The full-spectrum k-distribution (FSK) approach has become a promising method for radiative heat transfer calculations in strongly nongray participating media, due to its ability to achieve high accuracy at a tiny fraction of the line-by-line (LBL) computational cost. However, inhomogeneities in temperature, total pressure, and component mole fractions severely challenge the accuracy of the FSK...

Large Eddy Simulation (LES) is applied to investigate the turbulent non-premixed combustion flow, including species concentrations and temperature, in a cylindrical combustor. Gaseous propane (C3H8) is injected through a circular nozzle which is attached at the centre of the combustor inlet. Preheated air with a temperature of 773K is supplied through the annulus surrounding of this fuel nozzle...

Gaseous combustion is governed by a set of transport equations expressing the conservation of mass, momentum and energy, and by a thermodynamic equation of state describing the gas behaviour. The derivation of these conservation equations from mass, species and energy balances may be found in standard books [1–3]. Among these equations there is the transport equation of chemical species that in...

A new high-temperature flow reactor experiment utilizing the powerful molecular beam mass spectrometry (MBMS) technique for detailed observation of gas phase kinetics in reacting flows is presented. The reactor design provides a consequent extension of the experimental portfolio of validation experiments for combustion reaction kinetics. Temperatures up to 1800 K are applicable by three individ...

A hybrid kinetic mechanism reduction approach combining global reduction and dynamic reduction methods is proposed in the present work. The approach is based on the dynamic flux-based on-the-fly reduction and the globally applied quasi-steady-state approximation (QSSA). Globally identified quasisteady-state (QSS) species are separated from the kinetic ODEs and described by a set of nonlinear al...

Species of the composition C7Hn are known intermediates in combustion processes. One out of five C7H5 isomers, fulvenallenyl, was recently computed to be a resonance-stabilized radical expected to be long-lived and to play an important role in the formation of soot and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. Thus, its structural and thermochemical characterization is relevant for the combustion commu...

The incineration of municipal waste under existing legislative and operational boundary conditions is a very complex process. An optimisation in the emissions is possible by a splitting up of the combustion air into primary and secondary air. The mixing of the secondary air into the furnace is the most important feature in order to reach uniform oxygen, temperature and velocity distributions. T...

A scheme for NH2 detection by means of laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) with excitation in the ultraviolet-blue regime around 385 nm, in particular using the second harmonic of a solid-state Alexandrite laser, is presented. This alternative provides interference-free detection with improved signal compared with previously employed concepts based on Nd:YAG and dye-laser excitation in the visible...

Three species of biomass origin (straw pellets, olive cake and wood pellets) and two coals from different countries (Coal Polish and Coal Colombian) have been studied to understand the fate of their ash forming matter during the combustion process and to investigate the influence of co-firing biomass with coal. Three different approaches to investigate the ash behaviour were employed: (1) chemi...