Soot Reactivity in Conventional Combustion and Oxy-fuel Combustion Environments

Soot inception limits in laminar diffusion flames with application to oxy–fuel combustion

For diffusion flames, the combination of oxygen enrichment and fuel dilution results in an increase in the stoichiometric mixture fraction, Zst, and alters the flame structure, i.e., the relationship between the local temperature and the local gas composition. Increasing Zst has been shown to result in the reduction or even elimination of soot. In the present work, the effects of variable Zst o...

Modeling Soot Formation in Kerosene and Fuel Surrogates Combustion

This article presents an analysis of soot formation in kerosene and fuel surrogates. This analysis is based on a detailed chemical mechanism for the combustion of single component fuels such as n-heptane, isooctane, benzene, and toluene. The chemical mechanism describes the formation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) up to cyclo[cd]pyrene and is shown to reproduce the formation of soot ...

Oxy - fuel combustion of coal and biomass blends

The ignition temperature, burnout and NO emissions of blends of a semi-anthracite and a high-volatile bituminous coal with 10 and 20 wt.% of olive waste were studied under oxy-fuel combustion conditions in an entrained flow reactor (EFR). The results obtained under several oxy-fuel atmospheres (21%O2-79%CO2, 30%O2-70% CO2 and 35%O265%CO2) were compared with those attained in air. The results in...

Soot Formation within Conventional and Low Temperature Diesel Combustion

The soot formation processes of conventional and low temperature diesel combustion were investigated by a newly developed Forward Illumination Light Extinction (FILE) soot measurement technique in a constant volume spray chamber. The FILE technique has the capability to obtain two-dimensional time-resolved quantitative soot measurements. For diesel combustion at conventional ambient condition, ...

Oxy-coal Combustion Studies