| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/L68377/01 |
| Title: |
EMISSION CONTROL OF TWO-PHASE FLOW FLAMES |
| Principal Investigator: |
Hardalupas, Professor Y |
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| Department: |
Mechanical Engineering |
| Organisation: |
Imperial College London |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
05 January 1998 |
Ends: |
04 January 2001 |
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123,264
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The proposed research will determine the extent to which heat release distribution, efficiency of combustion, emissions and extinction can be controlled by the spatial, temporal and size distributions of droplets of liquid fuel at the entrance to a burner with coaxial streams of swirling air, gas and discrete fuels and quarl diffuser. The measurements will provide new understanding of the influence of boundary conditions of discrete fuel injection on discrete fuel dispersion and residence time and local flame characteristics in industrial burners and thereby guide burner arrangements towards improved emissions, heat release and extinction. The identified improved burner arrangement, operated with fuels containing nitrogen, will be used to determine preferred discrete fuel boundary conditions for reduced NOx emissions and will allow specific recommendations for more general burner design practice. A subsidiary outcome of the research will be the development of optical instrumentation for point measurements of the degree of premixedness and gas equivalence ratio and instantaneous planar imaging of droplet concentration. The results will also facilitate the improvement and testing of calculation methods and particularly those which use Lagrangian stochastic models for particle dispersion.
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