result comprises a field variable and a displacement;
plotting the calculation result by using post-processing software Tecplot to obtain relevant information of a coal particle flow, wherein the relevant information comprises a spatial distribution, a velocity field distribution, a spreading range and accumulation height information of the coal particle flow; and
determining whether the pulverized coal transportation process is safe according to the relevant information of the coal particle flow;
wherein the determining whether the pulverized coal transportation process is safe according to the relevant information of the coal particle flow specifically comprises:
obtaining historical data on slippage of the pulverized coal;
obtaining a threshold of safety-related parameters of the pulverized coal transportation process according to the historical data on slippage of the pulverized coal, wherein the safety-related parameters of the pulverized coal transportation process comprise the spatial distribution, the velocity field distribution, the spreading range and the accumulation height information of the coal particle flow;
determining whether the spatial distribution, the velocity field distribution, the spreading range and the accumulation height information of the coal particle flow are greater than the respective threshold;
determining that the pulverized coal transportation process is not safe if the safety-related parameters of the pulverized coal transportation process are greater than the respective threshold; and
determining that the pulverized coal transportation process is safe if the safety-related parameters of the pulverized coal transportation process are not greater than the respective threshold.

2. The method for determining transportation safety of pulverized coal according to claim 1 , wherein the determining a particle model of the coal particle accumulation during the transportation of the pulverized coal according to the size data specifically comprises:
determining a three-dimensional (3D) geometric model of the coal particle accumulation during the transportation of the pulverized coal according to the size data; and
meshing the 3D geometric model by using meshing software to obtain a particle model.

3. The method for determining transportation safety of pulverized coal according to claim 1 , wherein the establishing a constitutive theoretical model to describe all flow regimes of a coal granular medium specifically comprises:
defining solid-like and liquid-like particles as a dense coal particle flow, gas-like particles as a sparse coal particle flow and inertial particles as an ultra-sparse coal particle flow according to different levels of sparseness;
establishing a theoretical model to describe a dense coal particle flow region, a theoretical model to describe a sparse coal particle flow region and a theoretical model to describe an ultra-sparse coal particle flow region respectively; and
establishing a principle of transformation between the dense coal particle flow and the sparse coal particle flow and a principle of transformation between the sparse coal particle flow and the ultra-sparse coal particle flow respectively.

4. The method for determining transportation safety of pulverized coal according to claim 1 , wherein the calculating a movement process of the coal granular medium according to the discrete equations and the particle model of the coal granular medium to obtain a calculation result specifically comprises:
setting an initial velocity of the coal granular medium to 0 and an initial pseudo-temperature to 0, and determining an initial position of the coal granular medium according to the particle model of the coal granular medium;
calculating a variation of the field variable per unit time and a variation of the displacement per unit time at each time step starting from moment 0 by the discrete equations; and
performing leapfrog time update according to the variation of the field variable per unit time and the variation of the displacement per unit time to determine the field variable and displacement at all moments.

Assignees

• Univ Northwestern Polytechnical

Inventors

• Chen Fuzhen
• Yan Hong

Classifications

• G01N33/222 Primary

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• G06F2111/10

  Numerical modelling · CPC title

• F23K2203/008

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• G01N15/00

  Investigating characteristics of particles; Investigating permeability, pore-volume or surface-area of porous materials · CPC title

• G06T17/00

  Three-dimensional [3D] modelling for computer graphics · CPC title