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Flame Formation of Ultrasonically-atomized Liquid-fuel Injected through a Slit-jet Nozzle

Slit-jet 노즐을 통해 분사되는 초음파 무화 액체연료 화염의 형성

  • Kim, Min Sung (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pukyong National University) ;
  • Kim, Jeong Soo (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pukyong National University)
  • Received : 2016.12.05
  • Accepted : 2017.01.14
  • Published : 2017.02.01
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Abstract

An experimental study was performed for the combustion-field visualization of the burner which burns the liquid hydrocarbon fuel atomized by an ultrasonic oscillator. Configurations of the flame and temperature gradient were caught by both high-speed camera and thermo-graphic camera, and those images were analyzed in detail through a post-processing. In addition, the fuel consumption was measured using the balance during the combustion reaction. As a result, the consumption of atomized fuel increased with the increasing flow-rate of carrier-gas, but any correlation between the air/fuel ratio and carrier-gas flow-rate was not found at the low flow-rate condition. Also, the combustion-field grew and reaction-temperature rose due to the strengthening of combustion reaction with the increasing flow-rate of carrier-gas and power consumption of ultrasonic oscillator.

초음파 진동자에 의해 미립화된 탄화수소계 액체연료를 태우는 버너의 연소특성을 고찰하기 위한 실험이 수행되었다. 고속카메라와 열화상 카메라를 이용하여 slit-jet 버너에서 생성된 화염의 이미지를 획득하였으며, 후처리를 통해 화염의 형상과 온도구배를 면밀히 분석하였다. 또한, 정밀유량 계측법을 이용하여 수송기체 실험조건 변화에 따른 연료소모량을 측정하였다. 그 결과, 수송기체 유량이 증가하면 무화된 연료의 분사량도 같이 증가한다는 사실을 확인하였으나, 낮은 유량 조건에서는 주변 장치의 진동에 의해 공연비(air/fuel ratio)와 수송기체 유량의 상관성이 관찰되지 않았다. 또한, 수송기체 유량과 초음파진동자의 소비전력이 증가하면 연소반응이 촉진되어 연소영역이 신장되고 화염온도가 증가하였다.

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