Numerical investigation of pressure effects on soot formation in laminar coflow ethylene/air diffusion flames
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Clean Combustion Research CenterComputational Reacting Flow Laboratory (CRFL)
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Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division
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2021-02-21Online Publication Date
2021-02-21Print Publication Date
2021-05Embargo End Date
2023-02-21Submitted Date
2020-10-13Permanent link to this record
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This study aims to provide fundamental understandings of the pressure effects on the soot formation and compare the performances of different soot aerosol models. Numerical simulations are performed in laminar coflow diffusion flames at pressures ranging from 1 to 16 bar. Two soot aerosol models are considered: the acetylene-based semi-empirical (SE) model and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) based hybrid method of moment (HMOM). To study the effect of large-sized PAH species, a detailed reaction mechanism is used with PAH pathways up to coronene. Results show that the SE model provides good predictions of pressure scaling of peak soot mass with a deviation of 7%, while HMOM obtains better soot predictions on the flame centerline. Due to the shifting of PAH position towards the burner with increasing pressure, the nascent soot is formed earlier. The increase in the particle residence time is found to be an additional factor that further promotes the increased soot formation with pressure, apart from the increase in density, temperature, and PAH concentration. The residence time at 8 bar case is 2.5 times and 3.0 times longer than those at 1 bar case on the flame centerline and flame wings, respectively. Moreover, the pressure effects on the PAH contribution to the nucleation process are studied. Although small-sized PAH species (A2 and A2R5) dominate the nucleation process, the contribution of large-sized PAH species (larger than A4) increases from 5% to 20% of the total on the flame wings, when the pressure increases from 1 bar to 8 bar.Citation
Guo, J., Tang, Y., Raman, V., & Im, H. G. (2021). Numerical investigation of pressure effects on soot formation in laminar coflow ethylene/air diffusion flames. Fuel, 292, 120176. doi:10.1016/j.fuel.2021.120176Sponsors
The work was sponsored by the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and computational resources were provided by the KAUST Supercomputing Laboratory (KSL).Publisher
Elsevier BVJournal
FuelAdditional Links
https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0016236121000521ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1016/j.fuel.2021.120176