Low swirl combustion (LSC) technology has the advantage of ultralow NOx emissions, which is of great significance to the development of low-emission gas turbine engines in the future. To investigate the flow field and flame structure characteristics of LSC, a test rig of low swirl burner was designed and developed. Particle image velocimetry measurement results show that the location and size of the recirculation zone are different, and the flow field shows typical “W”- and “U”-shaped distributions under various swirling flow conditions. The self-luminous results of LSC show that there are three flame modes including attached flame, “W”-shaped flame, and “U”-shaped flame. To deeply understand NOx generation pathways, a chemical reactor network model was developed based on experiments and computational fluid dynamics simulations, and the effects of premixed gas components on NOx pathways were calculated by using Chemkin software. It was verified that the NOx production of the CH4 mixture mixed with H2, N2, and CO2 was mainly formed by the thermal NO pathway in the recirculation zone. The increase of H2 promotes the generation of NNH-type NOx in the main flame zone and inhibits prompt NOx. The addition of N2 and CO2 greatly promotes the generation of prompt NOx and at the same time inhibits NNH-type NOx. In addition, there is little prompt NOx formation in the post-flame zone.


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    Title :

    Research on the flame structure characteristics and NOx pathways of low swirl combustion


    Contributors:
    Cao, Zhibo (author) / Xiao, Yinli (author) / Ming, Xin (author) / Song, Wenyan (author)


    Publication date :

    2022-03-01


    Size :

    14 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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