Effects of steam dilution on laminar flame speeds of H2/air/H2O mixtures at atmospheric and elevated pressures

The laminar flame speeds of H₂/air with steam dilution (up to 33 vol%) were measured over a wide range of equivalence ratio (0.9–3.0) at atmospheric and elevated pressures (up to 5 atm) by an improved Bunsen burner method. Burke, Sun, HP (High Pressure H₂/O₂ mechanism), and Davis mechanisms were employed to calculate the laminar flame speeds and analyze different effects of steam addition. Four studied mechanisms all underestimated the laminar flame speeds of H₂/air/H₂O mixtures at medium equivalence ratios while the Burke mechanism provided the best estimates. When the steam concentration was lower than 12%, increasing pressure first increased and then decreased the laminar flame speed, the inflection point appeared at 2.5 atm. When the steam concentration was greater than 12%, increasing the pressure monotonously decrease the laminar flame speed. The chemical effect was amplified by elevated pressure and it played an important role for the inhibiting effect of the pressure on laminar flame speed. The fluctuations of the chemical effect at 1 atm were mainly caused by three-body reactions, while the turn at 5 atm was mainly caused by the direct reaction effect. Elevated pressure and steam addition amplified the influences of uncertainties in the rate constants for elementary reactions, which might leaded to the disagreement between experimental and simulation results.     

An analytic model for the effects of nitrogen dilution and premixing characteristics on NOx formation in turbulent premixed hydrogen flames

Advanced hydrogen gas turbine is a promising technology to achieve near-zero emission of carbon dioxide and higher cycle efficiency. With the increased firing temperature and pressure ratio, nitrogen reinjection combined with dry premixed combustion is promising to achieve the challenging low NOx emission. In this study, the effects of nitrogen dilution and fuel/air premixing characteristics on the flame characteristics and NOx emission are investigated first through simulating one-dimensional premixed flames with a 13-species and 39-reaction mechanism at the elevated engine operation conditions. The variation of flame thicknesses and laminar flame speeds with nitrogen dilution is investigated. The NOx formation is characterized by the flame-front NOx and the constant NOx formation rates in the post-flame region. It is shown that the flame-front NOx is an order of 1 ppm and does not change significantly (within 20%) with nitrogen dilution. In contrast, the NOx formation rates in the post-flame region decrease monotonically with nitrogen dilution due to the decrease of oxygen concentration. A detailed analysis of NOx formation reveals that the N₂O pathway is significant and it can account for at least 20% of the NOx formation in the post-flame region. Then an analytic model considering both the extended Zeldovich mechanism and the N₂O pathway is constructed by assuming the involved radicals being in chemical equilibrium. The model can be employed to efficiently estimate the NOx formation in fully premixed hydrogen gas turbines. Next, the effects of fuel/air premixing characteristics on the mean NOx formation rate in the post-flame region are quantified by reconstructing the PDF of mixture fraction. It is shown that without the nitrogen dilution, the NOx formation rate increases dramatically with fuel/air unmixedness due to the existence of local hot spots. Nitrogen dilution can dramatically reduce the NOx formation rate at the same level of unmixedness through reducing the local hot spots. Moreover, nitrogen dilution reduces the sensitivity of the NOx formation rate to fuel/air unmixedness, which greatly alleviates the mixing requirement for the premixing nozzles in gas turbines. Finally, a model for the estimation of NOx emission is constructed, which builds the connection between NOx emission, nitrogen dilution, unmixedness and flow residence time in combustors.     

湍流射流火焰抬举高度的实验研究

湍流射流燃烧作为工业燃烧室中普遍存在的燃烧方式,研究湍流射流火焰不仅能促进实际燃烧室的设计改造,更能增强对湍流燃烧理论的理解。在轴对称伴流射流燃烧器实验平台上,研究了湍流自由射流火焰抬举高度随射流速度的变化及氮气稀释和伴流速度对火焰抬举高度的影响。实验结果表明湍流自由射流燃烧火焰抬举高度随射流速度呈线性增长;随氮气稀释摩尔分数的增加其抬举高度的线性斜率增大,射流火焰吹出喷嘴的雷诺数降低,火焰更易发生抬举;同时,氮气稀释摩尔分数的增加也导致射流火焰发生吹熄时雷诺数减小,射流火焰在射流速度完全进入湍流之前发生吹熄;伴流速度小于0.3 m/s时对火焰抬举高度的影响不大,当伴流速度大于0.3 m/s时抬举高度随伴流速度的增加呈线性增长,当射流速度大于20 m/s时,伴流速度的影响降低;对比伴流与稀释对抬举高度的影响可知射流速度大于30 m/s时对伴流的敏感性大于稀释,而在射流速度小于30 m/s时对稀释更敏感。     

Intrinsic instability of flame–acoustic coupling

This paper shows that a flame can be an intrinsically unstable acoustic element. The finding is clarified in the framework of an acoustic network model, where the flame is described by an acoustic scattering matrix. The instability of the flame acoustic coupling is shown to become dominating in the limit of no acoustic reflections. This is in contrast to classical standing-wave thermoacoustic modes, which originate from the positive feedback loop between system acoustics and the flame. These findings imply that the effectiveness of passive thermoacoustic damping devices is limited by the intrinsic stability properties of the flame.     

Numerical and experimental study on silica generating counterflow diffusion flames

Temperatures and concentrations of OH radicals in silica generating counterflow oxy-hydrogen diffusion flames are measured using a broadband coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy (CARS) and a planar laser induced fluorescence (PLIF) techniques to study thermo-chemical effects of SiCl₄ addition to flames. Numerical analysis considering detailed chemical reactions including silica generating reactions is also conducted. The experimental results demonstrate that temperatures decrease in preheated zone due to the increase in specific heat of the gas mixture while the decrease is mitigated in particle formation zone due to the heat release through hydrolysis and oxidation reactions of SiCl₄. Also, OH concentrations significantly decrease in silica formation flame, which can be attributed to the consumption of oxidative radicals during the silica generating reactions of SiCl₄ and depletion of OH by HCl. The numerical simulation agrees well for flames having relatively low flame temperatures of 1750 K but underestimates the decrease in OH concentration for high temperature flame over 2700 K. The disagreement for the high temperature flames would imply possible OH consumption via direct reactions between OH radicals and silicon chlorides, which is expected to be highly sensitive to temperature.     

Numerical Simulation of Microgravity Flame Spread Over Solid Combustibles

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低气压富氧环境对薄壁材料火焰传播速度的影响

通过模拟高原低气压环境,研究富氧环境下火焰沿薄壁材料表面传播速度的变化情况.研究表明,大气压力不变时,氧气体积分数越大,火焰传播速度越快;氧气体积分数不变时,火焰传播速度随着大气压力的增大而加快;维持氧分压为一定值时,大气压力越大火焰传播速度越小.大气压力为1 01.3 kPa、氧气体积分数分别为20.9%和23%时,火焰沿薄壁材料表面的传播速度为2.47 mm/s和3.01 mm/s,参照此速度得出了在不同大气压力下,火焰传播速度为2.47 mm/s和3.01 mm/s时对应的氧气体积分数.     

富氧煤粉气流着火机理的实验研究

针对环境氧浓度发生变化时,煤粉气流的反应动力学级数和机理都会发生变化的情况,采用一维火焰炉对神木烟煤在富氧条件下的着火机理进行了实验研究.结果表明:采用着火时烟气中CO和CO2体积分数的变化规律来判断煤粉气流的着火是可行的;当环境中氧气体积分数从21%升高到40%时,神木烟煤的着火完成了从均相着火向多相着火的转变,同时随着着火温度的降低,着火时刻烟气中热解产物的含量迅速降低.     

CO2和N2稀释对CO混合燃料扩散火焰NO生成排放特性的影响

以CO为主燃料的混合燃料为研究对象,以层流对冲扩散火焰为基础,应用CHENKlN软件的OPPDIF模型,采用包含53种组分、325个基元反应的甲烷燃烧详细反应机理(GRI-Mech 3.0),研究以CO为主燃料混合燃料燃烧特性和NO抑制措施.结果表明:CO2和N2无论是稀释空气侧还是燃料侧都可以显著降低NO的生成,稀释...     

High-sensitivity detection of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons adsorbed onto soot particles using laser desorption/laser ionization/time-of-flight mass spectrometry: An approach to studying the soot inception process in low-pressure flames

Species adsorbed at the surfaces of soot particles sampled at different locations in a low-pressure methane flame have been analyzed. The analysis method is laser desorption/laser ionization/time-of-flight mass spectrometry (LD/LI/TOF-MS) applied to soot particles deposited on a filter after probe extraction in the flame. In order to fully characterize the experimental apparatus, a strategy of systematic investigations has been adopted, beginning with the study of less complex systems constituted by model soot (standard polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, PAHs, adsorbed on black carbon), and then natural soot sampled from a literature reference ethylene flame. This characterization allowed a good understanding of the analytical response of PAHs to the desorption and ionization processes and the definition of the optimal experimental conditions. The soot PAH content was then investigated on a low-pressure methane/oxygen/nitrogen premixed flat flame (? = 2.32) as a function of the sampling height above the burner (HAB). The obtained mass spectra are reproducible, fragment-free, well resolved in the analyzed m/z range and they are characterized by an excellent signal-to-noise ratio. They all feature regular peak sequences, where each signal peak has been assigned to the most stable high-temperature-formed PAHs. The structure of the mass spectra depends on the sampling HAB into the flame, i.e., on the reaction time. An original contribution to the data interpretation comes from the development of a new sampling method that makes it possible to infer hypotheses about the PAH partition between the gas phase and the soot particles. This method highlights the presence of high-mass PAHs in the soot nucleation zone, and it suggests the importance of heterogeneous reactions occurring between flame PAHs and soot particles.