Radiation is the most important regime of heat transfer of a flame which is directly affected by temperature and emissivity coefficient of the flame. Natural gas has a nonluminous flame, although, the flame temperature is high, but, the emissivity coefficient of the flame is small. In this paper the impacts of synchronous combustion of small amounts of anthracite coal particles with natural gas on the detailed emissivity coefficient of the flame, radiative species and pollutant emissions were investigated experimentally and numerically. A sprint CFD code was used in numerical solution and the pollutants were measured by a Testo 350XL gas analyzer. The results showed that a small amount of coal particles injected into the hot flame of natural gas increases the volume distribution and radiation view factor of high-emissive intermediate solid soot particles in the flame which enhances the total flame emissivity coefficient. Also, coal particle injection leads to a decrease in the upstream flame temperature and an increase in the downstream region creating a more uniform temperature distribution and decreases the concentration of thermal NO pollutant of the natural gas flame. Furthermore, the role of solid soot particles on the total emissivity coefficient is remarkable, while an increase in CO2 and H2O concentrations has an insignificant effect on the flame emissivity coefficient.

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