Combustion and Flame, Vol.125, No.1-2, 931-941, 2001
Catalytic removal of NO from post-flame gases in low pressure stagnation-point flames over platinum
Experimental NO profiles in H-2/O-2/NH3 stagnation point flames over platinum substrates are obtained with laser-induced fluorescence for a range of flame equivalence ratios and substrate temperatures. This study generates baseline data against which comprehensive gas-phase and surface chemical models of NO destruction can be compared. The experimental profiles are compared with the predictions of a one-dimensional stagnation how model that includes full gas-phase chemistry, multicomponent transport, and detailed surface chemistry. A baseline surface chemistry mechanism, assembled by using conventional H/O heterogeneous chemistry and NO adsorption and dissociation followed by N-2 desorption, provides good agreement with the experimental results for only a limited range of operating conditions. At low temperatures (425 K), the mechanism underpredicts NO removal, while at high temperatures (940 K) and fuel-lean conditions (Phi = 0.7) the mechanism overpredicts NO destruction. Addition of NH2 and N2O production to the surface mechanism does not improve the level of agreement. However, consideration of the reconstruction of the platinum surface at high temperatures tends to shift the predicted profiles closer to those observed in the experiment for the high temperature cases.