• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
• /
• v.37 no.9
• /
• pp.829-836
• /
• 2013

The combustion characteristics with variations in synthetic natural gas (SNG) compositions were studied in a lab-scale combustor. The objective of the current study is to investigate the flame stabilization, flame structure, and spectrometry in a non-premixed SNG flame with varying fuel compositions. For the analysis of light emission in SNG flames, we used a spectrometer. As experimental conditions, the fuel jet velocity at the nozzle exit $u_F$ was varied from 5 to 40 m/s and the coaxial air velocity $u_A$ was varies from 0 to 0.43 m/s. The experiments showed that the flame stability increased with the hydrogen component in SNG.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
• /
• v.11 no.1 s.34
• /
• pp.1-8
• /
• 2007

The purpose of this study is to conduct a survey of the flame stability range and the emission characteristics for the optimum design of turbulent premixed flat burner. For that, the flame stability range was selected by the direct photography of the flame. And the mean temperature and CO, HC, $CO_{2}\;and\;O_{2}$ concentration distributions by changing the excess air ratio were measured. As results of this study, the flame stability range turned out to be getting narrower as fuel flow was increased. The blue flame mode was more excellent than any other flame modes in the emission characteristics by excess air ratio change. And the emission characteristics by fuel flow change were best at fuel flow 1l/min. Also, we found combustion noise during experiment of flame stability range. It had nothing do with excess air ratio range.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
• /
• v.14 no.6
• /
• pp.1669-1678
• /
• 1990

The annular and coaxial swirl flows between which LPG is supplied was selected to study the swirling flames in double co-swirl flows. The objective of this study is to research into the effects of double co-swirl flow conditions on the stability limit, the reverse flow boundary, and the time mean temperature distributions of the swirling flames. The increase of swirl intensity of axial flow makes the stability limit decrease, but the annular swirl flow (SM>0.5) makes stability and swirl intensity of axial flow increase, And the existence of axial swirl flow makes flame intensive and small in size, and this may be applicable to the design of high power compact combustor.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
• /
• v.20 no.4
• /
• pp.40-49
• /
• 2016

This study aims to confirm the characteristics of low swirl combustion at our low swirl model combustor. To do it, it is experimentally conducted by evaluating the flame shape, stability region and emissions according to the swirl angle. The most significant feature of low swirl combustion is a occurrence of lifted flame. Such lifted flames happen to combine exquisitely propagating feature of premixed flame with diverging flow. This feature of lifted flame was confirmed through a velocity flow field and visualized the flame in this model combustor. The visualized flame was classified according to the thermal power and equivalence ratio. The variation study in swirl angles showed that the lean flammable limit could be extended only by swirl angles. Also, as the swirl angle increased, it was confirmed that the NOx and CO emissions were decreased due to the mixing enhancement and shorter resident time.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
• /
• v.23 no.9
• /
• pp.1172-1177
• /
• 1999

Comparisons of measured turbulence properties in the unburned gas region of turbulent premixed flame stabilized by pilot flame, in cases of combusting and non-combusting flow conditions, are presented. Methane-air premixed jet at fuel equivalence ratio of 0.6 and 1.0 and Reynolds number of 7,000 was diagnosed using two-color laser velocimeter to obtain turbulence statistics. Same set of measurements was repeated at 21 locations within the unburned gas region of both combusting and non-combusting conditions. Velocity data were analyzed to evaluate the spatial distribution of turbulence properties including Reynolds stress, probability densities, joint probability densities and auto correlations. Contrary to assumptions of current theoretical models, significant influence of flame was observed in every property that was studied in the present investigation. The effective viscosity increased ten-fold when flame was on from cold flow values. The effect of mixing on joint probability as well as in turbulence intensity was suppressed by the flame. The measurements suggest that common assumptions of premixed flame model may result in sizable error in prediction of flame length and temperature distribution in near-field.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
• /
• v.41 no.8
• /
• pp.632-638
• /
• 2013

This paper describes on the flame stability and combustion instability of coal derived synthetic gas especially for gases of Buggenum IGCC in Netherlands and Taean IGCC in Korea. These combustion characteristics were observed by conducting ambient-pressure elevated-temperature combustion tests in GE7EA model combustor when varying heat input and nitrogen dilution ratio. Flame stability map is plotted according to the flame structure by dividing all regimes into six, and only regime I and II are identified to be stable. Both syngases of Taean and Buggenum with nitrogen integration corresponds to regime II in which syngas burnt stably and flame coupled with outer recirculation flow. Stable regime of Buggenum is larger than that of Taean when considering only $H_2$/CO ratio due to higher content of hydrogen. However, when considering nitrogen dilution, syngas of Taean is burnt more stably than that of Buggenum since more nitrogen in Buggenum has negative effect on the stability of flame.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
• /
• v.4 no.3
• /
• pp.331-337
• /
• 1995

석탄가스화 복합발전 시스템은 고효율 및 우수한 환경보전성으로 인하여 차세대 화력발전 시스템으로 각광받고 있다. 본 연구는 석탄가스화기내의 비반응 유동장에 대한 연구로서, 순수유동장 및 미분탄입자를 포함한 이상유동장에 대한 전산해석을 수행하였다. 가스화기내의 유동장을 기술하는 Navier-Stokes방정식을 유한차분법에 의하여 해석하고 그 결과를 나타내었다. 특히 선회유동의 영향에 의한 미분탄입자의 거동 및 재순환영역의 특성에 대하여 선회강도의 함수로 고찰하였다. 해석결과에 의하면 가스화기내에서는 며책의 재순환영역이 형성됨을 알 수 있었다. 비반응유동장의 해석결과이지만, 선회유동은 화염안정화에 긍정적인 영향을 줄 수 있을 것으로 추측되는 결과를 보였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
• /
• 1998.04a
• /
• pp.27-27
• /
• 1998

연구소기내에서 원활한 연소를 위하여 액체의 균일하고 완전한 미소분열 문제는 매우 중요한 연구분야라 할 수 있으며, 특히 항공기용 가스터빈 연소기에 사용되는 분사 시스템의 설계시에는 단순한 미소분열 문제뿐 아니라 시동성 향상, 화염의 안정화, 공해물질의 저감 등은 물론 압력 차가 작고 유량범위가 넓으며 공기를 이용한 미립화(Atomization)의 효율이 낮은 영역, 즉, 시동(Start-up) 및 플레임 아웃(Flame-out)근처의 영역에서도 효율적인 미립화가 이루어지도록 고려되어져야 한다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Combustion
• /
• v.15 no.3
• /
• pp.1-7
• /
• 2010

Edge flames have been interested as a basic structure that is concerned to flame stabilization and re-ignition of non-premixed flames. The edge flame consists of a lean premixed flame, a rich premixed flame, and a diffusion flame. In order to investigate fundamental structures of the edge flames at the conditions near the flammability limits, edge flames were stabilized within a heated narrow channel. Highly diluted partially premixed methane was used, and the flow rates of air and the partially premixed mixture were controlled. Various flame behaviors, including a transition between ordinary edge flames and premixed flames, were observed. Flame stabilization characteristics were examined as well. All flame stabilization conditions in this study showed a similar trend: characteristic time scales were inversely proportional to the equivalence ratio defined at the burner inlet. Finally, an interesting flame structure having a weak diffusion branch enveloped by a closed premixed branch was found near the flammability limits even in a fuel-air mixing layer. This structure was named as a "flame-drop" and the importance of this structure was first suggested.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
• /
• 2008.05a
• /
• pp.332-335
• /
• 2008

The purpose of this study is analysis of flow field where is around of injector of supersonic combustor which is bluff-body stabilized flame and hyper-mixer type of supersonic combustor injector by using hydrogen or hydrocarbon fuel. Various schemes are evaluated to supersonic backward step flow filed with massive separation region in validation step. Compounded scheme of 5th-order TVD-MUSCL, Roe FDS, S-A DES/DDES has a good performance in base and base-bleed flow.