화학공학소재연구정보센터
Combustion and Flame, Vol.203, 217-229, 2019
Quantitative imaging of nitric oxide concentration in a turbulent n-heptane spray flame
The present work reports quantitative planar imaging of Nitric Oxide (NO) concentration in a dilute spray flame at atmospheric pressure, contributing to CORIA Rouen Spray Burner (CRSB) database. Mean NO mole fraction (chi(NO)) is measured using planar laser-induced fluorescence (PLIF) technique, while the flame front is located simultaneously using OH-PLIF. An optimum NO excitation scheme is selected to minimize temperature-quenching dependence based on LIF simulations. Furthermore, the temperature and collisional quenching effects on NO fluorescence are corrected by using the temperature and gas composition obtained from large eddy simulation performed in previous work [Proc. Combust. Inst., 36 (2017), 2567-2575]. Additionally, interference in NO-PLIF from polycyclic aromatic or unburned hydrocarbon fluorescence is corrected by detuned (NO off-transition) signal subtraction. The spatial distribution of chi(NO) is discussed in the context of a spray flame topology, which exhibits two distinct branches. The results suggest the formation of prompt NO on the inner composite branch (fuel-lean and non-premixed) and thermal NO on the outer pure non-premixed branch. chi(NO) at 60 mm height above burner measures 33 ppm near the inner branch, and 75 ppm around the outer branch. (C) 2019 The Combustion Institute. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.