WANG Mingxiao, DENG Kai, WANG Weihao, et al. Effects of hydrogen volume fraction on combustion instability of methane-hydrogen lean premixed bluff-body flame[J]. Thermal power generation, 2018, 47(10): 44-50.
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WANG Mingxiao, DENG Kai, WANG Weihao, et al. Effects of hydrogen volume fraction on combustion instability of methane-hydrogen lean premixed bluff-body flame[J]. Thermal power generation, 2018, 47(10): 44-50. DOI: 10.19666/j.rlfd.201712151.
Effects of hydrogen volume fraction on combustion instability of methane-hydrogen lean premixed bluff-body flame
a sinusoidal wave sound field environment with adjustable frequency and amplitude was created by loudspeakers. By taking the premixed blunt-body flame of lean combustion of methane-hydrogen mixture as the research object
the combustion instability of the whole combustion system was characterized by flame transfer functions and the motion and evolution of flame front was described by CH-based autofluorescence image. The effects of hydrogen volume fraction(0
10%
20%) on flame combustion instability under different sound field frequencies and velocity fluctuations(sound field amplitudes) were studied. The results show that
the combustion characteristics are very sensitive to the fraction of hydrogen in the fuel mixture. With an increase in the hydrogen concentration
when the sound field frequency varies within 90~105 Hz
the amplitude of flame transfer functions reduces
the flame-vortex interactions become mitigation
and the combustion instability of the premixed flame becomes weaker; when the sound field frequency changes within 115~170 Hz
the amplitude of flame transfer functions increases
the flame length becomes shorter
and the combustion instability of the premixed flame becomes stronger. With the increase of velocity fluctuation
the flame-vortex interactions become stronger at 160 Hz. As the hydrogen volume fraction increases
the drawing and entrainment of flame flow field by vortex structure improves
the fluctuations of heat release during the combustion enlarges
the amplitude of flame transfer functions increases
and the combustion instability of the premixed flame becomes stronger. These results help to understand the mechanism of combustion dynamics of methane-hydrogen flame
and develop the theory for active control strategies.