期刊
COMBUSTION AND FLAME
卷 225, 期 -, 页码 39-47出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.combustflame.2020.10.032
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High-pressure soot; Effect of ethanol on soot; Sooting propensity of ethanol; Soot in ethylene-ethanol flames
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资金
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada [RGPIN-2017-06063]
- Ontario Research Fund [ORF RE07-034]
Ethanol has the potential to suppress soot production at high pressures, but further research is needed to confirm; experiments showed a slight increase in soot production when 10% of carbon was from ethanol in the fuel mixture; however, when ethanol's carbon contribution was increased to 30% and 40%, soot formation was suppressed and decreased below the level of neat nitrogen-diluted ethylene at pressures from 3 to 10 bar.
Ethanol, being a renewable product, has been perceived for a long time as a fuel that burns clean and more complete than conventional hydrocarbons as well as being thought as a soot suppressant in blends with gasoline and diesel fuel. Some of the results from a wide-range of studies investigating soot-suppression potential of ethanol at atmospheric pressure, including Smoke Point measurements, have yielded occasionally contradictory conclusions. Further, scaling of soot studies conducted under atmospheric conditions to engine-relevant pressures has always been problematic because of the non-monotonic response of combustion events to pressure. Ethanol's soot inhibiting characteristics at elevated pressures under tractable conditions have not been previously documented and may not be inferred easily from atmospheric pressure measurements. Information from benchmark investigations with ethanol-hydrocarbon blends at elevated pressures could help in understanding the soot aerosol emissions from practical engines fueled with ethanol blends. Soot production in ethanol/ethylene laminar diffusion flames at elevated pressures was investigated on a 3 mm diameter coflow burner mounted in a high-pressure combustion vessel. Ethanol was added to ethylene, which is diluted with nitrogen, in various quantities from 0% to 40% in terms of total carbon of the fuel stream keeping the carbon flow rate constant at 0.41 mg/s. Experiments were conducted at pressures from 3 to 10 bar, and in addition to keeping the mass flow of carbon constant, the ratio of mass flow of nitrogen to mass flow of carbon was also kept fixed at 6 at the fuel nozzle. The soot spectral emission spectroscopy technique was used to obtain line-of-sight intensities of soot radiation which were then converted to radial soot temperature and volume fraction distributions at a given axial height within the flame. Soot production increased by a small but measurable amount with the fuel mixture containing 10% carbon from ethanol at 5 and 8 bar pressure flames indicating synergistic interactions; while at 3 and 10 bar, no measurable change was observed. When the ethanol's carbon contribution was increased to 30% and 40%, soot formation was suppressed and the soot yields decreased below the soot level of neat nitrogen-diluted ethylene at 3 to 10 bar pressures. Sensitivity of soot production to pressure in ethylene/ethanol flames is found to be similar to that of ethylene up to 8 bar. (C) 2020 The Combustion Institute. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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