Application of Planar Time-Resolved 2C-LII for Soot Emission Measurements in Diffusion Flames of DME Blends and in Swirl Spray Flames

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdallah Abu Saleh ◽  
Tristan Knight ◽  
Ruoyang Yuan
Author(s):  
Krishna C. Kalvakala ◽  
Suresh K. Aggarwal

Operating combustion systems at elevated pressures has the advantage of improved thermal efficiency and system compactness. However, it also leads to increased soot emission. We report herein a computational study to characterize the effect of oxygenation on PAHs (Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons) and soot emissions in ethylene diffusion flames at pressures 1–8atm. Laminar oxygenated flames are established in a counterflow configuration by using N2 diluted fuel stream along with O2 enriched oxidizer stream such that the stoichiometric mixture fraction (ζst) is varied, but the adiabatic flame temperature is not materially changed. Simulations are performed using a validated fuel chemistry model and a detailed soot model. The primary objective of the study was to expand the fundamental understanding of PAH and soot formation in oxygenated flames at elevated pressures. At a given pressure, as the level of oxygenation (ζst) is increased, we observe a significant reduction in PAHs (benzene and pyrene) and consequently in soot formation. Further, at a fixed ζst, as pressure is increased, it leads to increased benzene and pyrene formation, and thus increased soot emission. The reaction path analysis indicates that this can be attributed to the fact that at higher pressures, the C2/C4 path becomes more significant for benzene formation compared to the propargyl recombination path.


2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 (0) ◽  
pp. G0500202
Author(s):  
Naofumi KASAYA ◽  
Mamoru KIKUCHI ◽  
Yosuke SUENAGA ◽  
Hideki YANAOKA

Author(s):  
Amirmahdi Ghasemi ◽  
Mohammad Moghiman ◽  
Seyed Mohammad Javadi ◽  
Naseh Hosseini

The present study is concerned with the effect of fuel droplet size, air inlet preheating and air swirl number on complex soot process in a turbulent liquid-fuelled combustor. A hybrid Eulerian-Lagrangian method is employed to model the reactive flow-field inside the combustor. Equations governing the gas phase are solved by a control volume based semi-implicit iterative procedure while the time-dependent differential equations for each sizes of the fuel droplets are integrated by a semi-analytic method. The processes leading to soot consist of both formation and combustion. Soot formation is simulated using a two-step model while a finite rate combustion model with eddy dissipation concept is implemented for soot combustion. Also, mathematical models for turbulence, combustion, and radiation are used to take account the effects of these processes. Results reveal the significant influence of liquid fuel droplet size, air inlet temperatures and swirl numbers on soot emission from turbulent spray flames. The predictions show that reduction of spray droplet size and increases of air inlet temperature and swirl numbers considerably, increases soot emission from spray flames.


1985 ◽  
Vol 107 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Ahmad ◽  
S. L. Plee ◽  
J. P. Myers

An existing steady-state, locally homogeneous flow model of turbulent spray combustion was modified to predict NO emission from a spray flame and soot emission from a gas-jet flame. The effect of turbulent fluctuations on the reaction rates was accounted for. The predicted NO emission from an n-pentane spray with a changing injection velocity could be correlated with the convective time scale of the flow. Calculation of soot emission from a burning turbulent gas jet indicated that the centerline soot concentration reaches a peak upstream of the maximum temperature location and then decreases due to soot oxidation and dilution by air entrainment.


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