Liquid fuel combustion: Droplets formation, vaporization and combustion

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Spray/Droplets formation, vaporization and combustion are the processes controlling the efficiency and emissions of power generation systems such as gas turbine and diesel engine. In the combustion chamber of these systems, upon its injection, liquid fuel breaks up into droplets to increase the mixing between the oxidant and fuel but more importantly to ease and enhance the vaporization process of liquid fuel and hence the combustion performance. Therefore, understanding these processes is crucial for the design and development of these systems. Although the characteristics of a liquid jet injected into a gaseous flow have been studied extensively, there still remain many challenges. This is due mainly to a) the complex nature of this two-phase flow phenomenon and b) the fact that these processes depend on the engine load requirements as well as the injection system, and state and conditions of the surroundings fluid flow.