Title
Fast-flame limit for hydrogen/methane-air mixtures
Date Issued
01 January 2019
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Elsevier Ltd
Abstract
Flame acceleration experiments were performed in a 10 cm inner-diameter tube filled with evenly spaced 0.43 blockage ratio orifice plates. The critical mixture composition required for flame acceleration to a fast-flame was measured for four methane/hydrogen fuel-air mixtures at initial temperatures of 298 K, 423 K, and 573 K. These conditions provide a large range in the Zeldovich number between 12 and 28, where the Zeldovich number was calculated from the laminar burning velocity obtained from 1-D flame simulations. The data collapsed very well when the expansion ratio across the flame (calculated at the critical condition) was plotted versus the Zeldovich number. This is consistent with correlation proposed by Dorofeev [7], that was based on experimental data obtained over a narrower Zeldovich number range. For pure hydrogen fuel, the critical expansion ratio was found to be between 2 and 4, and for pure methane the critical expansion ratio was as high as 8, for an initial temperature of 573 K.
Start page
3661
End page
3668
Volume
37
Issue
3
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
QuÃmica analÃtica
IngenierÃa quÃmica
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85048795567
Source
Proceedings of the Combustion Institute
ISSN of the container
15407489
Sponsor(s)
The first author is grateful for the financial support from Solar Turbines to perform the flame acceleration study under the guidance of Dr. Priyank Saxena. Dr. Mendiburu's stay at Queen's University was supported by FAPESP (Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo) through Projects 2015/23351-9 and 2015/25435-5 .
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