Ali Zargarbashi, Sadegh Tabejamaat, Soroush Sarrafan Sadeghi, Soroush Sheykhbaglou,
Volume 20, Issue 12 (December 2020)
Abstract
In this paper, the experimental study of partially premixed combustion of methane and oxygen in a 5 mm mesoscale quartz reactor with 1 mm wall thickness and 5, 10, and 15 cm lengths. The partially premixed for 25%, 50%, and 75% mixing ratios paid. Experimental results including the factor of affecting flame regimes, formation range, flame dynamics, the outer wall temperature distribution of the reactor had been analyzing and reporting. The above tests were performing in an asymmetrically centered cylinder combustion chamber and a laminar flow regime. In most partial pre-mixing combustion experiments, the oscillation regime, which had an optimal heat distribution throughout the reactor, had been observed. The flame dynamics were more effect by changes in mixing ratio, reactor length, oxygen flow rate, and finally fuel flow rate (equivalence ratio). Also observed that by increasing the reactor length due to the appropriate time for homogenization of the mixture, differences in the flame formation interval were reducing in the different ratios of the pre-mixes.
Ali Zargarbashi, Soroush Sarrafan Sadeghi, Sadegh Tabejamaat,
Volume 22, Issue 4 (April 2022)
Abstract
An experimental study on the effects of methane-oxygen partially-premixed input flow characteristics in a mesoscale reactor with constant length and geometry was investigated in the present work. For this research, two partially-premixed ratios of 25% and 50% are considered. The reactor is mounted horizontally, made from quartz material and its geometric characteristics are internal diameter: 5 mm, wall thickness: 1 mm, and length: 10 cm. In this research, we have tried to determine the factors affecting flame regimes. The range of flame regimes, flame dynamics, the outer wall temperature distribution of the reactor, frequency, and oscillation of oscillating flames, along with the intensity of the Repetitive Extinction and ReIgnition (RERI) extinguishing sound, were analyzed and reported. This flame's dynamics are more affected by changes in mixing ratio, oxygen volume flow rate, and fuel volume flow rate, causing changes in inlet flow velocity and equivalence ratio, respectively. Examination of the results of acoustic oscillations indicates an increase in oscillating flame velocity with increasing volumetric flow and mixing ratio. Loud extinguishing sound of flames when quenching is caused by converting a portion of the thermal energy of the flame into sound in the flame arrestor and the acoustic vibration waves resulting from the extinguishing of the flame and the difference in gas velocity.
