Catalytic combustion is an emerging technology that enables combustion of ultra-lean mixtures, leading to very low NOx emissions as a result of the low combustion temperatures. While it is now clear that combustion catalysts can be engineered into practical combustion systems, the essential surface-chemistry processes are not at all well understood. Therefore, optimal design and control is limited by a lack of fundamental understanding. In practical systems, the need for high catalyst surface area (e.g., a honeycomb monolith) obscures the surface itself from diagnostics probing and thus frustrates the collection of needed fundamental data. Laboratory-based experiments that use idealized geometries are required to probe the catalytic surfaces themselves and the adjacent gas-phase boundary layers. This paper develops a set of scaling laws that reveal how the effects of buoyancy restrict the use and interpretation of terrestrial laboratory-based experiments for the discovery of fundamental catalytic chemistry. The paper also shows how a microgravity environment can be used to great advantage to relax the buoyancy-included constraints of the terrestrial laboratory.


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    Titel :

    Opportunities for microgravity research in the development of practical catalytic combustion systems


    Beteiligte:
    Kee, Robert J. (Autor:in) / Raja, Laxminarayan (Autor:in) / El-Genk, Mohamed S. (Herausgeber:in) / Bragg, Mary J. (Herausgeber:in)

    Kongress:

    Space technology and applications international forum - 1998 ; 1998 ; Albuquerque,New Mexico (USA)


    Erschienen in:

    AIP Conference Proceedings ; 420 , 1 ; 840-846


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    15.01.1998


    Format / Umfang :

    7 pages





    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch



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