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PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMBUSTION INSTITUTE
Volume 33, Issue -, Pages 2047-2054Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.proci.2010.05.094
Keywords
Flame speed; Aerosol flame; Droplets; Two phase; Turbulent
Funding
- Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia
- Universiti Teknologi, Malaysia
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Experimental studies of aerosol combustion under quiescent and turbulence conditions have been conducted to quantify the differences in the flame structure and burning rates between aerosol and gaseous mixtures. Turbulence was generated by variable speed fans to yield rms turbulence velocities between 0.5 and 4.0 m/s and this was uniform and isotropic. Homogeneously distributed and near monodispersed iso-octane-air aerosol clouds were generated using a thermodynamic condensation method. Spherically expanding flames, following central ignition, at near atmospheric pressures were employed to quantify the flame structure and propagation rate. The effects of the diameter of fine fuel droplets on flame propagation were investigated. It is suggested that the inertia of fuel droplets is an important cause of flame enhancement during early flame development. During later stages, cellular flame instability and the effective, gaseous phase, equivalence ratio becomes important. The latter effect leads has increases the flame speed of rich mixtures, but decreases that of lean ones. Droplet enhancement of burning velocity can be significant at low turbulence but is negligible at high turbulence. (C) 2010 The Combustion Institute. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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