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Experimental Investigation of the Flame Front Propagation Characteristic During Light-round Ignition in an Annular Combustor

verfasst von: Yifan Xia, Changhong Linghu, Yao Zheng, Chenran Ye, Chengbiao Ma, Haiwen Ge, Gaofeng Wang

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Abstract

The light-round process in a transparent annular combustor which comprises 16 swirling injectors injecting lean premixed propane/air mixtures is experimentally investigated. This annular combustor is derived from the ‘MICCA’ combustor, pioneered by EM2C laboratory (Bourgouin et al., Combust. Flame 160(8), 1398, 2013).The annular chamber is formed by two transparent concentric quartz tubes, which provides optical access to high-speed imaging to diagnose the chemiluminescence of flame fronts. Two ignition modes (i.e. two extreme conditions in scheduling fuel delivery and igniter sparking), controlled by ignition procedure are investigated, thus the FFSL (Fuel First, Spark Later) and the SFFL (Spark First, Fuel Later) modes. These two ignition modes exhibit different patterns of injector-to-injector flame propagation during the light-round process. The light-around time and mean circumferential flame propagation speed are obtained for various conditions. The influence of thermal expansion, velocity fluctuation and convection to the light-round process is investigated and compared for two ignition modes.

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Metadaten
Titel
Experimental Investigation of the Flame Front Propagation Characteristic During Light-round Ignition in an Annular Combustor
verfasst von
Yifan Xia
Changhong Linghu
Yao Zheng
Chenran Ye
Chengbiao Ma
Haiwen Ge
Gaofeng Wang
Publikationsdatum
13.03.2019
Verlag
Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in
Flow, Turbulence and Combustion / Ausgabe 1/2019
Print ISSN: 1386-6184
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-1987
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10494-019-00018-y

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