Numerical investigation of the effect of constant velocity and constant residence time scaling criteria on the natural gas MILD combustion

This paper concerns with effect of scaling on performance of MILD combustor when increasing its geometry and thermal throughput from the 0.58 MW prototype to its scaled-up versions of 5.8 MW. The constant velocity (CV) and constant residence time (CRT) scaling approaches were used in this work. Their performances were simulated with a numerical model for MILD combustion which was thoroughly validated against existing experimental data. It was...