• 한국연소학회지
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.63-74
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• 1999

The effects of EGR and premixedness on NO formation have been numerically investigated. The flame structure is classified into three categories; premixed flame($=1)$, rich/lean premixed flame(${\alpha}=0.6$ and 0.8) and diffusion flame(${\alpha}=0$). NO formation/destruction mechanisms are assorted to thermal, reburn and Fenimore mechanisms. The temperature of unburned gas is arranged to 298 and 500 K to have access to the condition in a real internal combustion engine. The results show that all three NO formation/destruction reaction rates in the fuel rich flame zone could be decreased by EGR for rich/lean premixed flames, while those in the fuel lean flame zone are not significantly changed. Near the stagnation plane, however, only the thermal NO reaction rate is decreased. The contribution of reburn and Fenimore mechanisms for the net NO production becomes less significant as the premixedness of a flame increases. The larger amount of NO reduction with EGR is expected under the higher temperature and/or higher fuel/air premixedness conditions due to the increased contribution of the thermal mechanism. The role of Fenimore and reburn mechanisms could be important for rich premixed and diffusion flames; therefore, the effect of EGR on NO reduction could vary with fuel/air premixedness. The premixedness of a partially premixed flame changes the flame structure and could affect the NO production characteristics.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.171-178
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• 2006

The performance in the practical combustion system including reciprocating engines and gas turbine combustors is being much governed by turbulent reacting flow that is often analyzed by both a laminar flamelets concept and flame interaction. The characteristics of laminar flame interaction have been investigated numerically to provide basic understanding of wrinkled turbulent flames under concentration interaction resulting from inhomogeneity in fuel-air mixing, especially focused on the transition of flame characteristics such as diffusion flame, partially premixed diffusion flame, and triple-layer flame by the variation in the degree of premixedness. The extinction stretch rates to the premixedness have also been obtained in this paper. The boundary defining the regime of the existence of triple-layer flames as functions of both stretch rate and premixedness has been determined which agrees well with previously reported experiment measuring OH radical concentration peaks based on PLIF.

• 한국연소학회지
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.38-48
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• 2003

OH, CH and NO radical distributions have been measured and compared with the numerical analysis results in methane/air partially premixed laminar flames using 2-D LIF technique. The pick intensity of OH LIF signal is insensitive to fuel equivalence ratio: however, CH LIF intensity decreases as equivalence ratio increases and the NO concentration increases with equivalence ratio. The contribution of the prompt NO, formed near premixed reaction zone, to the total NO formation is evident from the OH, CH, and NO PLIF images in which the dilution effect of nitrogen is minimal for the highest equivalence ratio. Measured OH and NO LIF signals in counterflow flames agree with the computed concentration distributions. Both numerical and experimental results indicate that the structural change in a flame alters the NO formation characteristics of a partially premixed counterflow flame. The nitrogen dilution also changes flame structure, temperature and OH radical distributions and results in the decreased NO concentrations in a flame. The levels of decrease in NO concentrations, however, depends on the premixedness(${\alpha}$) of a flame. The larger change in the flame structure and NO concentrations have been observed in a premixed flame(${\alpha}=1.0$), which implies that the premixedness is likely to be a factor in the dilution effect on NO formation of a flame.

• 한국연소학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국연소학회 2000년도 제20회 KOSCO SYMPOSIUM 논문집
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• pp.57-66
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• 2000

대향류 메탄/공기 예혼합 화염과 과농/희박 예혼합 화염에서 PLIF 기법을 이용하여 OH 및 NO 분포를 측정하고 이를 수치해석 결과와 비교하였다.OH 및 NO LIF 신호는 계산된 농도 분포와 대체적으로 잘 일치하였으며，대향류 예혼합 화염에서는 화염의 구조가 NO 생성 특성에 많은 영향을 미치는 것을 알 수 있었다. 예혼합 화염 ($\alpha$=l)에서는 중앙의 정체점에서 NO 농도가 가장 높고 대칭으로 넓은 지역에 존재하는 반면，과농/희박 예혼합 화염 ($\alpha$=0.6, 0.8)에서는 당량비의 차이와 화염의 구조적 특성으로 NO 분포가 비대칭이며 상대적으로 좁은 지역에 나타났다. 희석에 따른 부분예혼합 화염 구조의 변화가 NO 생성에 영향을 주었다. 예혼합화염 ($\alpha$=1)의 경우 질소희석으로 NO 분포 지역이 줄어들고 정체면 지역에서 NO 농도가 크게 줄어 들었으며，$\alpha$=0.6인 과농/희박 예혼합 화염의 경우에는 NO 농도는 줄어들지만 NO 분포 지역은 크게 변하지 않았다. 예혼합 화염 ($\alpha$=1)의 경우 중앙의 고온지역에서 OH LIF 신호가 시뮬레이션보다 높게 나타났으며，과농/희박 예혼합 화염 ($\alpha$=0.6， 0.8)에서는 OH 라디칼의 분포가 과농지역으로 치우치는 것이 관찰되었다. NO PLIF 신호측정시 광학 필터만으로는 화염의 자발광을 제거할 수 없었으며 이에 대한 대책이 요구된다.

• 한국연소학회지
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.19-26
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• 2004

This paper presents results of experimental study of flame chemiluminescence from turbulent premixed flames in a dump combustor. A detailed spectroscopic measurement of chemiluminescence over the wavelength of 405-495 nm is made for various flow conditions. No effect of turbulence on the relationship between chemiluminescence and heat release is found, suggesting the overall chemiluminescence intensity collected be used as a measure of overall heat release for non-oscillating stable flame. The background-$CO_2^*$ subtracted $CH^*$ chemiluminescence is found to be more sensitive to the equivalence ratio and premixedness of fuel-air mixture than $CO_2^*$ chemiluminescence.