Journal
COMBUSTION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Volume 191, Issue 7, Pages 1079-1100Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/00102202.2018.1509857
Keywords
Nanofluid Fuels; Droplet Combustion; Aluminum Nanoparticles
Funding
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) [FA9550-15-1-0339]
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The effect of nanoscale energetic aluminum (nAl) and inert silicon dioxide (nSiO(2)) particulate additives on ethanol droplet combustion was studied under atmospheric conditions. Three different types of droplet experiments were performed to study the influence of the experiment itself on combustion behavior. Simultaneous visible and intensified ultraviolet (UV) images were taken to determine the burning rate constant (K) as well as flame dynamics via OH* chemiluminescence imaging. The addition of nAl appeared to yield a systematic increase in K, by up to 13%, and increasing loading concentrations led to changes in droplet combustion dynamics. Flow instabilities, including liquid jetting and altered droplet deformation, were observed, creating unsteady combustion when the nAl-laden droplet was continuously fed via a quartz capillary. In contrast, the addition of nSiO(2) showed relatively small changes in K, possibly only as large an increase as 5%, with a lack of consistent trends for increasing nSiO(2) concentration for different fuel delivery methods, in part due to the formation of large residual shell-like structures in the later stages of combustion. A simple droplet combustion model suggests that possible enhancement mechanisms for K are related to alterations in thermal conductivity as well as flame temperature with the nAl additive. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) images of particulate residue revealed further differences in morphology and residue constituents after combustion.
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