多孔介质燃烧器研究

多孔介质具有大蓄热和强辐射的特点,以能够提高燃烧的经济性被人们所重视。多孔介质燃烧技术是一种相比于传统燃烧技术是一种近几年来比较新颖独特的燃烧技术,本文介绍了多孔介质应用于燃烧技术及不同类型的多孔介质燃烧器的研究现状、前景、优点和应用,分析不同类型燃烧器之间的联系,并给出各种实验性燃烧器的优缺点。对于不同的多孔介质材料的研究进行介绍。     

多孔介质回热微燃烧器预混燃烧特性研究

设计了多孔介质回热徽燃烧器,对微燃烧器内H2/Ak的预混燃烧特性进行了实验研究和数值模拟,实验结果表明,当过量空气系数1.0＜α＜3.0时,微燃烧器具有较高的燃烧效率,出口烟气温度和较低的燃烧热损失率,且燃烧热功率P越高,α越大,热损失率越小.当P=100 W时,其出口烟气温度最高可达到1 232 K,当α=3.0时,燃烧效率仍达到96.85％,而热损失率仅为14.87％.数值模拟结果表明,由于采用了回热夹层和多孔介质回热结构,有效地回收了热量损失,使得微燃烧器具有良好的热性能.证明设计的多孔介质回热微燃烧器是一种燃烧效率高、热损失率低的微燃烧器.     

多入口多孔介质燃烧器的数值模拟

在多入口燃烧器内加入多孔介质,以甲烷/空气为燃料,采用非预混燃烧的数值模拟方法,探究多入口燃烧器的燃烧情况.对比多孔介质燃烧与空间自由燃烧,分析了"超焓燃烧"现象;在多孔介质燃烧基础上,探究不同当量比对燃烧温度的影响;在多孔介质燃烧和不同当量比的基础上探究污染物CO和CO_2的排放情况.结果表明:多孔介质燃烧可以实现"超焓燃烧"特性,燃烧火焰温度高于自由空间燃烧温度;当量比对燃烧温度影响很大,随着当量比的增大,燃烧器内最高燃烧温度升高,但燃烧过程存在一个最佳当量比0.6,超过该当量比后最高温度将不再变化;多入口多孔介质燃烧有助于减少CO和CO_2的生成量.     

有序堆积床内预混气体燃烧特性实验研究

为研究预混气体在多孔介质燃烧器中的火焰燃烧特性,设计了一种新型多孔介质燃烧器,其中多孔介质区域由氧化铝圆柱体有序堆积而成.分别研究了当量比和入口速度对甲烷/空气预混气体在多孔介质燃烧器中的火焰温度分布、火焰最高温度以及火焰传播速度的影响.结果 表明:在当量比0.162～0.324、入口速度0.287～0.860 m/s...     

反应物喷入条件对常温空气无焰燃烧的影响

针对工业锅炉中气体燃料燃烧过程,采用数值模拟与实验相结合的方法,研究了C3H8燃料和常温空气通过平行圆管喷嘴类型的燃烧器在不同喷入条件下对炉膛内无焰燃烧的温度变化趋势和燃烧产物的影响.结果表明,在燃料和空气入口流量保持不变的情况下,空气喷嘴孔数或燃料喷嘴孔径增加将加剧炉内局部燃烧,导致燃烧峰值温度和出口NO浓度升高;随着燃烧器空气喷嘴与燃料喷嘴间距增加,炉内峰值温度和出口NO浓度下降;炉内峰值温度不超过1 900 K时,有利于实现低氮氧化物排放的常温空气无焰燃烧.     

双燃料燃烧器结构对火焰温度对称性影响研究

探索了解决双液体燃料混燃燃烧火焰温度场不对称问题的方法以及研究了燃料比对火焰温度场对称性的影响。通过对三种不同结构的双燃料燃烧器进行不同燃料比下的燃烧实验,获得火焰温度场分布,来研究火焰温度场对称性。研究表明:具有2个互成180o对称布置的甲醇燃料喷嘴燃烧器和具有3个互成120o均匀布置的甲醇燃料喷嘴燃烧器,在一定程度上可以提高火焰温度场对称性;燃料比对三种燃烧器的火焰温度场对称性有较大的影响;具有2个互成180o对称布置的甲醇燃料喷嘴和具有3个互成120o均匀布置的甲醇燃料喷嘴的燃烧器火焰温度场对称性差距很小。     

泡沫陶瓷内甲烷预混燃烧火焰传播规律

研究了低浓度瓦斯气体在泡沫陶瓷内的预混燃烧,以及一段和两段多孔介质燃烧器内,泡沫陶瓷结构参数对燃烧和传热的影响.通过实验结果发现,20PPI多孔介质材料具有最佳的回热效果,因此设计燃烧器时需要根据消光系数和比表面积两个综合因素来确定回热效果.实验中发现在泡沫陶瓷出口段,加一段绝热段,有利于形成稳定高速的表面燃烧.     

多孔泡沫陶瓷中预混火焰燃烧速率的试验研究

本文对在多孔泡沫陶瓷中的甲烷／空气预混燃烧的燃速特性进行了实验研究，用一专用燃烧器对两种材质不同孔径尺寸的多孔介质分别测定了它们的预混燃烧速率。所得结果表明，其燃速与层流无多孔介质的自由火焰相比有显著的提高，并且受到材质和孔径大小的影响。同时，当量皆可燃稳定上下界限也有相应扩大。     

射流喷嘴旋流强度对燃烧室回流和燃烧特性的影响研究

随着燃气轮机参数的提高和稳定低排放运行工况的拓宽,对燃烧的要求也越来越高。柔和燃烧作为一种有潜力的燃烧技术,具有温度均匀、燃烧稳定和污染物排放低等优点,而如何在燃烧室内组织流动是实现柔和燃烧的关键。采用高速射流引射掺混的方式可以较好的满足柔和燃烧产生所需的条件。预混射流喷嘴结构和布置对流场和燃烧特性有重要影响,如何选择射流喷嘴结构值得进一步研究。本文通过实验和数值模拟相结合的方式,研究了柔和燃烧器中预混射流喷嘴的旋流强度对燃烧器流动结构和燃烧排放的影响。结果表明,旋流能增强燃料/空气的掺混,低旋流作用下能使喷嘴出口掺混不均匀度ISMD下降0. 15左右;但是喷嘴旋流对燃烧室的烟气回流有减弱的作用,使回流区向喷嘴和中轴线靠近;同时,旋流会造成温度场和火焰面不均匀分布,略微拓宽燃烧工况范围并略微增加火焰的稳定性。实验结果表明喷嘴旋流进气角从0°变化到45°时,NOx排放随旋流角的增大而增加。     

两层多孔介质燃烧器的数值模拟

通过一维数值模拟研究了预混气体在两层多孔介质燃烧器内的燃烧特性,着重研究两层多孔介质燃烧器中的超绝热燃烧和火焰的稳定区域。结果表明,预混气体在两层多孔介质内可以发生一定程度的超绝热燃烧,贫燃极限可以扩展到0.45。两层多孔介质能够在较宽的流速范围内将火焰稳定在它的交界面上。数值预测的最小和最大火焰传播速度与实验取得了相同的趋势,其火焰传播速度至少是自由空间中的3倍。     

Investigation of the structural and reactants properties on the thermal characteristics of a premixed porous burner

Porous burners offer attractive features such as competitive combustion efficiency, high power ranges, and lower pollutant emissions. In the present study, the thermal characteristics of a porous burner are numerically investigated for a range of operating conditions and design specifications within a practical range. The premixed flame propagation of a methane/air mixture in a ceramic porous medium is simulated through an unsteady, one-dimensional model. The combustion process is modeled using a suitable single-step chemical kinetics. The reaction location is not predetermined, thus the flame is allowed to float within the solid matrix or to run off from either side of the porous medium. The numerical results indicate that flame stability and thermal characteristics of the burner are strongly dependent on the inlet mixture specifications and the solid matrix structural properties. For a fixed value of the inlet firing rate, the combustion products temperature will increase by an increase in the inlet gas temperature, an increase in the matrix porosity, or by a decrease of the matrix pore density. Among the geometrical properties, the burner length has virtually no effect on the burner performance. An increase in the solid matrix porosity or burner firing rate will increase the efficiency of the preheating zone, while increasing the inlet gas temperature or matrix pore density will cause a reduction in this efficiency. Simulation results also suggest that in order to prevent flame blow-out or flash-back, critical values of the burner settings and design parameters must be avoided.     

Development and characterization of a low-NOx partially premixed hydrogen burner using numerical simulation and flame diagnostics

The utilization of hydrogen as a fuel in free jet burners faces particular challenges due to its special combustion properties. The high laminar and turbulent flame velocities may lead to issues in flame stability and operational safety in premixed and partially premixed burners. Additionally, a high adiabatic combustion temperature favors the formation of thermal nitric oxides (NO). This study presents the development and optimization of a partially premixed hydrogen burner with low emissions of nitric oxides. The single-nozzle burner features a very short premixing duct and a simple geometric design. In a first development step, the design of the burner is optimized by numerical investigation (Star CCM+) of mixture formation, which is improved by geometric changes of the nozzle. The impact of geometric optimization and of humidification of the combustion air on NO_x emissions is then investigated experimentally. The hydrogen flame is detected with an infrared camera to evaluate the flame stability for different burner configurations. The improved mixture formation by geometric optimization avoids temperature peaks and leads to a noticeable reduction in NO_x emissions for equivalence ratios below 0.85. The experimental investigations also show that NO_x emissions decrease with increasing relative humidity of combustion air. This single-nozzle forms the basis for multi-nozzle burners, where the desired output power can flexibly be adjusted by the number of single nozzles.     

Characteristics of flame stability and gaseous emission of biocrude-oil/ethanol blends in a pilot-scale spray burner

A burner system with capacity of 30,000 kcal/h was designed for the combustion of biocrude-oil and ethanol blends. An air atomizing spray nozzle with larger fuel orifice was adopted to prevent nozzle clogging, with swirl flow introduced to the combustion air for flame stabilization. Biocrude-oil was prepared from the fast pyrolysis of woody biomass and was blended with ethanol to improve flame stability and ignition characteristics. At various mixing ratios of biocrude-oil and ethanol, flame stability was determined, and gaseous emissions of CO and NO were measured. It was found that stable combustion could be achieved with up to 90 vol% of biocrude-oil. CO emissions of biocrude-oil/ethanol blends were smaller than those of pure ethanol, whereas CO concentration increased significantly in case of pure biocrude-oil due to incomplete combustion. Pollutant NO emission increased slightly with the biocrude-oil mixing ratio. The biocrude-oil burner in this study could provide a design database for industrial burner development.     

Experimental investigation of stabilization and emission characteristics of ammonia/air premixed flames in a swirl combustor

Ammonia is a possible candidate for use as a hydrogen energy carrier as well as a carbon-free fuel. In this study, flame stability and emission characteristics of swirl stabilized ammonia/air premixed flames were experimentally investigated. Results showed that ammonia/air premixed flame could be stabilized for various equivalence ratios and inlet flow velocity conditions in a swirl burner without any additives to enhance the reaction of ammonia even though the laminar burning velocity of ammonia is very slow. The lean and rich blowoff limits were found to be close to the flammability limits of the ammonia flame. In addition, emission characteristics were investigated using an FTIR gas analyzer. The NO concentration decreased and ammonia concentration increased under rich conditions. Moreover, it was found that there is an equivalence ratio in rich condition in which NO and ammonia emission are in the same order.     

Study on nonpremixed methane/air combustion from flame structure and NOX emission aspect for different burner head structures

In the present study, the air turbulator, which is a part of a nonpremixed burner, is investigated numerically in terms of its effects on the diffusion methane flame structure and NO_X emissions. A computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code was used for the numerical analysis. At first, four experiments were conducted using natural gas fuel. In the experimental studies, the excess air ratio was taken constant as 1.2, while the fuel consumption rate was changed between 22 and 51 Nm³/h. After the experimental studies, the CFD studies were carried out. Pure methane was taken as fuel for the simulations. The nonpremixed combustion model with the steady laminar flamelet model (SFM) approach was used in the combustion analyses. Methane‐air extinction mechanism with 17 species and 58 reactions was used for the simulations. The results obtained from the CFD studies were confronted with the measurements of the flue gas emissions in the experimental studies. Then, a modified burner head was analysed numerically for the different air turbulator blade numbers and angles. The CFD results show that increasing the air turbulator blade number and angle causes the thermal NO emissions to be reduced in the flue gas by making the flame in the combustion chamber more uniform than the original case. This new flame structure provides better mixing of the fuel and combustion air. Thus, the diffusion flame structure in the combustion chamber takes the form of the partially premixed flame structure. The maximum reduction in the thermal NO emissions in the flue gas is achieved at 38% according to the original case.     

Temperature Dependence of Laminar Burning Velocity in Ammonia/Dimethyl Ether-air Premixed Flames

The combustion of ammonia(NH3)has attracted wide interest in fuel vehicle engines,marine engines,and power generators to mitigate carbon dioxide emissions.Unfortunately,the relatively low laminar flame speed presents a technical barrier for this renewable fuel to be used in practice.This work is concerned with numerical examining the effects of elevating inlet temperature on the laminar burning velocity of NH3/air flames with various contents of dimethyl ether(DME)using ID freely propagating flame calculations,and to shed light on the flame enhancement mechanism.For this,the mechanism is first validated by comparing the numerical predictions with experimental data.Results show that increasing the inlet temperature has a positive effect on the laminar burning velocity of pure NH3/DME/air flames.It is revealed that elevating inlet temperature contributes to a higher adiabatic flame temperature,which is beneficial to the overall chemical reaction rate.Furthermore,the thermal diffusivity of the binary mixture is observed to increase substantially as well.Further kinetic and sensitivities analyses reveal that the inlet temperature has a minimal effect on the reaction pathway,leading to the relative importance of the dominant chain branching over terminating reaction steps to be varied negligibly.The present work confirms that the flame speed enhancement with increasing inlet temperature is primarily the synergetic result of the thermal and diffusion effects,rather than the chemical effect.     

多孔介质稳焰器对旋流火焰振荡燃烧特性影响的试验研究

为研究多孔介质稳焰器孔密度变化对贫预混旋流火焰振荡燃烧特性的影响,通过光电倍增管测量全局火焰热释放率,采用双麦克风方法测量旋流器入口速度脉动,获得不同孔密度多孔介质稳焰器火焰传递函数;并通过高速相机测量不同孔密度多孔介质稳焰器振荡火焰结构的变化。试验结果表明：多孔介质能够改变燃烧室声模态,有效抑制燃烧振荡,但孔密度对受迫燃烧火焰热释放率和压力脉动影响具有非线性;高频入口扰动对火焰响应特性影响较弱,火焰受迫响应呈现低通滤波特性;火焰传递函数增益峰值对应入口激励频率存在差异,但相位分布斜率基本一致;多孔介质导致火焰向稳焰器中心轴线聚拢,相干结构更加明显;宽频扰动范围内的火焰张角分布趋势与火焰传递函数增益曲线的分布趋势相反。     

Numerical investigation of spray combustion in jet mixing type combustor for low NOx emission

The present paper describes a numerical investigation of spray combustion in a jet mixing type combustor. In this combustor, kerosene spray was injected with a pressure atomizer, and high speed combustion air was introduced towards the spray flow through some inlet air nozzles to improve mixing of the spray and the air. In the numerical simulation, the conservative equations of mass, momentum and energy in the turbulent flow field were solved in conjunction with the k–ε two equation turbulence model. The effects of the diameter and the number of air inlet nozzles on the combustion behavior and NO emission were numerically investigated. When the diameter of the inlet air nozzle decreased from 8 to 4 mm, the calculated NO mole fraction in the exhaust gas was drastically decreased by about 80%. An increase in the inlet velocity resulted in improvement of the mixing of the spray and the air, and hence, the high temperature region where thermal NO was formed became narrow. As a result, the exhaust NO mole fraction decreased. Furthermore, a decrease in exhaust NO mole fraction was explained by a decrease in the residence time in the high temperature region above 1800 K.     

Numerical investigation on the self-ignition and combustion characteristics of H2/air in catalytic micro channel

The self-ignition of hydrogen/air is an important process in the micro thermophotovoltaic system. The transient numerical models of gas-phase reaction and catalytic reaction in the various catalytic micro combustors were built and verified. The self-ignition process of gas-phase reaction caused by catalytic reaction in the catalytic micro channel with conventional heat dissipation was studied. The self-ignition process could be divided into four stages, fuel diffusion stage - pure catalytic reaction stage - flame front moving stage - stable combustion stage. The ignition time and temperature limit at different inlet temperatures, inlet velocities and channel heights were analyzed. The results showed that the wall quenching effect, thermal effect and flame propagation effect are dominant at low temperature, medium temperature and high temperature respectively. The catalyst length and the mixture internal energy were the main factor at low inlet velocity and high inlet velocity respectively. The steady-state time was also studied in the various operation conditions. Finally, the catalytic combustion characteristics in the stable combustion stage were analyzed. The influence of inert section length, inlet temperature and inlet velocity on the maximum temperature and fuel conversion ratio were investigated.