Experimental Study on Horizontal Fire Spread Characteristics of Transformer Oil

In order to study the horizontal fire spread characteristics of transformer oil, a series of experiments were carried out on the experimental platform developed, the influence of the initial temperature and the width of the oil pool on the flame propagation, including the propagation speed, flame morphology and the temperature field distribution of the gas-liquid two-phase, was analyzed to reveal the flame propagation characteristics and the oil surface temperature rise law in the process of transformer oil fire propagation, and a theoretical model of coupled liquid-phase convective heat transfer and flame radiation heat transfer was established by combining thermodynamic theory to quantitatively calculate the heat transfer process of surface flow in flame propagation process. Through the theoretical analysis and quantitative calculation of gas-liquid heat transfer, it is proved that the surface flow is mainly driven by surface tension and the flame spreads in the form of pulsation. Combined with the experimental data for verification, it is found that the proportion of liquid-phase convective heat transfer to the total heat flow is much larger than that of flame radiation to the total heat flow, which proves that liquid-phase convective heat transfer is the main mode of surface flow heat transfer.

Computational and experimental determination of flame radiation parameters in the combustion chamber of a marine diesel engine

Температура пламени и степень черноты определяют его собственное излучение. Однако оценка указанных параметров на стадии проектирования судовых дизелей представляет собой трудную и еще пока нерешенную проблему. Последнее обусловливается сложностью достоверного математического моделирования процесса сгорания топлива в дизельных двигателях и весьма высокой стоимостью экспериментальных исследований в этой области. Целью данной статьи является разработка расчетно-экспериментального метода определения параметров излучения пламени в камере сгорания судового дизеля 6 ЧН 24/36. Показано, что оценка величины температуры пламени в камере сгорания в функции угла поворота коленчатого вала может быть выполнена по температуре газов, найденной из экспериментальной или расчетной индикаторной диаграммы и специального параметра. Последний определяется на основании зависимости, полученной путем обобщения экспериментальных данных по измерениям температуры пламени на ряде дизельных двигателей. Представлены результаты по температуре пламени для судового дизеля 6 ЧН 24/36, полученные с использованием разработанного расчетно-экспериментального метода. Установлено, что с ростом нагрузки температура пламени возрастает. При этом в диапазоне изменения нагрузки дизеля от 50% до 100% от номинальной мощности увеличение температуры пламени примерно в два раза превышает увеличение температуры газов. Использование полученных результатов для оценки собственных потоков излучения пламени в камере сгорания судового дизеля 6 ЧН 24/36 и сопоставление их с известными экспериментальными данными показало сходимость в пределах 10 – 15%. The flame temperature and radiating power are determined with its own radiation. However, the assessment of these parameters at the design stage of marine diesel engines is a complicated and still unsolved problem. The latter is due to the complexity of reliable mathematical modeling of the fuel combustion process in diesel engines and the very high cost of experimental research in this area. The purpose of this article is to develop a computational and experimental method for determining the parameters of flame radiation in the combustion chamber of marine diesel engine 6 ChN 24/36. It is shown that the estimation of the value of flame temperature in the combustion chamber as a function of the crankshaft rotation angle can be performed using the gas temperature found from the experimental or calculated indicator diagram and a special parameter. The latter is determined on the basis of the dependence obtained by generalizing experimental data of the flame temperature measurements at a number of diesel engines. The results on the flame temperature for marine diesel engine 6 ChN 24/36, obtained using the developed computational and experimental method, are presented. It has been found that the flame temperature increases with increasing load. At the same time, in the range of diesel load variation from 50% to 100% of the nominal power, an increase in the flame temperature is approximately twice more than an increase in the gas temperature. The use of the results obtained to assess the intrinsic fluxes of flame radiation in the combustion chamber of marine diesel engine 6 ChN 24/36 and their comparison with the known experimental data showed the convergence within 10 - 15%.

Temperature Measurement Method of Flame Image Fusion with Different Exposures

Fixed exposure will lead to underexposure or overexposure of collected flame radiation images using CCD, which has a great influence on the temperature measuring accuracy. A temperature measurement method was proposed by image fusion with multi-exposure, which can eliminate the influence of insufficient underexposure and overexposure. The approach was first to acquire a group of flame radiation images during different exposures. Then a partial region with good exposure effect in each radiation image was obtained by segmentation, with which the complete flame image can be spliced together. An experimental system was built to calibrate the temperature measurement parameters by two-color pyrometry through a blackbody furnace. The relation between exposure time and monochromatic gray level, as well as the relation between the temperature and temperature measurement coefficient were obtained. A candle flame was selected as the measuring object and the complete and accurate flame temperature distribution was acquired following our proposed method. The experimental results show that, compared with the temperature measurement using a single exposure time, our method can effectively avoid the measurement error caused by underexposure and overexposure, and improve the measurement accuracy.