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17.1.1 Overview and Limitations NOx emission consists of mostly nitric oxide (NO). Less significant are nitrogen oxide (NO 2) and nitrous oxide (N 2O). NOx is a precursor for photochemical smog, contributes to acid rain, and causes ozone depletion. Thus, NOx is a pollutant. The FLUENT NOx model provides a tool to understand the sources of NOx production and to aid in the design of NOx control measures. NOx Modeling in FLUENT The FLUENT NOx model provides the capability to model thermal, prompt, and fuel NOx formation as well as NOx consumption due to reburning in combustion systems. It uses rate models developed at the Department of Fuel and Energy, The University of Leeds, England as well as from the open literature. To predict NOx emission, FLUENT solves a transport equation for nitric oxide (NO) concentration. With fuel NOx sources, FLUENT solves an additional transport equation for an intermediate species (HCN or NH 3). The NOx transport equations are solved based on a given flow field and combustion solution. In other words, NOx is postprocessed from a combustion simulation. It is thus evident that an accurate combustion solution becomes a prerequisite of NOx prediction. For example, thermal NOx production doubles for every 90?K temperature increase when the flame temperature is about 2200?K. Great care must be exercised to provide accurate thermophysical data and boundary condition inputs for the combustion model. Appropriate turbulence, chemistry, radiation and other submodels must be applied. To be realistic, one can only expect results to be as accurate as the input data and the selected physical models. Under most circumstances, NOx variation trends can be accurately predicted but the NOx quantity itself cannot be pinpointed. Accurate prediction of NOx parametric trends can cut down on the number of laboratory tests, allow more design variations to be studied, shorten the design cycle, and reduce product development cost. That is truly the power of th