• Title/Summary/Keyword: Droplet combustion

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High-Pressure Droplet Vaporization with Emphasis on the Vapor-Liquid Equilibrium Calculation (플래쉬 상평형 계산에 의한 고압 액적기화의 수치적 연구)

  • Lee, Kang-Won;Chae, Jong-Won;Yoon, Woong-Sup
    • 한국연소학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2001.06a
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    • pp.106-118
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    • 2001
  • A rigorous study of single droplet vaporization under quiescent high pressure atmosphere is attempted adopting method of flash evaporation calculation for vapor-liquid equilibrium. Results due to flash method shows excellent agreement with measurement. Also shown is the present model fairly capable of depicting transients of droplet vaporization under high pressure environment, such as ambient gas solubility, property variation, and multicomponent transports. Systematic treatment of these effects with emphasis on vapor-liquid phase equilibrium revealed; conventional treatment for subcritical droplet vaporization, such as $d^2$-law, leads to erroneous prediction of droplet history, augmented gas solubility is significant under supercritical pressure, and vaporization rate proportionally increase with pressure.

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Theoretical Analysis of Ignition of a Coal-Water Slurry Droplets with Interior Temperature Distribution (내부 온도분포를 고려한 Coal-Water Slurry의 점화현상에 관한 이론적 해석)

  • Choi, C.E.;Baek, S.W.;Kim, J.W.
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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    • v.17 no.7 s.94
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    • pp.1823-1832
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    • 1993
  • CWS(coal-water slurry) is used for application in power plants, boilers, industrial furnaces. A single coal-water slurry droplet ignition has been examined to reveal the basic nature of their evaporation, volatilization and heating processes. The interior droplet temperature distribution has been considered. The effect of coal thermal conductivity, droplet size, water fraction in the slurry, gas temperature and velocity and radiation on the ignition phenomena were also studied. Either increasing the velocity and gas temperature or decreasing the droplet size and water fraction in the slurry may reduce the time for evaporation and ignition delay time.

Behavior of Impinging Droplet on a Solid Surface for the Variation of Fuel Temperature (연료 온도 변화에 따른 평판 충돌 액적의 거동에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Dong-Jo;Kim, Ho-Yong;Chung, Jin-Taek
    • 한국연소학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2003.12a
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    • pp.167-173
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    • 2003
  • An experimental study on the behavior of droplets impinging on a solid flat surface was carried out in the present study. Breakup of a liquid droplet impinging on a solid surface has been investigated experimentally for various fuels with different properties. The fuel temperature and incident angle were chosen as major parameters. And fuel temperature and incident angle varied in the range from $-20^{\circ}C$ to $30^{\circ}C$ and from $30^{\circ}$ to $60^{\circ}$, respectively, were investigated. It was found that the variation of fuel temperature influences upon droplet mean diameter which were bounced out from the solid surface. As the increases of incident angle, the break-out mass flow rate increases. This causes the decrease of liquid film flow rate. The larger incident angle gives less liquid film flow rate.

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A Study on the Simultaneous Measurement of Droplet Size and Velocity in a Diesel Fuel Spray (디젤 분무(噴霧) 액적(液滴)의 크기와 속도(速度) 동시계측(同時計測)에 관한 연구(硏究))

  • Chang, Y.J.;Jeon, C.H.;Park, H.l.;Kim, H.K.;Kim, S.J.
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.2 no.5
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    • pp.11-22
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    • 1994
  • The pupose of this study is to measure droplet size and velocity simultaneously for a transient diesel fuel spray in a quiescent chamber at atmospheric temperature and pressure. Generally, diesel combustion phenomena is mainly governed by characteristics of injection system and fuel spray. Therefore we need to clarify these characteristics for developing more economical diesel systems. In this study, correlation between droplet size and velocity was measured at downstream distance from nozzle. Governing parameters are pump speed and fuel quantity for the detailed nature in this transient diesel fuel spray. It is observed effect to the droplet size and velocity distribution. Velocity(peak, mean, rms), number density and droplet size were investigated simulaneously using PDA in the spray. Various results are presented to illustrate the effects of operation factors and correlation between the droplet diameter and velocity.

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Combustion Characteristics in the Offset Bowl Combustion Chamber Diesel Engine (편심된 보울의 연소실을 갖는 디젤 엔진의 연소 특성 해석)

  • 김홍석;성낙원
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.7 no.7
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    • pp.54-65
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    • 1999
  • In this study, the flow field, spray structure, and combustion process were investigated in a direct injection diesel engine having an offset bowl in a combustion chamber. The KIVA-3V code was used in this study. In order to obtain accurate results, a droplet atomization model, wall impingement model, and ignition delay concept were added to KIVA-3V code. The results showed that the offset bowl engine had a large vortex flow. The direction of this flow counteracted to the direction of fuel injection in one side of combustion chamber. It decreased local turbulent kinetic energy and eventually nonuniform combustion was resulted in an offset bowl engine. In comparison with a center bowl engine case, the peak cylinder pressure was decreased about 6%. Finally , the effect of swirl on combustion was investigated in an offset bowl engine . As the became stronger, the nouniform characteristics in combustion were increased.

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Flame Spread Mechanism of a Blended Fuel Droplet Array at Supercritical Pressure

  • Iwahashi, Takeshi;Kobayashi, Hideaki;Niioka, Takashi
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Combustion
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.15-22
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    • 2002
  • Flame spread experiments of a fuel droplet array were performed using a microgravity environment. N-decane, 1-octadecene, and the blends (50% : 50% vol.) of these fuels were used and the experiments were conducted at pressures up to 5.0 MPa, which are over the critical pressure of these fuels. Observations of the flame spread phenomenon were conducted for OH radical emission images recorded using a high-speed video camera. The flame spread rates were calculated based on the time history of the spreading forehead of the OH emission images. The flame spread rate of the n-decane droplet-array decreased with pressure and had its minimum at a pressure around half of the critical pressure and then increased again with pressure. It had its maximum at a pressure over the critical pressure and then decreased gradually. The pressure dependence of flame spread rate of 1-octadecene were similar to those of n-decan, but the magnitude of the spread rate was much smaller than that of n-decane. The variation of the flame spread for the blended fuel was similar to that of n-decane in the pressure range from atmospheric pressure to near the critical pressure of the blended fuel. When the pressure increased further, it approached to that of 1-octadecene. Numerically estimated gas-liquid equilibrium states proved that almost all the fuel gas which evaporated from the droplet at ordinary pressure consisted of n-decane whereas near and over the critical pressure, the composition of the fuel gas was almost the same as that of the liquid phase, so that the effects of 1-octadecene on the flame spread rate was significant.

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Measurements of sooting in single droplet combustion under the normal-gravity condition (정상 중력장하의 단일 액적연소에 있어서 매연 농도의 측정)

  • Lee, Gyeong-Uk;Lee, Chang-Eon;O, Su-Cheol
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.468-480
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    • 1998
  • The temporal and spatial distributions of soot volume fractions were measured for single toluene droplet flames as a function of pressure under the normal-gravity condition. In order to characterize the transient nature of the flame and sooting regions, a full-field light extinction and subsequent tomographic inversion technique was used. The reduction in sooting as a function of pressure was assessed by comparison of the maximum soot volume fractions at several vertical positions along the axis above the droplet. The maximum soot volume fraction was reduced by 70% when the pressure was reduced by 60% from 1 atm to 0.4 atm. The reduction in sooting is attributed to variation of the geometric configuration of flame which reduces the system Grashof number as well as only the change in the adiabatic flame temperature as the pressure decreases. The gravimetrically-measured total soot yield was also compared to the optically-measured soot volume fraction to obtain a correlation between the two measurements. As a result, the total soot yield was linearly proportional to the optically-measured maximum soot volume fraction and linearly reduced as the pressure decreased. Accordingly, the non-intrusive full-field light extinction-measurements were able to be calibrated not only to measure soot volume fraction, but to simultaneously evaluate the total soot yield emitted from the toluene droplet flame (which is useful in the practical application).

Extinguishment of Liquid Fuel Fire by Water Mist Containing Additives

  • Park, Jae-Man;Won, Jung-Il;Shin, Chang-Sub
    • International Journal of Safety
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    • v.4 no.2
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    • pp.24-29
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    • 2005
  • An experimental study was presented for extinguishing characteristics of liquid fuel fire by water mist($Dv_{0.99}{\leq}200{\mu}m$) containing potassium acetate and sodium acetate trihydrate. To evaluate the extinguishing performance of water mist containing additives, the evaporation characteristics of a water droplet on a heated surface was examined. The evaporation process was recorded by a charge-coupled-device camera. Also, small-scale extinguishing tests were conducted for n-heptane pool fire in ventilated space. During the experiments, flame temperatures were measured, and concentrations of oxygen and carbon monoxide were analyzed by a combustion gas analyzer. The average evaporation rate of water droplet containing additives was lower than that of pure water at a given surface temperature and decreased with the concentration increase due to the precipitation of salt in the liquid-film and change of surface tension. In case of using additives, the fire extinguishing times was shorter than that of pure water at a given discharge pressure and it was because the momentum of a water droplet containing additives was increased. And also dissociated metal atoms, potassium or sodium, were reacted as a scavenger of the major radical species OH, H which were generated for combustion process. Moreover, at a high pressure of 4 MPa, the fire was extinguished through blowing effect as well as primary extinguishing mechanisms.

Molecular Dynamics Simulation of First-Order Phase Transition (일차 상변화 과정의 분자 동력학적 모사)

  • Lee, Jae-Yeon;Yoon, Woong-Sup
    • 한국연소학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2004.11a
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    • pp.161-166
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    • 2004
  • A study of argon droplet vaporization is conducted using molecular dynamics. Instead of using traditional method such as the Navier-Stokes equation. Molecular dynamics uses Lagrangian frame to describe molecular behavior in a system and uses only momentum and position data of all molecules in the system. So every property is not a hypothetical input but a statistical result calculated from the momentum and position data. This work performed a simulation of the first-order stability for phase transition of a three dementional submicron argon droplet within quiescent environment. Lennard-Jones 12-6 potential function is used as a intermolecular potential function. The molecular configuration is examined while an initially non-sperical droplet is changed into the spherical shape and droplet evaporates or condensates.

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