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http://dx.doi.org/10.3795/KSME-B.2012.36.2.211

Combustion Characteristics of a Premixed Burner in a Stirling Engine for a Domestic Cogeneration System  

Ahn, Joon (School of Mechanical Engineering, Kookmin Univ.)
Lee, Youn-Sik (Korea Institute of Energy Research)
Kim, Hyouck-Ju (Korea Institute of Energy Research)
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Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B / v.36, no.2, 2012 , pp. 211-216 More about this Journal
Abstract
The availability of thermal energy has been widely recognized recently, and the cascade usage of thermal energy from combustion has been encouraged. Within this framework, a 1-kW-class Stirling-engine.based cogeneration system has been proposed as a unit of a distributed energy system. The capacity has been designed to be adequate for domestic usage, which requires high compactness as well as low emissions and noise. To develop a highly efficient system satisfying these requirements, a premixed slot-type short-flame burner has been proposed, and a series of experiments has been performed to understand its combustion characteristics. Flame images have been captured to observe the dependence of the flame mode on the combustion load and air/fuel ratio. The exhaust gas has been sampled and analyzed to study the emission characteristics for each flame mode.
Keywords
Stirling Engine; Burner; Premixed Combustion; Surface Combustion;
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