KINETIC MECHANISM, STRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES OF PREMIXED FLAMES IN HYDROGEN-OXYGEN-NITROGEN MIXTURES
KINETIC MECHANISM, STRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES OF PREMIXED FLAMES IN HYDROGEN-OXYGEN-NITROGEN MIXTURES
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DOI:
10.1098/rsta.1979.0045
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发表时间:
1979-01-01
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5
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DIXONLEWIS, G
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DIXONLEWIS, G
The composite flux method described by Dixon-Lewis, Goldsworthy & Greenberg (1.975a)for the computation of detailed temperature and composition profiles in suitable flames has been applied to the simulation of the properties of a number of fuel-rich and fuel-lean hydrogen-oxygen-nitrogen flame systems. The reaction mechanism proposed by Day, Dixon-Lewis & Thompson (1972), extended to include all the reverse reactions, has been used in the simulation, together with assumed sets of reaction rate and transport parameters. The computed profiles have then been compared with published measurements in flames, covering a wide range of experimental conditions, in order to arrive iteratively at an optimum, self-consistent set of rate parameters which also takes full account of the available elementary reaction rate data from sources other than flames. The flame properties considered in this part of the investigation were (a) radical recombination profiles in both fuel-rich and fuel-lean flames, and (b) the burning velocities and properties of the main reaction zones of several low temperature, slow burning, fuel-rich flames. Three sets of rate parameters which satisfy all the constraints, and which differ only in detail, are given as sets 1, 2 and 3 in table 4 of the paper. Measurements by Kaskan (1958b) of radical recombination in the hydrogen-lean systems have used the (0, 0) band ultraviolet absorption of the hydroxyl radical in order to measure its concentration. The interpretation of the measurements so as also to be consistent with the remaining flame measurements by other methods additionally allows a determination of the oscillator strength associated with the transition. A band oscillator strengthsf00— 9.5 x 10-4was found. Following the establishment of the reaction rate parameters, one set of these (table 9) was used to calculate the expected properties of the whole composition range of hydrogen-air premixed flames. In these cases, as well as in the calculations already summarized, either partial equilibrium or kinetic quasi-steady state assumptions must be used in conjunction with the composite flux method. Partial equilibrium assumptions on the reactionsmay be employed to relate the concentrations of H, OH, O and O2in calculations where only the concentration profiles in the recombination regions of the flames are required. In the calculation of complete flame properties, quasi-steady state assumptions must be used to relate the concentrations either of O, OH and HO2with that of H (rich flame formulation), or of H, O and HO2with that of OH (lean flame formulation). Subsequent investigation showed that the quasi-steady state assumptions were not completely valid for oxygen atoms everywhere in the flames. Nevertheless, further calculations on several flames by the completely different approach of implicit finite difference solution of the time-dependent flame equations, which does not involve any quasi-steady state assumptions, led to results essentially identical with the original computations. The departures from the quasi-steady state do not therefore significantly affect the flame properties computed by the composite flux method. The general pattern of flame structure which emerges from the complete flame calculations is one in which radicals are produced by chain branching reactions in the hotter regions of the flames, while the major heat releasing reactions occur at lower temperatures. Ahead of the heat release zone there is only a very small preheat zone where heating occurs purely by thermal conduction. This behaviour is different from that of flame …