同步辐射研究汽油火焰中的成分

利用同步辐射和分子束取样技术研究了汽油与氧气低压预混火焰的燃烧产物,得到汽油燃烧火焰中部的光电离飞行时间质谱图以及一些成分的电离能.与文献中的电离能比较后可以确定火焰中产物的具体结构.通过空间分布曲线着重分析了五种有害物质的反应过程,为建立燃烧反应动力学模型奠定了基础.     

A comparative study of nanoparticles in premixed flames by scanning mobility particle sizer, small angle neutron scattering, and transmission electron microscopy

Scanning mobility particle sizer (SMPS) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) studies were conducted for TiO₂ and soot particles. The TiO₂ particles were produced from a premixed stagnation ethylene-oxygen-argon flame (? = 0.36) doped with titanium tetraisopropoxide. Soot was generated from a burner-stabilized premixed ethylene-oxygen-argon flame (? = 2.5). The close agreement among SMPS, TEM, and X-ray diffraction results for TiO₂ nanoparticles demonstrates that the probe sampling/mobility measurement technique is accurate for on-line analysis of the size distribution of particles as small as 3 nm in diameter. In the case of soot, notable disagreement between the SMPS and TEM sizes was found and attributable to the fact that the soot taken from the flame studied herein is liquid-like and that upon deposition on the TEM grid, the primary particles do not retain their sphericity. This interpretation is supported by measurements with photo ionization aerosol mass spectrometry, small angle neutron scattering, and thermocouple particle densitometry.     

The effects of burner stabilization on Fenimore NO formation in low-pressure, fuel-rich premixed CH4/O2/N2 flames

We investigate the effects of varying the degree of burner stabilization on Fenimore NO formation in fuel-rich low-pressure flat CH₄/O₂/N₂ flames. Towards this end, axial profiles of flame temperature and OH, NO and CH mole fractions are measured using laser-induced fluorescence (LIF). The experiments are performed at equivalence ratios between 1.3 and 1.5. The flame temperature is seen to decrease by 200-300 K, with a concomitant decrease in OH mole fraction, upon reducing the total flow rate from 5 to 3 L/min, thus increasing stabilization. At equivalence ratios between 1.3 and 1.5, this decrease in flow rate lowers the maximum CH mole fraction by a factor of 2, and the NO mole fraction by ∼40% in all flames studied. Integrating the reaction rate for CH + N₂ to estimate Fenimore NO formation, using the rate coefficient in GRI-Mech 3.0, and the measured temperatures and CH profiles show very good agreement with the measured NO mole fraction for ? = 1.3 and 1.4, supporting the current choice for this rate. This agreement also shows that the increase in residence time caused by increased stabilization is an important factor in the ultimate impact of the changes in CH mole fraction on NO formation. The results at ? = 1.5 suggest that substantial quantities of fixed nitrogen species, e.g., HCN, are only slowly oxidized in the post-flame zone under these conditions, leading to a significant discrepancy between the measured NO mole fraction and that obtained by integrating over the CH profile. Detailed calculations using GRI-Mech 3.0 predict the experimental results at ? = 1.3 nearly quantitatively, but show increasing differences with the measurements for both CH and NO profiles with increasing equivalence ratio.     

The Cool Flames of Hydrocarbons

This review describes the properties of the cool-flame and two-stage ignition processes that characterize the gaseous oxidation of hydrocarbons and discusses the chemical reactions that are responsible for these phenomena. Cool flames result from a chainthermal acceleration of reaction rate. It is probable that the free-radical chain involved is propagated by the reaction of an alkyl radical with oxygen to give an alkyperoxy radical which isomerizes to a hydroperoxyalkyl radical. The decomposition of this radical produces a hydroxyl radical, which attacks the hydrocarbon rapidly and unselectively to regenerate an alkyl radical. Branching probably results from the pyrolysis of mono- and dihydroperoxides, from the oxidation of aldehydes, and from radical-molecule reactions. This reaction scheme explains the existence of a low-temperature ignition peninsula and the relation of the extent and shape of this peninsula to the molecular structure of the hydrocarbon. The chemical relevance of cool flames to abnormal combustion phenomena, such as knock, in gasoline engines is discussed.     

Flame four-dimensional deflection tomography with compressed-sensing-revision reconstruction

Deflection tomography with limited angle projections was investigated to visualize a premixed flame. A projection sampling system for deflection tomography was used to obtain chronological deflectogram arrays at six view angles with only a pair of gratings. A new iterative reconstruction algorithm with deflection angle compressed-sensing revision was developed to improve reconstruction-distribution quality from incomplete projection data. Numerical simulation and error analysis provided a good indication of algorithm precision and convergence. In the experiment, 150 fringes were processed, and temperature distributions in 20 cross-sections were reconstructed from projection data in four instants. Four-dimensional flame structures and temperature distributions in the flame interior were visualized using the visualization toolkit. The experimental reconstruction was then compared with the result obtained from computational fluid dynamic analysis.     

Simulations and experiments on the ignition probability in turbulent premixed bluff-body flames

The ignition characteristics of a premixed bluff-body burner under lean conditions were investigated experimentally and numerically with a physical model focusing on ignition probability. Visualisation of the flame with a 5 kHz OH* chemiluminescence camera confirmed that successful ignitions were those associated with the movement of the kernel upstream, consistent with previous work on non-premixed systems. Performing many separate ignition trials at the same spark position and flow conditions resulted in a quantification of the ignition probability P_ign, which was found to decrease with increasing distance downstream of the bluff body and a decrease in equivalence ratio. Flows corresponding to flames close to the blow-off limit could not be ignited, although such flames were stable if reached from a richer already ignited condition. A detailed comparison with the local Karlovitz number and the mean velocity showed that regions of high P_ign are associated with low Ka and negative bulk velocity (i.e. towards the bluff body), although a direct correlation was not possible. A modelling effort that takes convection and localised flame quenching into account by tracking stochastic virtual flame particles, previously validated for non-premixed and spray ignition, was used to estimate the ignition probability. The applicability of this approach to premixed flows was first evaluated by investigating the model's flame propagation mechanism in a uniform turbulence field, which showed that the model reproduces the bending behaviour of the S_T-versus-u′ curve. Then ignition simulations of the bluff-body burner were carried out. The ignition probability map was computed and it was found that the model reproduces all main trends found in the experimental study.     

测量层流扩散火焰温度与烟黑浓度分布的实验研究

本文提出了一种通过线性规划中的内点法(仿射变换法)来计算烟黑浓度和温度分布的模型.根据烟黑辐射特性,利用火焰单色辐射强度图像信息采用此模型同时重建轴对称含烟黑火焰的温度与烟黑浓度分布,对层流乙烯扩散火焰的温度与烟黑浓度进行测量,得到了较好的结果.     

氢气对薄反应区湍流火焰详细火焰结构影响研究

氢是一种非常有前景的清洁可再生能源载体.掺氢燃料预混稀燃是当前开发清洁高效的低排放燃气轮机最重要的能源转化方式之一.本文基于预混CH4/H2/air本生灯火焰,对氢气掺混影响下的湍流火焰详细火焰结构进行了测量和表征.实验采用CH2O和OH基平面激光诱导荧光(PLIF,Planar Laser Induced Fluor...