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Reduction of Lean VOC Emission by Reforming with a Rotating Arc Plasma and Combustion with a Turbulent Partially-Premixed Flame

난류 부분예혼합화염과 로테이팅 아크 플라즈마를 이용한 난연성 유증기의 연소처리

  • Ahn, Taekook (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Dankook University) ;
  • Lee, Daehoon (Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials) ;
  • Park, Sunho (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Dankook University)
  • Received : 2016.12.28
  • Accepted : 2017.02.21
  • Published : 2017.03.30
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Abstract

Large-scale fuel tanks emit massive amount of hardly-combustible VOC mixtures which are light hydrocarbon species in dilution with nitrogen and carbon dioxide. We have developed a lab-scale burner to combust those VOC mixtures by use of a turbulent partially-premixed flame as a pilot flame. For a higher HC treatment ratio, the mixture gases were reformed by a rotating arc plasma device. The results showed that the nitrogen mole fraction and the injecting speed of the VOC mixture influence on the performance of the burner. It was also found that the size of the pilot flame and the power supplied to the plasma device determine the overall HC treatment ratio and the concentrations of CO and NOx in the exhaust gas.

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