Lycopodium Dust Flame Characteristics Considering Char Yield

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1 School of Mechanical Engineering Department of Energy Conversion, Combustion Research Laboratory, Iran university of Science and Technology, Narmak, Tehran, Iran

2 School of Mechanical Engineering Department of Aerospace Engineering, Iran university of Science and Technology, Narmak, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Organic dust flames deal with a field of science in which many complicated phenomena like pyrolysis or devolatization of solid particles and combustion of volatile and char particles take place. One-dimensional flame propagation in the cloud of fuel mixture has been analyzed in which flame structure is divided into three zones: preheat zone, reaction zone and post flame zone.It is assumed that particles pyrolyze first to yield a fuel mixture consisting of gaseous and charry fuel. In this research, the effect of char content on pyrolysis process has taken into account and a novel non-linear burning velocity correlation is obtained. Our results are in a reasonable agreement with experimental data.

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Scientia Iranica
Volume 20, Issue 6 - Serial Number 12
Transactions on Mechanical Engineering (B)
December 2013
Pages 1781-1791

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