TY - JOUR
T1 - Experimental and numerical investigation of fuel mixing effects on soot structures in counterflow diffusion flames
AU - Choi, Byungchul
AU - Choi, Sangkyu
AU - Chung, Suk Ho
AU - Kim, Jiseong
AU - Choi, Jaehyuk
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
Acknowledgements: This work was supported by National Research Foundation of Korea Grant funded by the Korean Government (KRF-2008-313-D00105) and KAUST CCRC of Saudi Aramco.
PY - 2011/3/26
Y1 - 2011/3/26
N2 - Experimental and numerical analyses of laminar diffusion flames were performed to identify the effect of fuel mixing on soot formation in a counterflow burner. In this experiment, the volume fraction, number density, and particle size of soot were investigated using light extinction/scattering systems. The experimental results showed that the synergistic effect of an ethylene-propane flame is appreciable. Numerical simulations showed that the benzene (C6H6) concentration in mixture flames was higher than in ethylene-base flames because of the increase in the concentration of propargyl radicals. Methyl radicals were found to play an important role in the formation of propargyl, and the recombination of propargyl with benzene was found to lead to an increase in the number density for cases exhibiting synergistic effects. These results imply that methyl radicals play an important role in soot formation, particularly with regard to the number density. © 2011 The Korean Society of Automotive Engineers and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
AB - Experimental and numerical analyses of laminar diffusion flames were performed to identify the effect of fuel mixing on soot formation in a counterflow burner. In this experiment, the volume fraction, number density, and particle size of soot were investigated using light extinction/scattering systems. The experimental results showed that the synergistic effect of an ethylene-propane flame is appreciable. Numerical simulations showed that the benzene (C6H6) concentration in mixture flames was higher than in ethylene-base flames because of the increase in the concentration of propargyl radicals. Methyl radicals were found to play an important role in the formation of propargyl, and the recombination of propargyl with benzene was found to lead to an increase in the number density for cases exhibiting synergistic effects. These results imply that methyl radicals play an important role in soot formation, particularly with regard to the number density. © 2011 The Korean Society of Automotive Engineers and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/561736
UR - http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s12239-011-0022-z
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79953145520&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s12239-011-0022-z
DO - 10.1007/s12239-011-0022-z
M3 - Article
SN - 1229-9138
VL - 12
SP - 183
EP - 191
JO - International Journal of Automotive Technology
JF - International Journal of Automotive Technology
IS - 2
ER -