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    Experimental and soot modeling studies of ethylene counterflow diffusion flames: Non-monotonic influence of the oxidizer composition on soot formation

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    Xu, Lei
    Yan, Fuwu
    Zhou, Mengxiang
    Wang, Yu
    Chung, Suk Ho
    KAUST Department
    Clean Combustion Research Center
    Date
    2018-09-04
    Online Publication Date
    2018-09-04
    Print Publication Date
    2018-11
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10754/628525
    
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    Abstract
    Previous soot studies in counterflow diffusion flames revealed that the sooting limit curve in regions with large oxygen mole fractions (XO) exhibited marked bending behaviors that indicated a non-monotonic variation of sooting tendency with oxygen concentration. The underlying mechanisms of this bending behavior remained unclear. In this regard, the present study systematically investigated the effect of oxygen mole fraction in the oxidizer stream on the sooting characteristics of ethylene counterflow diffusion flames. We used the near-infrared light extinction technique to measure soot volume fractions of two types of flames that significantly differed in sooting structures: soot formation oxidation (SFO) flames with a fixed fuel mole fraction (XF) of 0.28 and varying XO between 0.5 and 1.0 and soot formation (SF) flames with pure ethylene (XF = 1.0) in the fuel stream and varied XO from 0.25 to 0.3. We also conducted detailed soot modeling studies by combining the gas-phase chemistry with a sectional soot model that accounted for soot inception, surface growth, particle coagulation as well as soot oxidation. Our experimental and modeling results demonstrated the non-monotonic relationship between soot volume fractions and XO in SFO flames. A detailed analysis of the evolutionary process of soot formation revealed that the suppression of soot inception and the enhancement of the soot oxidation process with increasing XO led to a reduction of soot volume fraction. On the contrary, the surface growth rates increased with XO, resulting in an increase in soot mass concentration. These competing effects led to the non-monotonic variation of soot volume fractions with XO in SFO flames. On the other hand, in SF flames both the inception and surface growth of soot increased as XO increased, resulting in the observed monotonic relationship between soot volume fraction and XO. We also analyzed the soot zone structures and made comparisons between SFO and SF flames.
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    Xu L, Yan F, Zhou M, Wang Y, Chung SH (2018) Experimental and soot modeling studies of ethylene counterflow diffusion flames: Non-monotonic influence of the oxidizer composition on soot formation. Combustion and Flame 197: 304–318. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.combustflame.2018.08.011.
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    This work is supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (2017YFC0211201), NationalNatural Science Foundation of China (51606136) and the 111 Project (B17034). SHC was supported by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology.
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    Elsevier BV
    Journal
    Combustion and Flame
    DOI
    10.1016/j.combustflame.2018.08.011
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    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010218018303729
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    10.1016/j.combustflame.2018.08.011
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