Improvement of flame stability and NOx reduction in hydrogen-added ultra lean premixed combustion |
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Authors: | Eun-Seong Cho Suk Ho Chung |
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Affiliation: | (1) Process and Energy, Delft University of Technology, 2628 CA Delft, The Netherlands;(2) School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, 151-744, Korea |
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Abstract: | Lean premixed combustion is a well known method in gas turbine combustors that can reduce fuel consumption and decrease flame
temperature. In lean premixed flames, flame instabilities can occur because the combustion takes place near the lean flammable
limit. For the purpose of increasing flame stability, a small amount of hydrogen was added into a fuel, which has ultra low
lean flammable limit. The extinction stretch rate increased and total equivalence ratio at extinction decreased with hydrogen
addition; consequently, ultra lean premixed combustion was possible and flame stability could be achieved at low temperature
conditions. The NOx emission increased with hydrogen addition for the same stretch rate and equivalence ratio, but the extinction stretch rate
and lean flammability limit was enlarged. Consequently, NOx emission decreased with hydrogen addition in the near extinction conditions. Hydrogen addition could improve flame stability
and reduce NOx emission in ultra lean premixed combustion.
This paper was recommended for publication in revised form by Associate Editor Ohchae Kwon
Dr. Eun-Seong Cho received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Hanyang University, Korea, in 1996 and 1998, respectively.
He then received his Ph.D. degree from Seoul National University, Korea, in 2005. He was a principal engineer of KD Navien
research center and currently a research associate at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. His research interests
include eco-friendly clean combustion technology, new and renewable energy systems.
Prof. Suk Ho Chung received his B.S. degree from Seoul National University, Korea, in 1976 and Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Northwestern
University, USA, in 1983. He is a Professor since 1984 in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Seoul National
University in Seoul, Korea. His research interests cover combustion fundamentals, pollutant formation, laser diagnostics,
and plasma-assisted combustion. |
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Keywords: | Extinction stretch rate Flame stability Hydrogen addition NOx emission Ultra lean premixed combustion |
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