scholarly journals High-speed, three-dimensional tomographic laser-induced incandescence imaging of soot volume fraction in turbulent flames

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (26) ◽  
pp. 29547 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terrence R. Meyer ◽  
Benjamin R. Halls ◽  
Naibo Jiang ◽  
Mikhail N. Slipchenko ◽  
Sukesh Roy ◽  
...  
Author(s):  
H. Sapmaz ◽  
C. Ghenai

Laser-Induced Incandescence (LII) is used in this study to measure soot volume fractions in steady and flickering ethylene diffusion flames burning at atmospheric pressure. Better understanding of flickering flame behavior also promises to improve understanding of turbulent combustion systems. A very-high-speed solenoid valve is used to force the fuel flow rate with frequencies between 10 Hz and 200 Hz with the same mean fuel flow rate of steady flame. Periodic flame flickers are captured by two-dimensional phase-locked emission and LII images for eight phases (0°–360°) covering each period. LII spectra scan for minimizing C2 swan band emission and broadband molecular florescence, a calibration procedure using extinction measurements, and corrections for laser extinction and LII signal trapping are carried out towards developing reliable LII for quantitative applications. A comparison between the steady and pulsed flames results and the effect of the oscillation frequency on soot volume fraction for the pulsed flames are presented.


Author(s):  
Kan Zha ◽  
Xin Yu ◽  
Marcis Jansons

In-cylinder soot measurements obtained with a high-speed two-color method are compared to those simultaneously determined by the laser-induced incandescence (LII) technique in a single-cylinder, optically-accessible diesel engine fueled with JP-8. A double injection strategy was chosen to reduce pressure rise rates during operation at light load (2 bar IMEP) conditions. Injection timing was optimized for peak efficiency, at which point sufficient soot was produced to provide ample signal for both optical diagnostic techniques. Application of the two-color method to a high-speed CMOS camera allows the crank-angle-resolved observation of soot temperature and soot optical depth (KL) evolution, while LII provides soot volume fraction distribution at a known axial location in the cylinder independent of combustion gas temperature. Comparison of soot KL and LII signal at various stages of combustion shows high spatially-averaged correlation of the two signals near TDC. The degree of correlation decreases as the piston bowl descends and the line-of-sight soot KL value increasingly includes soot volumes not in the path of the laser sheet, the location of which is fixed 6.5 mm below the fire deck. The correlation between the two parameters again increases during the late cycle, indicating that in the later phases of combustion soot occurs in the squish zone above the piston bowl. Spatial cross-correlation of the two signals is weak, but increases in the highly luminous period immediately following heat release and illustrating a high degree of soot stratification. Soot KL and temperature evolution over a cycle are presented, which show no indication of being affected by the LII laser fluence.


Author(s):  
H. Sapmaz ◽  
C. Ghenai

Laser-Induced Incandescence (LII) is used in this study to measure soot volume fractions in steady and flickering ethylene diffusion flames burning at atmospheric pressure. Better understanding of flickering flame behavior also promises to improve understanding of turbulent combustion systems. A very-high-speed solenoid valve is used to force the fuel flow rate with frequencies between 10 Hz and 200 Hz with the same mean fuel flow rate of steady flame. Periodic flame flickers are captured by two-dimensional phase-locked emission and LII images for eight phases (0° - 360°) covering each period. LII spectra scan for minimizing C2 swan band emission and broadband molecular florescence, a calibration procedure using extinction measurements, and corrections for laser extinction and LII signal trapping are carried out towards developing reliable LII for quantitative applications. A comparison between the steady and pulsed flames results and the effect of the oscillation frequency on soot volume fraction for the pulsed flames are presented.


2015 ◽  
Vol 769 ◽  
pp. 218-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolas Brodu ◽  
Renaud Delannay ◽  
Alexandre Valance ◽  
Patrick Richard

We report on new patterns in high-speed flows of granular materials obtained by means of extensive numerical simulations. These patterns emerge from the destabilization of unidirectional flows upon increase of mass holdup and inclination angle, and are characterized by complex internal structures, including secondary flows, heterogeneous particle volume fraction, symmetry breaking and dynamically maintained order. In particular, we evidenced steady and fully developed ‘supported’ flows, which consist of a dense core surrounded by a highly energetic granular gas. Interestingly, despite their overall diversity, these regimes are shown to obey a scaling law for the mass flow rate as a function of the mass holdup. This unique set of three-dimensional flow regimes raises new challenges for extending the scope of current granular rheological models.


Author(s):  
Kevin Torres Monclard ◽  
Olivier Gicquel ◽  
Ronan Vicquelin

Abstract The effect of soot radiation modeling, pressure, and level of soot volume fraction are investigated in two ethylene-air turbulent flames: a jet flame at atmospheric pressure studied at Sandia, and a confined pressurized flame studied at DLR. Both cases have previously been computed with large-eddy simulations coupled with thermal radiation. The present study aims at determining and analyzing the thermal radiation field for different models from these numerical results. A Monte-Carlo solver based on the Emission Reciprocity Method is used to solve the radiative transfer equation with detailed gas and soot properties in both configurations. The participating gases properties are described by an accurate narrowband ck model. Emission, absorption, and scattering from soot particles are accounted for. Two formulations of the soot refractive index are considered: a constant value and a wavelength formulation dependency. This is combined with different models for soot radiative properties: gray, Rayleigh theory, Rayleigh-Debye-Gans theory for fractal aggregates. The effects of soot radiative scattering is often neglected since their contribution is expected to be small. This contribution is determined quantitatively in different scenarios, showing great sensitivity to the soot particles morphology. For the same soot volume fraction, scattering from larger aggregates is found to modify the radiative heat transfer noticeably. Such a finding outlines the need for detailed information on soot particles. Finally, the role of soot volume fraction and pressure on radiative interactions between both solid and gaseous phases is investigated.


2006 ◽  
Vol 45 (16) ◽  
pp. 3805 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvana De Iuliis ◽  
Francesco Cignoli ◽  
Giorgio Zizak

1995 ◽  
Vol 34 (30) ◽  
pp. 7083 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Ni ◽  
J. A. Pinson ◽  
S. Gupta ◽  
R. J. Santoro

Volume 4 ◽  
2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean P. Kearney ◽  
Thomas W. Grasser ◽  
Steven J. Beresh

Filtered Rayleigh Scattering (FRS) is demonstrated in a premixed, sooting ethylene-air flame. In sooting flames, traditional laser-based temperature-imaging techniques such linear (unfiltered) Rayleigh scatting (LRS) and planar laser-induced fluorescence (PLIF) are rendered intractable due to intense elastic scattering interferences from in-flame soot. FRS partially overcomes this limitation by utilizing a molecular iodine filter in conjunction with an injection-seeded Nd:YAG laser, where the seeded laser output is tuned to line center of a strong iodine absorption transition. A significant portion of the Doppler-broadened molecular Rayleigh signal is then passed while intense soot scattering at the laser line is strongly absorbed. In this paper, we demonstrate the feasibility of FRS for sooting flame thermometry using a premixed, ethylene-air flat flame. We present filtered and unfiltered laser light-scattering images, FRS temperature data, and laser-induced incandescence (LII) measurements of soot volume fraction for fuel-air equivalence ratios of φ = 2.19 and 2.24. FRS-measured product temperatures for these flames are nominally 1500 K. The FRS temperature and image data are discussed in the context of the soot LII results and a preliminary estimate of the upper sooting limit for our FRS system of order 0.1 ppm volume fraction is obtained.


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