Showing papers on "Diffusion flame published in 2006"

Fundamentals of Fire Phenomena

Abstract: Preface. Nomenclature. 1 Introduction to Fire. 1.1 Fire in History. 1.2 Fire and Science. 1.3 Fire Safety and Research in the Twentieth Century. 1.4 Outlook for the Future. 1.5 Introduction to This Book. 2 Thermochemistry. 2.1 Introduction. 2.2 Chemical Reactions. 2.3 Gas Mixture. 2.4 Conservation Laws for Systems. 2.5 Heat of Formation. 2.6 Application of Mass and Energy Conservation in Chemical Reactions. 2.7 Combustion Products in Fire. 3 Conservation Laws for Control Volumes. 3.1 Introduction. 3.2 The Reynolds Transport Theorem. 3.3 Relationship between a Control Volume and System Volume. 3.4 Conservation of Mass. 3.5 Conservation of Mass for a Reacting Species. 3.6 Conservation of Momentum. 3.7 Conservation of Energy for a Control Volume. 4 Premixed Flames. 4.1 Introduction. 4.2 Reaction Rate. 4.3 Autoignition. 4.4 Piloted Ignition. 4.5 Flame Speed, Su. 4.6 Quenching Diameter. 4.7 Flammability Limits. 4.8 Empirical Relationships for the Lower Flammability Limit. 4.9 A Quantitative Analysis of Ignition, Propagation and Extinction. 5 Spontaneous Ignition. 5.1 Introduction. 5.2 Theory of Spontaneous Ignition. 5.3 Experimental Methods. 5.4 Time for Spontaneous Ignition. 6 Ignition of Liquids. 6.1 Introduction. 6.2 Flashpoint. 6.3 Dynamics of Evaporation. 6.4 Clausius-Clapeyron Equation. 6.5 Evaporation Rates. 7 Ignition of Solids. 7.1 Introduction. 7.2 Estimate of Ignition Time Components. 7.3 Pure Conduction Model for Ignition. 7.4 Heat Flux in Fire. 7.5 Ignition in Thermally Thin Solids. 7.6 Ignition of a Thermally Thick Solid. 7.7 Ignition Properties of Common Materials. 8 Fire Spread on Surfaces and Through Solid Media. 8.1 Introduction. 8.2 Surface Flame Spread - The Thermally Thin Case. 8.3 Transient Effects. 8.4 Surface Flame Spread for a Thermally Thick Solid. 8.5 Experimental Considerations for Solid Surface Spread. 8.6 Some Fundamental Results for Surface Spread. 8.7 Examples of Other Flame Spread Conditions. 9 Burning Rate. 9.1 Introduction. 9.2 Diffusive Burning of Liquid Fuels. 9.3 Diffusion Flame Variables. 9.4 Convective Burning for Specific Flow Conditions. 9.5 Radiation Effects on Burning. 9.6 Property Values for Burning Rate Calculations. 9.7 Suppression and Extinction of Burning. 9.8 The Burning Rate of Complex Materials. 9.9 Control Volume Alternative to the Theory of Diffusive Burning. 9.10 General Considerations for Extinction Based on Kinetics. 9.10.1 A demonstration of the similarity of extinction in premixed and diffusion flames. 9.11 Applications to Extinction for Diffusive Burning. 10 Fire Plumes. 10.1 Introduction. 10.2 Buoyant Plumes. 10.3 Combusting Plumes. 10.4 Finite Real Fire Effects. 10.5 Transient Aspects of Fire Plumes. 10.5.1 Starting plume. 10.5.2 Fireball or thermal. 11 Compartment Fires. 11.1 Introduction. 11.2 Fluid Dynamics. 11.3 Heat Transfer. 11.4 Fuel Behavior. 11.5 Zone Modeling and Conservation Equations. 11.6 Correlations. 11.7 Semenov Diagrams, Flashover and Instabilities. 12 Scaling and Dimensionless Groups. 12.1 Introduction. 12.2 Approaches for Establishing Dimensionless Groups. 12.3 Dimensionless Groups from the Conservation Equations. 12.4 Examples of Specific Correlations. 12.5 Scale Modeling. Appendix. Flammability Properties. Archibald Tewarson. Index.

Mixing and combustion of cryogenic oxygen-hydrogen shear-coaxial jet flames at supercritical pressure

Abstract: This paper extends past analyses of liquid-oxygen-hydrogen flames at supercritical pressure by providing quantitative results that characterize multicomponent diffusion processes in the flame zone of a shear-coaxial injector element. High-fidelity simulations, using both the large-eddy-simulation and direct-numerical-simulation techniques, have been performed using detailed treatments of thermodynamic, transport and chemical kinetics. Results are presented for a condition where oxygen is injected in a cryogenic state, at a subcritical temperature and supercritical pressure, and hydrogen is injected in a supercritical state. This condition has significant technical relevance in liquid-rocket engines but is not well understood. For this situation a diffusion dominated mode of combustion occurs in the presence of exceedingly large thermophysical property gradients. The flame anchors itself in the interfacial region of high shear that exists between the liquid-oxygen core and the annular hydrogen jet...

Combustion enhancement via stabilized piecewise nonequilibrium gliding arc plasma discharge

Abstract: A new piecewise nonequilibrium gliding arc plasma discharge integrated with a counterflow flame burner was developed and validated to study the effect of a plasma discharge on the combustion enhancement of methane-air diffusion flames. The results showed that the new system provided a well-defined flame geometry for the understanding of the basic mechanism of the plasma-flame interaction. It was shown that with a plasma discharge of the airstream, up to a 220% increase in the extinction strain rate was possible at low-power inputs. The impacts of thermal and nonthermal mechanisms on the combustion enhancement was examined by direct comparison of measured temperature profiles via Rayleigh scattering thermometry and OH number density profiles via planar laser-induced fluorescence (calibrated with absorption) with detailed numerical simulations at elevated air temperatures and radical addition. It was shown that the predicted extinction limits and temperature and OH distributions of the diffusion flames, with only an increase in air temperature, agreed well with the experimental results. These results suggested that the effect of a stabilized piecewise nonequilibrium gliding arc plasma discharge of air at low air temperatures on a diffusion flame was dominated by thermal effects.

Strong spectral dependence of light absorption by organic carbon particles formed by propane combustion

Abstract: We have measured the extinction and absorption cross sections of carbon particles emitted by a propane diffusion flame both in an aerosol chamber and on size-segregated samples deposited on optical windows. The absorption cross section, the single scattering albedo, and the Angstrom exponent show drastic dependencies both on the C/O ratio and on the particle size. This is interpretated as being due to the appearance of nucleation modes of smaller organic particles at higher C/O ratios, which were detected by SMPS measurements and partially by TEM analysis. The spectral range of the validity of the absorption power-law (Angstrom exponent) model is investigated by vacuum ultraviolet extinction measurements. These measurements give also indications for a preferentially aromatic nature of the OC component of the flame products.

Influence of polydisperse distributions of both primary particle and aggregate size on soot temperature in low-fluence LII

Abstract: An improved aggregate-based low-fluence laser-induced incandescence (LII) model has been developed. The shielding effect in heat conduction between aggregated soot particles and the surrounding gas was modeled using the concept of the equivalent heat transfer sphere. The diameter of such an equivalent sphere was determined from direct simulation Monte Carlo calculations in the free molecular regime as functions of the aggregate size and the thermal accommodation coefficient of soot. Both the primary soot particle diameter and the aggregate size distributions are assumed to be lognormal. The effective temperature of a soot particle ensemble containing different primary particle diameters and aggregate sizes in the laser probe volume was calculated based on the ratio of the total thermal radiation intensities of soot particles at 400 and 780 nm to simulate the experimentally measured soot particle temperature using two-color optical pyrometry. The effect of primary particle diameter polydispersity is in general important and should be considered. The effect of aggregate size polydispersity is relatively unimportant when the heat conduction between the primary particles and the surrounding gas takes place in the free-molecular regime; however, it starts to become important when the heat conduction process occurs in the near transition regime. The model developed in this study was also applied to the re-determination of the thermal accommodation coefficient of soot in an atmospheric pressure laminar ethylene diffusion flame.

Plasma-Discharge Stabilization of Jet Diffusion Flames

Abstract: The authors examine three different types of plasma discharges in their ability to stabilize a lifted jet diffusion flame in coflow. The three discharges include a single-electrode corona discharge, an asymmetric dielectric-barrier discharge (DBD), and a repetitive ultrashort-pulsed discharge. The degree of nonequilibrium of this pulsed discharge is found to be higher than that for the DBD. Furthermore, this pulsed discharge causes the most significant improvement in the flame stability. The optimal placement of the discharge electrodes is investigated, and it is found that there is a close relation between this placement and the emission spectra, suggesting use of the emission spectra as a possible indicator of fuel/air mixture fraction. The optimal placement is mapped into mixture-fraction space by use of a fully premixed flame experiment of known mixture fraction. The result shows that the mixture fraction, which corresponds to the optimal placement, is much leaner than that of a conventional lifted jet flame

Flame propagation and combustion in some dust-air mixtures

Abstract: Some results of measurements of laminar burning velocities and of maximum flame temperatures for combustible dust-air mixtures (starch dust-air mixtures, lycopodium-air mixtures and sulphur flour-air mixtures) are presented. Thin (25 and 50 μm) thermocouples have been used to measure maximum flame temperatures. The results are compared with those obtained with other devices such as resistors, pyrometers and are compared to the theoretical values. It appears that the observed discrepancies seem principally to come from the relatively poor efficiency of the burning processes inside the flame front than to heat losses by radiation as suggested before. Two methods for determining laminar burning velocities have been used: the classical ‘tube method’ and a ‘direct method’ based on the simultaneous determination of the flame speed and of the mixture velocity ahead of the flame front using a tomographic technique. Two different tube diameters are considered as well as additional results obtained with a small burner. The validity of these techniques is firstly assessed by comparing the results obtained with CH4-air mixtures and secondly by considering their relevancy for combustible dust-air mixtures (influence of the size of the apparatus). In particular, the influences of heat flame by radiation and of flame stretching are considered.