Journal
FUEL
Volume 316, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.fuel.2022.123443
Keywords
Ethanol combustion; Dual swirl combustion; Tubular flame; Heat transfer; Flame anchoring
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51676016, 91641204]
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This study proposes a compact dual swirl combustor to establish a steady liquid ethanol tubular flame. By enhancing the heat transfer process and promoting reactant mixing, the overall heat output approaches 10 kW, much higher than the original combustor. With an increase in inner air flow rate, flame anchoring and soot formation can occur.
This study proposes a compact dual swirl combustor to establish a steady liquid ethanol tubular flame, in which tangential air is injected through two stages. The outer intense swirl induces reversed flame on the surface wall of a concentric copper tube, and the central liquid fuel is heated to vaporize through the inner swirling air inside the copper tube. By enhancing the heat transfer process and promoting the mixing of the reactant, the overall heat output approaches 10 kW, much higher than the original combustor. With temperature measurement and heat transfer analysis, the flame stabilization mechanism has been elucidated. Two kinds of typical flame structures, a tubular flame and an anchored conical flame, have been obtained under various operating conditions. As the flow rate of inner air gradually increases, plenty of the heat aiming to vaporize the liquid fuel is taken off by the air flow, and small droplets occasionally appear downstream the nozzle; furthermore, the global equivalence ratio (phi(gl)) at the nozzle exit gradually decreases, and an anchored flame appears, which interrupts the fuel mixing with outer swirling air, resulting in soot formation in some cases. Plenty of tests illustrates that as phi(gl )is below 11, the flame anchoring will appear.
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