Radiation effects on flame stabilization on flat flame burners

This study investigates the impact of radiative heat transfer on the behavior of flat flame burners within the framework of a simplified one-dimensional model. Flat flame burners stabilize planar premixed flames downstream of a porous plug. Within this study, the porous plug is modeled as a thermally conducting, optically thick medium, allowing for both conductive and radiative heat transfer. Based on the simplified model, the impact of radiative heat exchange between the porous plug exit and the downstream environment is investigated. In “surface” combustion, flame stabilization occurs due to heat transfer between gas phase and porous solid. Results demonstrate that radiative heat transfer from a hot downstream environment to the porous plug significantly increases maximum attainable mass fluxes. For a cold downstream environment, plug properties do not affect the maximum supportable mass flux, although plug porosity and heat transfer between gas and solid have a significant impact on the “stand-off” distance between flame and plug exit. In addition, the model provides insight to a second “submerged” combustion mode, where the flame is stabilized within the porous plug of the burner. Here, increased flame temperatures lead to a dramatic increase of the maximum supportable mass flux. Overall, results show that radiative heat losses play a critical role in both combustion modes: in surface combustion, they are an important mode of heat dissipation, where they can prevent “flash-back” conditions with the flame moving into the porous matrix; in submerged combustion, they prevent flame stabilization close to inlet and exit faces and enable a “slow” solution branch that does not exist without radiative losses.     

Combustion of suspended fine solid fuel in air inside inert porous medium: A heat transfer analysis

Present work is a numerical analysis of combustion of submicron carbon particles inside an inert porous medium where the particles in form of suspension in air enter the porous medium. A one-dimensional heat transfer model has been developed using the two-flux gray radiation approximation for radiative heat flux equations. The effects of absorption coefficient, emissivity of medium, flame position and reaction enthalpy flux on radiative energy output efficiency have been presented. It is revealed that in porous medium the combustion of suspended carbon particles is similar to premixed single phase gaseous fuel combustion except the former has shorter preheating temperature zone length. Use of porous ceramic having high porosity and made of Al₂O₃ or ZrO₂ with stabilized flame position operated nearer to downstream end will ensure radiative output maximum and minimum at downstream and upstream end, respectively.     

预混气体在多孔介质中往复式超绝热燃烧的数值研究

根据气、固两相局部非热平衡假设,建立了RSCP系统的二维非稳态数学模型,对于固体能量方程中的辐射源项采用辐射传递的有限体积法求解,研究了当量比、换向半周期、混合气流速对温度分布、辐射热流量和放热率的影响,考察了最高温升和可燃极限与这些参数之间的关联．研究表明,燃烧室内温度呈梯形分布,高温区较宽;气体的最高温度明显高于绝热火焰温度;贫可燃极限显著扩展,对提高燃烧效率和节约能源有重要作用。     

Modeling of trickle flow liquid fuel combustion in inert porous medium

Present work is a numerical analysis of fuel oil combustion inside an inert porous medium where fuel oil flows through the porous medium under gravity wetting its solid wall with concurrent movement of liquid fuel and air under steady state conditions. A one-dimensional heat transfer model has been developed under steady state conditions using a single step global reaction mechanism. The effects of optical thickness, emissivity of medium, flame position and reaction enthalpy flux on radiation energy output efficiency as well as the temperature, position and thickness of vaporization zone have been presented using kerosene as fuel. Low values of optical thickness and emissivity of porous medium will ensure efficient combustion, maximize downstream radiative output with minimum upstream radiative loss.     

Thermal analysis of a 2-D heat recovery system using porous media including lattice Boltzmann simulation of fluid flow

The present work deals with the fluid flow simulation and thermal analysis of a two-dimensional heat recovery system using porous media. A basic high-temperature flow system is considered in which a high-temperature non-radiating gas flows through a random porous matrix. The porous medium, in addition to its convective heat exchange with the gas, may absorb, emit and scatter thermal radiation. It is desirable to have large amount of radiative heat flux from the porous segment in the upstream direction (towards the thermal system). The lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) is used to simulate fluid flow in the porous medium. The gas and solid phases are considered in non-local thermal equilibrium, and separate energy equations are applied to these phases. Convection, conduction and radiation heat transfers take place simultaneously in solid phase, but in the gas flow, heat transfer occurs by conduction and convection. In order to analyze the thermal characteristics of the heat recovery system, volume-averaged velocities through the porous matrix obtained by LBM are used in the gas energy equation and then the coupled energy equations for gas and porous medium are numerically solved using finite difference method. For computing of radiative heat flux in the porous medium, discrete ordinates method is used to solve the radiative transfer equation. Finally the effect of various parameters on the performance of porous heat recovery system is studied.     

Modeling of a conceptual self-sustained liquid fuel vaporization – combustion system with radiative output using inert porous media

The present model is based on a combined self-sustained liquid fuel vaporization – combustion system, where the liquid fuel vaporization occurs on a wetted wall plate with energy transferred through the plate from the combustion of vaporized oil. The vaporization energy has been derived through the radiative interaction of the vaporizing plate and an upstream end surface of the porous medium. The inert porous medium, used in the flow passage of combustion gas, is allowed to emit and absorb radiant energy. The radiative heat flux equations for the porous medium have been derived using the two-flux gray approximation. The work analyzes the effect of emissivities of vaporizing plate and porous medium, the optical thickness of medium and equivalence ratio on the kerosene vaporization rate, combustion temperature and radiative output of the system. Combination of low and high emissivities of vaporizing plate and porous medium respectively with low optical thickness of medium makes the system operable over a wide range of power. The study covers the data concerning the design and operating characteristics of a practical system.     

A universal model of opposed flow combustion of solid fuel over an inert porous medium

In this study, a universal model is developed to examine the behavior of combustion wave observed in porous solid matters (e.g., smoldering, self-propagating high-temperature synthesis (SHS), diesel particulate filter (DPF) regeneration process). Analytical expressions of the combustion characters of solid combustible (e.g., diesel particulate matters trapped in a DPF) deposited over an inert porous medium are obtained employing large activation energy asymptotic taking into account the sensible transport processes; namely, heat transfer between the porous medium and gas phases, radiation heat transfer from the porous medium, heat loss from the porous medium to the environment, mass transfer of oxygen from the gas stream to the surface of solid fuel and the effective diffusion in modeling the species diffusion. Then it has been validated that the present model is applicable and adaptable for predicting the characteristics of smoldering combustion and thus SHS process. As a result, the features of combustion wave of the present phenomena would be useful to other processes. From practical point of view and for deep understanding of the behavior of combustion wave of these processes, we investigate the effects of various physical parameters over a wide range of conditions. We observe that the moving speed of the reaction front increases with the increase of porosity of the porous medium, mass transfer coefficient and initial fuel mass fraction; while it decreases owing to the increase of heat transfer rate from the porous medium to the gas, heat loss to the environment and radiative heat transfer. Furthermore, the results reveal that extinction tends to occur due to lower porosity of the porous medium, higher radiative heat transfer from the porous medium, higher heat transfer rate from the porous medium to the gas and higher heat losses from the porous medium to the environment. Even the observed near-extinction behavior in reaction front speed versus heat loss diagram is found to be similar what we got in gaseous premixed flame propagating through the porous medium. An extinction limit diagram has been presented as a function of radiation-conduction parameter and the gas flow velocity. In addition to, the impact of radiation and the combined effect of the inclusion of Knudsen diffusion and tortuosity are demonstrated in terms of the spatial temperature and species profiles to examine how these two parameters modify the reaction front structure. Furthermore, the governing equations have been solved numerically and it is observed that asymptotic analysis gives a good agreement with the numerical solution.     

马蹄形火焰玻璃熔窑燃烧空间流动与传热的数值模拟

对马蹄形火焰玻璃窑炉燃烧空间内的流动、燃烧及辐射传热等过程进行了数值模拟研究,得到了炉内燃烧空间的速度场、温度场、组分浓度分布及燃烧空间向玻璃液面传递的热流分布。探讨了燃烧空间入口的进气角度对炉内温度场和向玻璃面传递的热流的影响,模拟结果表明,当入口的进气角度在5°～10°之间时,传热效果较好。     

Enhancement of Heat Transfer with Porous/Solid Insert for Laminar Flow of a Participating Gas in a 3-D Square Duct

In recent years, porous or solid insert has been used in a duct for enhancing heat transfer in high temperature thermal equipment, where both convective and radiative heat transfer play a major role. In the present work, the study of heat transfer enhancement is carried out for flow through a square duct with a porous or a solid insert. Most of the analyses are carried out for a porous insert. The hydrodynamically developing flow field is solved using the Navier–Stokes equation and the Darcy–Brinkman model is considered for solving the flow in the porous region. The radiative heat transfer is included in the analysis by coupling the radiative transfer equation to the energy equation. The fluid considered is CO₂ with temperature dependent thermophysical properties. Both the fluid and the porous medium are considered as gray participating medium. The increase in heat transfer is analyzed by comparing the bulk mean temperature, Nusselt number, and radiative heat flux for different porous size and orientation, Reyonlds number, and Darcy number.     

生物质热燃气多孔介质直燃机理与脱焦特性研究

为研究含焦油的生物质热燃气在多孔介质中的燃烧机理与焦油燃烧脱除特性,采用固相实体颗粒堆积法模拟多孔介质,通过分析燃烧过程中反应器内温度、热流密度以及反应动力学速率等参数场的分布特征,揭示了当量比对生物质热燃气多孔介质燃烧过程的显著影响作用.研究表明,焦油燃烧脱除过程中直接氧化反应速率高是决定焦油出口浓度小、转化率高的关...     

多孔介质中预混火焰燃烧速率的预示

本文提出了一种预估多孔介质中预混火焰燃烧速率的方法。在构成气，固两相合一模型的基础上，用光学厚极限条件下的扩散近似法简化其中的热辐射项，从而由基本能量方程导出计算火焰传播速度的迭代关系式，其中包含综合多孔介质传导和辐射的等效导热系数。然后应用此数值迭代法，分别计算出在多孔泡沫陶瓷中层流预混火焰及无多孔介质存在的自由火焰的燃烧速率。     

Enhanced radiation output from foam burners operating with a nonpremixed flame

An enhancement in the radiation flux from porous medium burners operating with nonpremixed flames was obtained by a vane-rotary burner, in which the swirling fuel flow was confined by an air duct. By optimizing the gap distance between the swirling flow and the base of the porous medium, the relative enhancement in radiation flux reached 5.7 times. This improvement is attributed to the superior fuel-air swirl mixing, with the resulting flame efficiently transferring the heat to the solid phase, as been substantiated by the exhaust gas analysis, the radiation spectrum, flame, and solid temperatures. A significant reduction in CO and UHC concentrations was obtained at high swirl numbers, whereas the NOx emission was decreased to a level below 10 ppm.     

Numerical studies on flame inclination in porous media combustors

Inclinational instability developing during propagation of a filtration combustion wave in an inert porous medium is studied using two-dimensional numerical model. Stable and unstable combustion waves are generated by varying combustion parameters such as pressure, equivalence ratio, filtration velocity, effective conductivity of porous media, pellet diameter and combustor scale. The wave propagation velocity of inclinational flame is studied and compared with flat flame. The growth and reduction of inclinational instability are analyzed at different conditions. The numerical results show that a development of inclinational instability causes essential flow non-uniformity and can result in a separation of the flame front in the multiple flame zones. The limited conductive and radiant heat transfer in the solid phase, small pellet diameter of packed bed, high inlet velocity, large combustor scale and low equivalence ratio promote the instability growth. The inclinational instability is suppressed in a reciprocal combustor.     

Combustion of liquid fuel inside inert porous media: an analytical approach

This paper presents a numerical analysis of combustion of liquid fuel droplets suspended in air inside an inert porous media. A one-dimensional heat transfer model has been developed assuming complete vaporization of oil droplets prior to their entry into the flame. The effects of absorption coefficient, emissivity of medium, flame position on radiative energy output efficiency and optimum oil droplet size at the entry, defined as the maximum size for complete vaporization before entering the combustion zone, have been presented. The inert porous medium with low absorption coefficient will produce high downstream radiative output with large oil droplet sizes.     

Radiative heat transfer in porous media with spatially-dependent heat generation

We report an investigation of radiative heat transfer in porous radiant burners. The combustion was modeled as a spatially-dependent heat generation. Using the spherical harmonics to solve the equation of transfer, we have obtained the P-11 solution for the net radiative heat flux. Results presented illustrate the radiant output as a function of the position of the combustion zone, the optical thickness and the type of scattering of the porous layer, and the amount of reflection from the distribution chamber.     

Mathematical modeling of agricultural fires beneath high voltage transmission lines

This paper presents a mathematical model for agricultural fires based on a multi-phase formulation. The model includes dehydration and pyrolysis of agricultural fuel and pyrolysis products. The model considers a homogeneous distribution of the agricultural solid fuel particles, interacting with the gas flow via source terms. These terms include: drag forces, production of water vapour and pyrolysis products, radiative and convective heat exchange. A multi-phase radiative transfer equation for absorbing-emitting medium is considered to account for the radiative heat exchange between the gas and solid phases of the fire. The main outputs of the present model are most important to study the influence of agricultural fire occurring beneath high voltage transmission lines. The agricultural fire causes a flashover due to the ambient temperature rise and soot accumulation on the insulator of these transmission lines. Numerical results of the present model are obtained for flat grassland fires to study the effects of wind velocity, solid fuel moisture content and ignition length on some selected fire outputs. These outputs include the temperature, velocity, soot volume fraction fields of the gas phase, together with fire propagation rate and flame geometry. The numerical results are compared to the available experimental work in the literature.     

Direct simulation vs volume-averaged treatment of adiabatic, premixed flame in a porous medium

For the case of flame thickness being of the order of the pore linear dimension, the flame structure and speed in adiabatic, premixed methane-air combustion in porous media are examined. The local, volume-averaged conservation equations that assume a local thermal equilibrium between the solid and the gas phases (i.e. the single-medium treatment) or allow for a thermal nonequilibrium (i.e. the two-medium treatment) are used along with the direct application of the pointwise conservation equation to a two-dimensional porous medium model (ordered arrangement of discrete or connected square cylinders). The effective properties of the porous medium in the volume-averaged treatments, including the interfacial Nusselt number, are found by applying the local volume-averaging principles. The results show that, although significant variations of the temperature and species concentrations occur over a pore, the flame structure, thickness, speed, and excess temperature (i.e. local gas temperature in excess of the adiabatic temperature) are fairly well predicted by the two-medium model (the single-medium treatment is unable to predict the local excess temperature). However, the volume-averaged treatments are unable to predict the pore-level, local high temperature region in the gas phase (which can be up to 40% above the adiabatic temperature), and the pore-level variation in the flame speed with respect to the flame location in the pore (which can vary by up to 20%). Other shortcomings of the volume-averaged treatments are also revealed through a parametric examination involving the pore-geometry variables, solid to gas conductivity ratio, equivalence ratio, porosity, and flame location within the pore.     

Numerical simulation of the combustion processes in a W‐shaped boiler furnace under different operating conditions

Numerical simulations of gas–solid flows, heat transfer and gas–particle turbulent combustion have been conducted for a three‐dimensional, W‐shaped boiler furnace. The gas–particle flow, distributions of temperature and concentrations of gaseous constituents, distributions of the rates of heat release, burnout rates of coal particles, and formations of volatiles have been predicted. The results indicate that a steady high‐temperature zone is formed under the arch of the W‐shaped flame boiler, this zone would be of benefit to the ignition and carbon burn‐out and suggest that the W‐shaped flame boiler is suitable for burning low‐quality coals and can operate well under different operating conditions for full and partial loads. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A Numerical and Experimental Investigation of Performance of a Nonsprayed Porous Burner

The performance of a nonsprayed porous burner (NSPB) is investigated through both numerical and experimental studies. The major requirement of liquid fuel combustion systems is excellent fuel vaporization, which is accomplished by using porous medium. Instead of heterogeneous combustion, which occurs in free space of a conventional sprayed burner, a homogeneous combustion of vaporized kerosene and air takes place within a porous medium. The liquid kerosene is preheated and completely vaporized in the first porous medium before being mixed with preheated air in the mixing chamber (i.e., a small space between two porous media). Then the combustion occurs in the second porous medium. A subcooled boiling, single global reaction combustion, and local nonthermal equilibrium between fluid and solid phases with phase change under complex radiative heat transfer are considered. The model accuracy is validated by the experimental data before parametric study—that is, equivalence ratio and firing rate are performed. Result show that a self-sustaining evaporation without atomization and matrix-stabilized flame can be achieved in the NSPB by providing the radiant output efficiency in the same range as a conventional premixed gaseous porous burner. This indicates that the NSPB is one possible technology to replace conventional spray burners for future requirements.     

Impacts of Synchronous Combustion of Small Amounts of Coal Particles with Natural Gas on Enhancing Radiative Characteristic and NOx Flame Pollutant Emission

Radiation is the most important regime of heat transfer of a flame which is directly affected by temperature and emissivity coefficient of the flame. Natural gas has a nonluminous flame, although, the flame temperature is high, but, the emissivity coefficient of the flame is small. In this paper the impacts of synchronous combustion of small amounts of anthracite coal particles with natural gas on the detailed emissivity coefficient of the flame, radiative species and pollutant emissions were investigated experimentally and numerically. A sprint CFD code was used in numerical solution and the pollutants were measured by a Testo 350XL gas analyzer. The results showed that a small amount of coal particles injected into the hot flame of natural gas increases the volume distribution and radiation view factor of high‐emissive intermediate solid soot particles in the flame which enhances the total flame emissivity coefficient. Also, coal particle injection leads to a decrease in the upstream flame temperature and an increase in the downstream region creating a more uniform temperature distribution and decreases the concentration of thermal NO pollutant of the natural gas flame. Furthermore, the role of solid soot particles on the total emissivity coefficient is remarkable, while an increase in CO₂ and H₂O concentrations has an insignificant effect on the flame emissivity coefficient.