Measurement and correlation of laminar flame speeds of CO and C2 hydrocarbons with hydrogen addition at atmospheric and elevated pressures

2011 ◽  
Vol 36 (20) ◽  
pp. 13171-13180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fujia Wu ◽  
Andrew P. Kelley ◽  
Chenglong Tang ◽  
Delin Zhu ◽  
Chung K. Law
Author(s):  
M. El-Gamal ◽  
E. Gutheil ◽  
J. Warnatz

In high-pressure flames that occur in many practical combustion devices such as industrial furnaces, rocket propulsion and internal engine combustion, the assumption of an ideal gas is not appropriate. The present paper presents a model that includes modifications of the equation of state, transport and thermodynamic properties. The model is implemented into a Fortran program that was developed to simulate numerically one-dimensional planar premixed flames. The influence of the modifications for the real gas behavior on the laminar flame speed and on flame structure is illustrated for stoichiometric H


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mingshan Sun ◽  
Zhiwen Gan

Abstract The hydrogen addition is a potential way to reduce the soot emission of aviation kerosene. The current study analyzed the effect of hydrogen addition on aviation kerosene (Jet A1) soot formation in a laminar flame at elevated pressure to obtain a fundamental understanding of the reduced soot formation by hydrogen addition. The soot formation of flame was simulated by CoFlame code. The soot formation of kerosene-nitrogen-air, (kerosene + replaced hydrogen addition)-nitrogen-air, (kerosene + direct hydrogen addition)-nitrogen-air and (kerosene + direct nitrogen addition)-nitrogen-air laminar flames were simulated. The calculated pressure includes 1, 2 and 5 atm. The hydrogen addition increases the peak temperature of Jet A1 flame and extends the height of flame. The hydrogen addition suppresses the soot precursor formation of Jet A1 by physical dilution effect and chemical inhibition effect, which weaken the poly-aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) condensation process and reduce the soot formation. The elevated pressure significantly accelerates the soot precursor formation and increases the soot formation in flame. Meanwhile, the ratio of reduced soot volume fraction to base soot volume fraction by hydrogen addition decreases with the increase of pressure, indicating that the elevated pressure weakens the suppression effect of hydrogen addition on soot formation in Jet A1 flame.


Fuel ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 234 ◽  
pp. 238-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haoran Zhao ◽  
Jinhua Wang ◽  
Xiao Cai ◽  
Zemin Tian ◽  
Qianqian Li ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
William Lowry ◽  
Jaap de Vries ◽  
Michael Krejci ◽  
Eric Petersen ◽  
Zeynep Serinyel ◽  
...  

Alkanes such as methane, ethane, and propane make up a large portion of most natural gas fuels. Natural gas is the primary fuel used in industrial gas turbines for power generation. Because of this, a fundamental understanding of the physical characteristics such as the laminar flame speed is necessary. Most importantly, this information is needed at elevated pressures to have the most relevance to the gas turbine industry for engine design. This study includes experiments performed at elevated pressures, up to 10 atm initial pressure, and investigates the fuels in a pure form as well as in binary blends. Flame speed modeling was done using an improved version of the kinetics model that the authors have been developing over the past few years. Modeling was performed for a wide range of conditions, including elevated pressures. Experimental conditions include pure methane, pure ethane, 80/20 mixtures of methane/ethane, and 60/40 mixtures of methane/ethane at initial pressures of 1 atm, 5 atm, and 10 atm. Also included in this study are pure propane and 80/20 methane/propane mixtures at 1 atm and 5 atm. The laminar flame speed and Markstein length measurements were obtained from a high-pressure flame speed facility using a constant-volume vessel. The facility includes optical access, a high-speed camera, a schlieren optical setup, a mixing manifold, and an isolated control room. The experiments were performed at room temperature, and the resulting images were analyzed using linear regression. The experimental and modeling results are presented and compared with previously published data. The data herein agree well with the published data. In addition, a hybrid correlation was created to perform a rigorous uncertainty analysis. This correlation gives the total uncertainty of the experiment with respect to the true value rather than reporting the standard deviation of a repeated experiment. Included in the data set are high-pressure results at conditions where in many cases for the single-component fuels few data existed and for the binary blends no data existed prior to this study. Overall, the agreement between the model and data is excellent.


Author(s):  
Michael C. Krejci ◽  
Olivier Mathieu ◽  
Andrew J. Vissotski ◽  
Sankaranarayanan Ravi ◽  
Travis G. Sikes ◽  
...  

Laminar flame speeds and ignition delay times have been measured for hydrogen and various compositions of H2/CO (syngas) at elevated pressures and elevated temperatures. Two constant-volume cylindrical vessels were used to visualize the spherical growth of the flame through the use of a schlieren optical setup to measure the laminar flame speed of the mixture. Hydrogen experiments were performed at initial pressures up to 10 atm and initial temperatures up to 443 K. A syngas composition of 50/50 by volume was chosen to demonstrate the effect of carbon monoxide on H2-O2 chemical kinetics at standard temperature and pressures up to 10 atm. All atmospheric mixtures were diluted with standard air, while all elevated-pressure experiments were diluted with a He:O2 ratio of 7:1 to minimize instabilities. The laminar flame speed measurements of hydrogen and syngas are compared to available literature data over a wide range of equivalence ratios, where good agreement can be seen with several data sets. Additionally, an improved chemical kinetics model is shown for all conditions within the current study. The model and the data presented herein agree well, which demonstrates the continual, improved accuracy of the chemical kinetics model. A high-pressure shock tube was used to measure ignition delay times for several baseline compositions of syngas at three pressures across a wide range of temperatures. The compositions of syngas (H2/CO) by volume presented in this study included 80/20, 50/50, 40/60, 20/80, and 10/90, all of which are compared to previously published ignition delay times from a hydrogen-oxygen mixture to demonstrate the effect of carbon monoxide addition. Generally, an increase in carbon monoxide increases the ignition delay time, but there does seem to be a pressure dependency. At low temperatures and pressures higher than about 12 atm, the ignition delay times appear to be indistinguishable with an increase in carbon monoxide. However, at high temperatures the relative composition of H2 and CO has a strong influence on ignition delay times. Model agreement is good across the range of the study, particularly at the elevated pressures.


2012 ◽  
Vol 159 (4) ◽  
pp. 1417-1425 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fujia Wu ◽  
Andrew P. Kelley ◽  
Chung K. Law

2021 ◽  
Vol 312 ◽  
pp. 07022
Author(s):  
Alfredo Lanotte ◽  
Vincenzo De Bellis ◽  
Enrica Malfi

Nowadays there is an increasing interest in carbon-free fuels such as ammonia and hydrogen. Those fuels, on one hand, allow to drastically reduce CO2 emissions, helping to comply with the increasingly stringent emission regulations, and, on the other hand, could lead to possible advantages in performances if blended with conventional fuels. In this regard, this work focuses on the 1D numerical study of an internal combustion engine supplied with different fuels: pure gasoline, and blends of methane-hydrogen and ammonia-hydrogen. The analyses are carried out with reference to a downsized turbocharged two-cylinder engine working in an operating point representative of engine operations along WLTC, namely 1800 rpm and 9.4 bar of BMEP. To evaluate the potential of methane-hydrogen and ammonia-hydrogen blends, a parametric study is performed. The varied parameters are air/fuel proportions (from 1 up to 2) and the hydrogen fraction over the total fuel. Hydrogen volume percentages up to 60% are considered both in the case of methane-hydrogen and ammonia-hydrogen blends. Model predictive capabilities are enhanced through a refined treatment of the laminar flame speed and chemistry of the end gas to improve the description of the combustion process and knock phenomenon, respectively. After the model validation under pure gasoline supply, numerical analyses allowed to estimate the benefits and drawbacks of considered alternative fuels in terms of efficiency, carbon monoxide, and pollutant emissions.


Author(s):  
Baris Yilmaz ◽  
Sibel O¨zdogan ◽  
Iskender Go¨kalp

Hydrogenated premixed methane/air flames under lean conditions are simulated in this study. The computational model of the high pressure chamber setup of Orleans - ICARE (France) has been developed. The k-ε turbulence model with Pope-correction is used for turbulence modeling. The laminar flame properties are computed using GRI-Mech 3.0 mechanism with Chemkin software package. The turbulent flame front statistics are investigated with three premixed combustion models, namely Zimont, Coherent Flame Model (CFM) and modified version of CFM model (MCFM) models. It has been observed that increasing the volumetric percentage of hydrogen in the mixture results in reducing the flame-end position. The flame brush thickness becomes thinner as well. Satisfactory results have been obtained compared to experiments.


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