期刊
FUEL
卷 313, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.fuel.2021.122685
关键词
Foam; Gel; Drainage; Stability; Coal fire
资金
- National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars [51825402]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [52004278]
- Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province [BK20200658]
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2021M703493]
- Postdoctoral Research Program of Jiangsu Province [2021K020A]
- Science and technology project of Xuzhou [KC21038]
- Open Fund of Key Laboratory of Safety and High-efficiency Coal Mining, Ministry of Education (Anhui University of Science and Technology) [JYBSYS2020101]
This study investigates the stability characteristics of gel-stabilized foam (GSF) through the analysis of foam half-life, drainage process, microcosmic liquid film structure, and stability mechanism. The results show that the GSF exhibits a unique three-stage drainage process and the formation of a gel structure enhances its stability. SEM-EDS analysis reveals the composition of the gelified film, which mainly consists of O, C, and Na elements derived from polymer and surfactant molecules. The gelified film in GSF delays bubble coarsening and drainage rate, reducing the coalescence and rupture rate. Furthermore, GSF demonstrates superior fire-resistance characteristics and coverage effect on the heat source. The study suggests that GSF has great potential for applications involving the extinguishment of coal fires.
For further clarifying the stability characteristic of gel-stabilized foam (GSF), the foam half-life, drainage process, microcosmic liquid film structure, and stability mechanism were investigated in this paper. In addition, the thermostability and fire-resistance characteristics of GSF were also tested by exposing foam to high-temperature coal fire. The results indicated that the GSF exhibited the special three-stage drainage process of GSF, different from the two-stage theory of traditional two-phase foam (TTF). The enhanced foam stability was mainly ascribed to the formation of gel structure in GSF system by chemical crosslinking reaction, which provided larger resistance to the liquid drainage in bubble film dominated by gravity, finally resulting in zero drainage before 60 h. Moreover, SEM-EDS analysis revealed that the gelified film of gel-stabilized foam contained O, C, and Na elements (more than 95 wt%), mainly deriving from polymer and surfactant molecules in the raw materials of foam. Microstructure and theoretical analysis revealed that gelified film in GSF could delay the coarsening rate of bubbles, slow down its drainage rate, as well as reduce the coalescence and rupture rate of foam. Due to the enhanced foam stability after forming gel in liquid film, the GSF showed the superior fire-resistance characteristic and coverage effect on the heat source, and the foam could remain stable within 30 min even heating by coal-burning furnace. The gel-stabilized foam demonstrated the good application prospect for covering the burning coal to isolate oxygen and reduce temperature to extinguish coal fire.
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