Visualisation and performance evaluation of biodiesel/methane co-combustion in a swirl-stabilised gas turbine combustor
| Autor: | Burak Goktepe, Jo-Han Ng, Ogbonnaya Agwu, Jon Runyon, Anthony Giles, Cheng Tung Chong, Agustin Valera-Medina |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Biodiesel
Waste management 020209 energy General Chemical Engineering Organic Chemistry Energy Engineering and Power Technology Thermal power station 02 engineering and technology Combustion Methane law.invention Ignition system chemistry.chemical_compound Fuel Technology Electricity generation 020401 chemical engineering chemistry law 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Combustor Environmental science 0204 chemical engineering NOx |
| ISSN: | 0016-2361 |
| Popis: | While dual fuel firing of power generation combustion systems can improve the fuel flexibility of such systems, several studies on compression ignition engines have also shown a positive impact on NOX and PM emissions. Previous multiphase fuel combustion studies for combustion turbines are limited, thus the present study addresses that gap by fuelling a model swirl stabilised gas turbine combustor with a blend of waste cooking oil-derived biodiesel and methane. Methane was increasingly injected into swirling combustion air flow while simultaneously reducing the biodiesel spray flowrate across a pressure atomiser, thus maintaining an overall equivalence ratio of 0.7 while delivering a thermal power output of 15 kW in all cases, except for flame stability range trials. Direct flame imaging, CH* and C2* chemiluminescence imaging, post combustion emissions as well as stability performance of the flames were evaluated. NOX emissions were found to decrease by 29% and unburnt hydrocarbons increased by 10% as the fraction of methane in fuel mix increased to 30%. Further, flame images suggest increased wrinkling and perturbing of the flame front as gas fraction of the biodiesel/methane flame increases. However, the temporal variation of integral intensity of CH* and C2* species chemiluminescence point to at least an 8% improvement in flame stability when 30% of flame heat output is supplied by methane compared to neat biodiesel burn. Also, it was found that flame stability limits reduce as methane partly replaces biodiesel in the flame. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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