Journal
PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMBUSTION INSTITUTE
Volume 37, Issue 1, Pages 1125-1132Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.proci.2018.05.049
Keywords
Soot particle growth; Soot volume fractions; Laser-induced incandescence; Burnt gas flow reactor
Funding
- DFG-RFBR project [SCHU 1369/24, RFBR-16-58-12014]
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The growth of carbon particles was studied in heated flows of a burnt-gas flow reactor containing mixtures of N-2/C2H2, and N-2/C2H2 with addition of H-2 or CH4 surrounded by a rich C2H4/air flame. Soot particle sizes and volume fractions were measured by laser-induced incandescence (LII) between 50 and 130 mm above the nozzle exit. The measurements indicate a soot-inhibiting effect of adding H-2 to the C2H2/N-2 flow on both, particle sizes and soot volume fractions. The effect of CH4 addition to the C2H2/N-2 flows was ambivalent, depending on the methane-to-acetylene ratio. At gas mixtures with N-2:CH4:C2H2 = 0.42:0.35:0.23 and 0.39:0.32:0.29 by volume at fixed total flow rates, the measured soot volume fractions were substantially increased in presence of CH4, while the mean diameters of the particles were slightly decreased. Gas temperatures were measured by a generalized line-reversal method with Abel transformation. Temperatures of the surrounding C2H4/air flame were around 1600 K, and temperatures of the inner flows, where soot formation was measured, were between 1550 and 1630 K. Plug-flow reactor calculations provided a qualitative understanding of the influence of CH4 on the soot particle growth. (C) 2018 The Combustion Institute. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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