An Experimental Study of Flame Characteristics of Jet Diffusion Flames in Cylindrical Furnaces (2nd Report, Scaling of EINOx)

Autor: Zaki S. Saldi, Susumu Noda, Junya Inohae
Rok vydání: 2006
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Zdroj: TRANSACTIONS OF THE JAPAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS Series B. 72:2026-2032
ISSN: 1884-8346
0387-5016
DOI: 10.1299/kikaib.72.2026
Popis: The flame characteristics of confined flames are investigated for propane and hydrogen jet nonpremixed flames in cylindrical furnaces. Flame characteristics can be strongly dominated by the combination of the burner and furnace geometries. In the present study, the effects of the inner diameter of the cylindrical furnance D1, the turbulence at the flame boundary, and the global equivalence ratio φ are examined in terms of the emission of NOx. The emission index of NOx, EINOx, decreases roughly with these parameters. The decrease in EINOx is thought to be related to the dilution of mixtures by the burned gas and the flame stretch. The dilution is attributable to vortices formed at the furnace bottom, and the flame stretch is attributable to the air velocity difference ΔUa created by two air nozzles. The EINOx characteristics are evaluated by the furnace Reynolds number Re, c based on the inner diameter of the furnace reflecting the dilution and the strain rate S-Da-1 based on the air velocity difference, where Da indicates the Damkohler number. The ENOx is well characterized by the factor D1UFΔUa, which is proportional to Re, cDa-1. This result indicates that the confined nonpremixed flame is characterized by the furnace volume, not the flame volume, which is related to the reaction rate of the jet nonpremixed flame with coflowing air based on the flamelet model. This may imply that the furnace combustion should be modified from the flamelet concept owing to the dilution.
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