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The growth of production capacity requires a constant increase in fuel consumption, which leads to an inevitable decrease in fossil fuels, whose reserves are limited. As a result, it is necessary to gradually switch to the use of secondary energy resources, in particular, the use of secondary gases generated as a result of production processes. This article discusses the use of natural gas conversion by adding it to a high-temperature converter gas stream in order to reduce its temperature to reduce the thermal load on the heating surface and further use as the main fuel in power units. Using the Ansys Fluent universal software package, a computational model of a natural fuel converter gas pipeline was developed, and the distribution contours of the composition and temperature of the fuel mixture formed by the chemical interaction of gases were obtained. The analysis of the obtained fuel mixture was carried out, and the efficiency of the obtained synthesis gas was compared with the initial fuel. It was shown that as a result of a chemical reaction, the resulting gas has an increase in thermal efficiency by 64 %. The results of this study demonstrate the possibility of further application of the resulting fuel mixture as the main fuel for technological processes.

The wet method of cleaning the blast furnace gas from the particles of grate dust is one of the most common. The hollow nozzle scrubber is the device for wet cleaning of blast furnace gas in which the cleaning of blast furnace gas is carried out due to the interaction of particles of grate dust with droplets of dispersed technical water. The principle of cleaning the blast furnace gas in the hollow nozzle scrubber is based on the inertial mechanism of collision of grate dust particles with droplets of dispersed process water. After the particles are wetted, stick together and fall out of the flow of the cleaned gas under the influence of gravity. In this paper, we propose a method for calculating the efficiency of blast furnace gas purification in a hollow nozzle straight-through scrubber, which is based on the division of the volume of this gas purification apparatus into even sections. Because the trajectory of the droplet in the blast furnace gas flow in the hollow nozzle scrubber has a parabolic shape, radial component of the absolute velocity of the droplet s taken into account in this technique to determine the efficiency of catching dust particles. The correction factor in the expression for determining the fractional efficiency coefficient of the blast furnace gas purification from the grate dust determines the presence of «dead zones» when the dusty gas is irrigated with technical water sprayed by involute injectors. In addition, the presented method takes into account the increase in the efficiency of cleaning the blast furnace gas due to the process of condensation of water vapor from the flow of dusty gas in the lower part of the hollow nozzle scrubber.