Effects of OH concentration and temperature on NO emission characteristics of turbulent non-premixed CH4/NH3/air flames in a two-stage gas turbine like combustor at high pressure |
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| Authors: | Kapuruge Don Kunkuma Amila Somarathne Ekenechukwu C. Okafor Daiki Sugawara Akihiro Hayakawa Hideaki Kobayashi |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Institute of Fluid Science, Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8577, Japan;2. Fukushima Renewable Energy Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), 2-2-9 Machiikedai, Koriyama, Fukushima 963-0298, Japan;3. Department of Aerospace Engineering, Tohoku University, 6-6-01 Aoba, Aramaki-aza, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8579, Japan |
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| Abstract: | This study examined the effects of OH concentration and temperature on the NO emission characteristics of turbulent, non-premixed methane (CH4)/ammonia (NH3)/air swirl flames in two-stage combustors at high pressure. Emission data were obtained using large-eddy simulations with a finite-rate chemistry method from model flames based on the energy fraction of NH3 (ENH3) in CH4/NH3 mixtures. Although NO emissions at the combustor exit were found to be significantly higher than those generated by CH4/air and NH3/air flames under both lean and stoichiometric primary zone conditions, these emissions could be lowered to approximately 300 ppm by employing far-rich equivalence ratios (?) of 1.3 to 1.4 in the primary zone. This effect was possibly due to the lower OH concentrations under far-rich conditions. An analysis of local flame characteristics using a newly developed mixture fraction equation for CH4/NH3/air flames indicated that the local temperature and NO and OH concentration distributions with local ? were qualitatively similar to those in NH3/air flames. That is, the maximum local NO and OH concentrations appeared at local ? of 0.9, although the maximum temperature was observed at local ? of 1.0. Both the temperature and OH concentration were found to gradually decrease with the partial replacement of CH4 with NH3. Consequently, NO emissions from CH4/NH3 flames were maximized at ENH3 in the range of 20% to 30%, after which the emissions decreased. Above 2100 K, the NO emissions from CH4/NH3 flames increased exponentially with temperature, which was not observed in NH3/air flames because of the lower flame temperatures in the latter. But, the maximum NO concentration in CH4/NH3 flames was occurred at a temperature slightly below the maximum temperature, just as in NH3/air flames. The apparent exponential increase in NO emissions from CH4/NH3 flames is attributed to a similar trend in the OH concentration at high temperatures. |
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