Soot, PAH and OH measurements in vaporized liquid fuel flames

M.H. Andrade Oliveira, de, N.-E. Olofsson, J. Johnsson, H. Bladh, A. Lantz, B. Li, Z.S. Li, M. Alden, P.E. Bengtsson, C.C.M. Luijten, L.P.H. Goey, de

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Abstract

Qualitative measurements of both OH and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) as well as quantitative data of soot volume fraction f(v) have been obtained in vaporized liquid fuels, with the main goal of providing experimental data for combustion models and numerical mechanism validation. Measurements were carried out in a laminar coflow burner which was designed, built and integrated with an evaporation system, enabling the combustion of vaporized liquid fuels at pressures of up to 3.0 MPa to be studied. The fuels n-heptane and n-decane, referred to in the literature as being important surrogate fuels, were selected for measurements at atmospheric pressure that were carried out in the experimental setup described, making use of a combination of the Laser Induced Fluorescence (LIF) and Laser Induced Incandescence (LII) techniques. Partially premixed flames of n-heptane and n-decane showed similar combustion characteristics in the range of 1.9 <phi <3.7. For both of the fuels the threshold for soot formation was found to be at about phi similar to 3.3. Comparison of the LIF and LII measurements for the n-heptane flames within the range of 3.7
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)145-152
JournalFuel
Volume112
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013

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