Numerical investigation of spray combustion in jet mixing type combustor for low NOx emission

The present paper describes a numerical investigation of spray combustion in a jet mixing type combustor. In this combustor, kerosene spray was injected with a pressure atomizer, and high speed combustion air was introduced towards the spray flow through some inlet air nozzles to improve mixing of the spray and the air. In the numerical simulation, the conservative equations of mass, momentum and energy in the turbulent flow field were solved in conjunction with the k–ε two equation turbulence model. The effects of the diameter and the number of air inlet nozzles on the combustion behavior and NO emission were numerically investigated. When the diameter of the inlet air nozzle decreased from 8 to 4 mm, the calculated NO mole fraction in the exhaust gas was drastically decreased by about 80%. An increase in the inlet velocity resulted in improvement of the mixing of the spray and the air, and hence, the high temperature region where thermal NO was formed became narrow. As a result, the exhaust NO mole fraction decreased. Furthermore, a decrease in exhaust NO mole fraction was explained by a decrease in the residence time in the high temperature region above 1800 K.     

柴油机水下排气管口边界模型

柴油机废气排入水中所形成的尾管口边界比较复杂。在柴油机水下工况数值模拟中,一般采用定压模型。本文从流体力学的基本方程出发,根据对水下排气管口两相流动状态的观察和管口气泡形成过程的研究,建立了柴油机水下排气不稳定流动管口边界模型。与定压模型相比,该模型不仅能反映出管口的压力波动,而且可以模拟管口处气泡的形成过程及其与管口内气体之间的相互作用。与1维不稳定流动方法相结合可以进行柴油机水下工况的特性分析,特别是水下排气管口声辐射的数值模拟。     

Numerical investigation into the structural characteristics of a hydrogen dual-swirl combustor with slight temperature rise combustion

For decades, hydrogen has been identified as the most promising potential fuel to replace fossil fuels. In order to fully implement it and to promote the rationality of the design of hydrogen combustion chamber structure, it is very essential to understand the hydrogen/air combustion mechanism based on structural variations. The structural characteristics of a novel dual-swirl burner for hydrogen-air non-premixed combustion was studied numerically in this study. The influences of air distributions, swirling directions and nozzle configurations of the dual-swirl burner were studied, and the combustion performance was evaluated from various aspects. The numerical results showed that there was a trade-off between lower total pressure loss and the risk of fusing when considering air distribution strategies. The co-rotating swirl burner exhibited better uniformity of temperature distribution at the downstream of the combustor. The multi jet orifices showed superior penetration depth than the circular seam. Efficient and stable combustion could be achieved, which was beneficial to improve gas turbine efficiency and stable operation.     

Effectiveness measurements for a cooling film disrupted by a row of jets

The influence of cold air jet injection upon filmcooling of combustion chamber walls has been investigated by simulation. The experiments, in which a row of cold air jets is injected perpendicularly to the film cooled test chamber wall, show considerable decreases of the film cooling effectiveness downstream of the jet exit. The same behavior occurs in real combustion chambers of aircraft gas turbine engines. The tests are selected to represent combinations of geometries and flow variables (except the temperature ratios) which are pertinent to gas turbine combustor design. The present investigations cover effectiveness measurements for various combinations of the parameters: a) velocity ratio coolant film to mainstream b) velocity ratio jet to mainstream c) dimensionless distance between coolant film and jet exit d) spacing ratio e) ratio jet diameter to slot height f) ratio lip thickness to slot height.     

An overview on dry low NOx micromix combustor development for hydrogen-rich gas turbine applications

The paper presents a survey of the interactive optimization cycle at Aachen University of Applied Sciences, used for the development of a new low emission Micromix combustor module for application in hydrogen fueled industrial gas turbines. During the development process, experimental and numerical methods are applied to optimize a given baseline combustor with 0.3 mm nozzles with respect to combustion efficiency, combustion stability, higher thermal power output per nozzle and reduced manufacturing complexity.Within the described research cycle combustion and flow simulations are used in the context of parametric studies for generating optimized burner geometries and the phenomenological interpretation of the experimental results. Experimental tests, carried out on an atmospheric combustion chamber test stand provide the basis for validation of simulation results and proof of the predicted combustion characteristics under scaled down gas turbine conditions.In the presented studies, an integration-optimized Micromix combustor with a nozzle diameter of 0.84 mm is tested at atmospheric pressure over a range of gas turbine operating conditions with hydrogen fuel. The combustor module offers an increase in the thermal power output per nozzle by approx. 390% at a significant reduced number of injectors when compared to the baseline design. This greatly benefits manufacturing complexity and the robustness of the combustion process against fuel contamination by particles.During atmospheric testing, the optimized combustor module shows satisfactory operating behavior, combustion efficiency and pollutant emission level. Within the evaluated operating range, which correlates to gas turbine part-, full- and overload conditions, the investigated combustor module exceeds 99% combustion efficiency. The Micromix combustor achieves NO_x emissions less than 2.5 ppm corrected to 15 Vol% O₂ at the design point.Based on numerical analyses and experimental low pressure testing, a full-scale gas turbine combustion chamber is derived. High pressure testing in the auxiliary power unit Honeywell/Garrett GTCP 36–300 shows stable operation during acceleration of the engine, during IDLE and during load variations between IDLE and Main Engine Start (MES) mode. Throughout the investigated operating range, the combustion chamber generates low NO_x emissions under full-scale gas turbine conditions.     

燃气轮机环形燃烧室内燃烧流动的数值模拟

对一个复杂的GE—F101型工业燃气轮机环形燃烧室，采用Reynolds应力湍流模型(RSM)、EBU—Arrhenius湍流燃烧模型和六通量热辐射模型描述其燃烧流动，应用FLUENT软件进行了三维化学反应流场的数值模拟研究。研究结果表明：旋流和燃料进口射流对燃烧室流内温度和流场分布有着重要的影响；利用数值手段得到燃烧室出口的温度分布以判断其能否满足透平叶片进口温度的要求是可行的；燃烧室工作压强对出口的NO分布有着重要影响。在燃用气体燃料时，燃气轮机的NO排放主要来自于热NO，瞬时NO只占很小一部分。图11参6     

Performance characteristics of methanol and kerosene fuelled meso-scale heat-recirculating combustors

A meso-scale heat recirculating combustor has been developed for the combustion of methanol and kerosene fuels with oxygen enriched superheated steam as an oxidizer. The steam oxygen mixture is a surrogate for the decomposition products of hydrogen peroxide, and as such the combustor development is toward meso-scale bi-propellant propulsion. Both the extinction behavior and thermal performances have been examined under partially-premixed and non-premixed configurations of a unique design incorporating heat recirculation. Stable combustion with thermal efficiencies of ∼90% has been demonstrated with both methanol and kerosene. Global flame behavior is investigated through direct image photography of the flame that revealed different flame modes at various equivalence ratios (Φ), including “flameless” combustion of kerosene. Density impulse values calculated based on exhaust temperatures and simulated equilibrium gas properties and assuming 1 atm chamber pressure and expansion to vacuum show that the maximum density impulse of kerosene/steam/oxygen combustion to be within 6% of the adiabatic density impulse of hydrazine/nitrogen tetroxide.     

The combustion tuning methodology of an industrial gas turbine using a sensitivity analysis

This paper presents the results of combustion performance testing of a 5.25 MWe industrial gas turbine which features a conical counter-flow double-swirl stabilized, premixed combustor and the Combustion Tuning methodology using a Sensitivity Analysis (abbreviated to CTSA). The combustion performance test was conducted in an atmospheric pressure, optically accessible, real engine scale combustor. The atmospheric rig and real engine correlation was verified by comparing real engine data which were gathered from high pressure tests. NOx and CO emissions, combustor temperature at the fuel nozzle, dump plane and exhaust, dynamic pressure and flame structure, using planer laser induced fluorescence, were investigated with respect to power load and ambient temperature. To enhance the NOx and CO emission performances with stable combustion, the relative sensitivities of five control parameters were analyzed, and on the basis of sensitivity analysis data, combustion tuning testing was conducted. By using the CTSA, NOx emission in exhaust gas was reduced from 18 to 2.2 ppm at base load, with high combustion efficiency (>99.9%), and very little pressure fluctuation (P_rms < 0.1 kPa).     

燃气轮机燃烧室预混燃烧不稳定性的数值研究

针对燃气轮机燃烧室内预混燃烧不稳定现象,应用湍流燃烧CFD的方法进行了数值研究,并着重对发生自激振荡时的火焰动态特性和燃烧室内的速度、压力和温度的振荡特性进行了分析.计算表明:非稳态雷诺平均Navier Stokes(URANS)方法和基于重整化群的RNG k-ε湍流模型以及有限速率/涡漩耗散(FR/EDM)燃烧模型对于燃烧不稳定性的研究是适用的.将预测结果与实验结果进行比较可以看出,数值计算精确地捕捉到了自激振荡燃烧过程中火焰的动态行为,还给出了燃烧室内速度、压力和温度值波动的幅值和频率.结果表明:燃烧室内低频压力振动主要是轴向的振动,热释放的波动与压力波动的频率是一致的,燃烧室内火焰的频率与燃烧室内压力和温度的波动频率也是一致的.     

The Effect of Spherical Surface on Noise Suppression of a Supersonic Jet

Experiments were carried out to eliminate the screech tone generated from a supersonic jet. Compressed air was passed through a circular convergent nozzle preceded by a straight tube of same diameter. In order to reduce the jet screech a spherical reflector was used and placed at the nozzle exit. The placement of the spherical reflector at the nozzle exit controlled the location of the image source as well as minimized the sound pressure at the nozzle exit. The weak sound pressure did not excite the unstable disturbance at the exit. Thus the loop of the feedback mechanism could not be accomplished and the jet screech was eliminated. The technique of screech reduction with a flat plate was also examined and compared with the present method. A good and effective performance in canceling the screech component by the new method was found by the investigation. Experimental results indicate that the new system suppresses not only the screech tones but also the broadband noise components and reduces the overal     

空气分级对燃烧室燃烧及污染物排放的影响

燃烧气体燃料的工业用直流式燃烧装置为射流进气，采用空气轴向分级的燃烧组织方式，使用多孔板火焰稳定器稳定火焰．实验在一定的燃料流量和一定的空气总量下，改变两级空气的配比，采用testo360烟气分析仪分别测量燃烧室出口截面的温度、NOx和CO的排放量．通过对两级空气不同配比情况下燃烧室出口截面温度、CO和NOx排放量的分析，得到两级空气不同配比对燃烧和污染物排放影响的规律．此外，初步探讨了一级燃烧区长度对燃烧和污染物排放的影响．     

掺混孔调整对燃气轮机DLN燃烧室性能影响研究

掺混孔是影响燃气轮机燃烧室出口温度分布的重要设计参数.针对多喷嘴DLN燃烧室开展整体数值计算,探讨了掺混孔尺寸调整对燃烧室性能的影响规律.研究表明,减小掺混孔一方面可使进入燃烧室头部的空气量增多,燃烧峰值温度和平均温度显著下降,有利于改善燃烧特性,另一方面削弱了掺混孔射流卷吸效应,使火焰筒金属壁面的高温区范围大幅缩小....     

Experimental and modeling studies of a multi‐tailpipe on a pulse combustor system

The effect of a multi‐tailpipe structure on a pulse combustor with an exhaust decoupler and a vent pipe is investigated. A nonlinear theoretical model is established, and corresponding experiments are made to verify the theoretical model. The results show that the multi‐tailpipe structure has two effects: It enhances the exhaust gas resistance and decreases exhaust gas velocity in the tailpipe; it also expands the tailpipe heat dissipation area and increases the heat loss. The amplitude of pressure fluctuations in the combustion chamber and exhaust decoupler is determined by competition between the strengthening effect of tailpipe resistance and the weakening effect of heat loss from the tailpipe. Frequency and pressure characteristics are dominated by tailpipe resistance and tailpipe heat loss. The working region is divided into three parts for different structure parameters: low frequency inphase zone, unstable zone, and high‐frequency antiphase zone. Tailpipe resistance only affects the unstable zone, and the necessary value of tailpipe friction exists to minimize the unstable zone. Heat loss from the tailpipe can reduce the unstable zone and cause it to squeeze the inphase zone, resulting in shrinkage of the inphase zone. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Ignitability and mixing of underexpanded hydrogen jets

Reliable methods are needed to predict ignition boundaries that result from compressed hydrogen bulk storage leaks without complex modeling. To support the development of these methods, a new high-pressure stagnation chamber has been integrated into Sandia National Laboratories’ Turbulent Combustion Laboratory so that relevant compressed gas release scenarios can be replicated. For the present study, a jet with a 10:1 pressure ratio issuing from a small 0.75 mm radius nozzle has been examined. Jet exit shock structure was imaged by Schlieren photography, while quantitative Planar Laser Rayleigh Scatter imaging was used to measure instantaneous hydrogen mole fractions downstream of the Mach disk. Measured concentration statistics and ignitable boundary predictions compared favorably to analytic reconstructions of downstream jet dispersion behavior. Model results were produced from subsonic jet dispersion models and by invoking self-similarity jet scaling arguments with length scaling by experimentally measured effective source radii. Similar far field reconstructions that relied on various notional nozzle models to account for complex jet exit shock phenomena failed to satisfactorily predict the experimental findings. These results indicate further notional nozzle refinement is needed to improve the prediction fidelity. Moreover, further investigation is required to understand the effect of different pressure ratios on measured virtual origins used in the jet dispersion model.     

低热值煤层气燃烧器的影响因素及优化的数值模拟

对3种低热值煤层气燃烧器进行了全尺寸的三维燃烧数值模拟,比较了热态下不同燃烧器出口的流动和燃烧特性.结果表明:部分预混燃烧器射流刚性好,中心回流区逆向速度最大,主流直径最小,燃烧温度最高,且高温区域分布广.进一步研究了喷口型式对部分预混燃烧器燃烧效率的影响,得出了该燃烧器的最佳喷口形式.     

燃气轮机燃烧室液雾自燃延迟时间预测方法

为减少一体化加力燃烧室内支板火焰稳定器高度与进口试验参数较高所导致的昂贵基础试验成本,采用经试验数据验证的数值计算方法,对不同高度的一体化模型加力燃烧室燃烧性能进行数值模拟,分析模型加力燃烧室高度变化和侧壁边界层效应对一体化加力燃烧室回流区、总压恢复系数以及燃烧效率的影响。在保持空间油雾场分布均匀与阻塞比一致的前提下,简化扇形加力燃烧室模型为矩形加力燃烧室模型,其中模型加力燃烧室高度H分别为200,150和100 mm,总长L=1 480 mm,宽B=125 mm。结果表明：模型加力燃烧室高度的降低对燃烧性能影响较小,其中回流率最大降幅为0.16%,总压恢复系数最大降幅为0.15%,燃烧效率的最大降幅为1.9%;模型加力燃烧室侧壁面边界的引入对燃烧性能影响较小,回流率、总压恢复系数最大降幅均小于1%,燃烧效率的最大降幅仅为0.7%;可以采用单支板火焰稳定装置降低高度的方法简化试验件设计。     

Comparison and extension of methods for acoustic identification of burners

The prediction and the control of combustion instabilities require the identification of the combustion chamber response. This identification is usually performed by forcing the combustor (for example, modulating its inlet velocity) and measuring its response. Two methods may be found in the literature to analyze this response: identification of transfer matrices (ITM) and flame transfer functions (FTF). In ITM approaches, the burner is considered as a “black box” and a two-port formulation (based on acoustic pressure and velocity perturbations) is used to construct a transfer matrix linking acoustic fluctuations on both sides of the burner. A drawback of this method is that in experiments, the measurement of unsteady pressure and velocity in burnt gases can be difficult. In FTF approaches, pressure measurements are replaced by a global heat release measurement (usually based on optical methods). The heat release fluctuations are then related to the flow velocity modulations at a reference point (usually the combustor inlet) through a transfer function. This paper uses a compressible numerical simulation of a forced laminar Bunsen flame to analyze FTF and ITM methods. Results show that FTF approaches lead to an ill-defined problem as soon as the reference point is not close enough to the chamber. This “compactness” limit is quantified here in terms of distance between the reference point and the local chamber. The source of the problem is that FTF approaches correlate heat release fluctuations to velocity oscillations only: extended FTF models are then proposed using the local unsteady pressure as well as the velocity upstream of the flame to predict the heat release oscillations. These models are tested numerically and provide consistent values when the reference point location changes or when upstream and downstream conditions are varied. These results lead to simple recommendations for system identification.     

半封闭狭窄通道内甲烷/空气预混火焰传播不稳定性实验研究

针对贫油预混预蒸发燃烧室主燃级中横喷液雾现象进行研究,综合考虑RP-3航空煤油横喷液雾的雾化、蒸发和自燃过程构建自燃预测模型,基于CH基团随时间的变化规律对自燃延迟时间进行预测。结合试验测试结果对模型进行校验,并进一步分析温度、压力、流速、射流动量比等变量对自燃延迟时间的影响规律。结果表明：对于直射式喷嘴形成的横喷液雾,其下游的油气分布主要受射流动量比和流动速度的影响,射流动量比决定了液雾的总体油气比,流动速度则主要影响液滴的粒径及其蒸发时间;随着压力、射流动量比及气流速度的增加,自燃延迟时间均会缩短,相比于预混燃料液雾的自燃延迟时间受负温度效应的影响较弱。     

Non-steady characteristics of dispersion and ignitability for high-pressurized hydrogen jet discharged from a pinhole

Hydrogen gas concentrations and jet velocities were measured downstream by a high response speed flame ionization detector and PIV (Particle Image Velocimetry) in order to investigate the characteristics of dispersion and ignitability for 40–82 MPa high-pressurized hydrogen jet discharged from a nozzle with 0.2 mm diameter. The light emitted from both OH radical and water vapor species yielded from hydrogen combustion, ignited by an electric spark, were recorded by two high speed cameras. From the results, the empirical formula concerning the relationships for time-averaged concentrations, concentration fluctuations and ignition probability were obtained to suggest that they would be independent of hydrogen discharge pressure.     

Jet screech reduction with perforated flat reflector

In the present experimental study, investigations have been carded out to evaluate the performance of the new control technique of jet screech with different perforated flat reflectors. Mainly two types of porous flat reflectors had been used in the experiment. One reflector （reflector-V） designed for placing the reflector surface vertical to the jet axis, when, another type of reflector （reflector-H） designed for placing the reflecting surface horizontal to the jet axis. In both cases the reflectors had been placed at the nozzle （base tube with uniform cross-sectional area） exit. The diameter of the reflector-V was 15D when the diameter of the reflector-H was 10D. The porous area of the reflector-V was 6D and 4.5D for reflector-H where D indicated the diameter of the nozzle exit. The placement of the reflector at the exit of the nozzle reduces the sound pressure at the nozzle exit. Thus the muted sound can not excite the unstable disturbance at the nozzle exit and the loop of the feedback mechanism disappeared, finally, the generation of jet screech be cancelled. The suction space located at the back side of the porous surface of the reflector-V improves the efficiency of the screech control technique. However, in the case of reflector-H, the receptivity process of feedback loop had been controlled by reducing the disturbances at the effective shock fronts as well as at the nozzle exit. The performance of the proposed method was verified with a flat reflector concept and good performance in jet screech suppression has been confirmed in the case of porous reflector.