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Flammability enhancement of swirling ammonia/air combustion using AC powered gliding arc discharges.
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Fuel . Apr2022, Vol. 313, pN.PAG-N.PAG. 1p. - Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- [Display omitted] • The well-designed rapidly-mixed swirl burner anchors compact ammonia/air flames. • Gliding arc discharges significantly extend the lean blow-off margin by repetitive ignition. • The flame structure and intermediate plasma chemistry are optically inspected. • Extremely lean ammonia flames assisted by plasma achieve NO x emissions below 100 ppm. Aiming at the potential development of ammonia as a carbon-free renewable fuel, this work investigates the flammability and NO x emission of swirling ammonia/air flames and utilizes plasma to enhance ammonia combustion. First, the well-designed rapidly-mixed swirl burner can anchor compact ammonia/air flames under a wide range of flow conditions, with the current maximum heat release of approximately 4.7 kW. The flame is progressively detached from the quartz confinement tube and goes blow-off when the equivalence ratio drops below approximately 0.7–0.8. Then, to alleviate the problem of low flammability, gliding arc discharges driven by a 12.5 kHz alternating current (AC) power supply are facilitated to extend the lean blow-off margin to approximately 0.3–0.4. The localized flame kernels surrounding the discharge column are detected by high-speed photography. The planar laser-induced fluorescence (PLIF) imaging of OH radicals, optical emission spectroscopy, and NH 2 * chemiluminescence measurement are performed to interpret the intermediate chemistry. Finally, the NO x emission of the swirling ammonia/air flame is measured by a flue gas analyzer. Results show that although the AC-powered gliding arc exhibits weak global effects on the NO x reduction of burner-stabilized ammonia/air flames prevailing at higher equivalence ratios (e.g. , φ > 0.75), leaner flames stabilized by discharges can achieve NO x emissions below 100 ppm due to the thermal DeNO x mechanism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00162361
- Volume :
- 313
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Fuel
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 154858297
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2021.122674