A measurement of laminar flame speed of gasoline surrogate fuel / air mixture under high pressure condition using double kernel method

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 (0) ◽  
pp. J0710105
Author(s):  
Hirotsugu KANEKO ◽  
Takehiko SEO ◽  
Masato MIKAMI
Keyword(s):  
High Pressure ◽  
Laminar Flame ◽  
Kernel Method ◽  
Flame Speed ◽  
Laminar Flame Speed ◽  
Pressure Condition ◽  
Surrogate Fuel

A method for determining hydrogen–methane–nitrogen mixtures for laboratory tests of syngas-fuelled internal combustion engines

2020 ◽  
pp. 146808742094613
Author(s):  
Paolo Gobbato ◽  
Massimo Masi ◽  
Luigi De Simio ◽  
Sabato Iannaccone
Keyword(s):  
Energy Density ◽  
Internal Combustion Engines ◽  
Laminar Flame ◽  
Original Method ◽  
Flame Speed ◽  
Laminar Flame Speed ◽  
Combustion Engines ◽  
Surrogate Fuels ◽  
Surrogate Fuel ◽  
Methane Number

An original method for formulating surrogate fuels from actual syngas mixtures is presented and formalised. The method is the first example in the scientific literature of a rather complete tool for planning and setting up a laboratory syngas-fuelled engine test when some components of the syngas mixture are not available. Basically, the method allows a map to be built that provides the composition for a surrogate fuel once the composition of a syngas mixture is assigned, the components of a surrogate fuel are selected and the equivalence parameters are defined. The laminar flame speed, the energy density of the fuel–air mixture and the methane number are identified as equivalence parameters in the study. In particular, the proper laminar flame speed and energy density ensure that an engine fuelled by the surrogate mixture produces the same indicated power as it would when fuelled by the original syngas. Instead, the methane number allows for checking the fact that the tendency of the engine to knock is the same or greater than the knock tendency during syngas operation. In this article, the method is used to determine the hydrogen–methane–nitrogen mixtures corresponding to six five-component syngas mixtures, resulting from actual gasification processes. The laminar flame speed and methane number of each syngas mixture are estimated by means of simple original models aimed at either improving the predicting capabilities of existing models or allowing for a prompt application of the procedure. The results show that four of the six surrogate fuels are equally or more knock-prone than the original syngas mixtures, whereas only one of the two remaining surrogate fuels likely imposes a retardation of the spark advance in the final setup of the engine for actual syngas operation.

Laminar Flame Speed Measurements and Modeling of Pure Alkanes and Alkane Blends at Elevated Pressures

2011 ◽  
Vol 133 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
William Lowry ◽  
Jaap de Vries ◽  
Michael Krejci ◽  
Eric Petersen ◽  
Zeynep Serinyel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Pressure ◽  
Natural Gas ◽  
Gas Turbines ◽  
Laminar Flame ◽  
Flame Speed ◽  
Published Data ◽  
Laminar Flame Speed ◽  
Binary Blends ◽  
Elevated Pressures ◽  
True Value

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.

Laminar Flame Speed Measurements and Modeling of Pure Alkanes and Alkane Blends at Elevated Pressures

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Lowry ◽  
Jaap de Vries ◽  
Michael Krejci ◽  
Eric Petersen ◽  
Zeynep Serinyel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Pressure ◽  
Natural Gas ◽  
Gas Turbines ◽  
Laminar Flame ◽  
Flame Speed ◽  
Published Data ◽  
Laminar Flame Speed ◽  
Binary Blends ◽  
Elevated Pressures ◽  
True Value

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, 5, and 10 atm. Also included in this study are pure propane and 80/20 methane/propane mixtures at 1 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 to 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.

A Numerical Study on the Reactivity of Biogas/Reformed-Gas/Air and Methane/Reformed-Gas/Air Mixtures at Gas Turbine Relevant Conditions

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pablo Diaz Gomez Maqueo ◽  
Philippe Versailles ◽  
Gilles Bourque ◽  
Jeffrey M. Bergthorson
Keyword(s):  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Laminar Flame ◽  
Numerical Study ◽  
Flame Temperature ◽  
Flame Speed ◽  
Flame Stability ◽  
Laminar Flame Speed ◽  
Fuel Reforming ◽  
Numerical Work ◽  
Chemical Effects

This study investigates the increase in methane and biogas flame reactivity enabled by the addition of syngas produced through fuel reforming. To isolate thermodynamic and chemical effects on the reactivity of the mixture, the burner simulations are performed with a constant adiabatic flame temperature of 1800 K. Compositions and temperatures are calculated with the chemical equilibrium solver of CANTERA® and the reactivity of the mixture is quantified using the adiabatic, freely-propagating premixed flame, and perfectly-stirred reactors of the CHEMKIN-Pro® software package. The results show that the produced syngas has a content of up to 30 % H2 with a temperature up to 950 K. When added to the fuel, it increases the laminar flame speed while maintaining a burning temperature of 1800 K. Even when cooled to 300 K, the laminar flame speed increases up to 30 % from the baseline of pure biogas. Hence, a system can be developed that controls and improves biogas flame stability under low reactivity conditions by varying the fraction of added syngas to the mixture. This motivates future experimental work on reforming technologies coupled with gas turbine exhausts to validate this numerical work.

An experimental and reduced modeling study of the laminar flame speed of jet fuel surrogate components

Fuel ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 113 ◽  
pp. 586-597 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.D. Munzar ◽  
B. Akih-Kumgeh ◽  
B.M. Denman ◽  
A. Zia ◽  
J.M. Bergthorson
Keyword(s):  
Laminar Flame ◽  
Jet Fuel ◽  
Flame Speed ◽  
Laminar Flame Speed ◽  
Reduced Modeling ◽  
Fuel Surrogate ◽  
Modeling Study

Laminar flame speed measurements of dimethyl ether in air at pressures up to 10atm

Fuel ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 90 (1) ◽  
pp. 331-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaap de Vries ◽  
William B. Lowry ◽  
Zeynep Serinyel ◽  
Henry J. Curran ◽  
Eric L. Petersen
Keyword(s):  
Dimethyl Ether ◽  
Laminar Flame ◽  
Flame Speed ◽  
Laminar Flame Speed

Laminar flame speed correlations for methane, ethane, propane and their mixtures, and natural gas and gasoline for spark-ignition engine simulations

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (9) ◽  
pp. 951-970 ◽  
Author(s):  
Riccardo Amirante ◽  
Elia Distaso ◽  
Paolo Tamburrano ◽  
Rolf D Reitz
Keyword(s):  
Natural Gas ◽  
Laminar Flame ◽  
Spark Ignition ◽  
Flame Speed ◽  
Operating Conditions ◽  
Spark Ignition Engine ◽  
Computational Time ◽  
Laminar Flame Speed ◽  
Spark Ignition Engines ◽  
Empirical Correlations

The laminar flame speed plays an important role in spark-ignition engines, as well as in many other combustion applications, such as in designing burners and predicting explosions. For this reason, it has been object of extensive research. Analytical correlations that allow it to be calculated have been developed and are used in engine simulations. They are usually preferred to detailed chemical kinetic models for saving computational time. Therefore, an accurate as possible formulation for such expressions is needed for successful simulations. However, many previous empirical correlations have been based on a limited set of experimental measurements, which have been often carried out over a limited range of operating conditions. Thus, it can result in low accuracy and usability. In this study, measurements of laminar flame speeds obtained by several workers are collected, compared and critically analyzed with the aim to develop more accurate empirical correlations for laminar flame speeds as a function of equivalence ratio and unburned mixture temperature and pressure over a wide range of operating conditions, namely [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text]. The purpose is to provide simple and workable expressions for modeling the laminar flame speed of practical fuels used in spark-ignition engines. Pure compounds, such as methane and propane and binary mixtures of methane/ethane and methane/propane, as well as more complex fuels including natural gas and gasoline, are considered. A comparison with available empirical correlations in the literature is also provided.

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