Methane-air diffusion filtration combustion in a radiative round-jet burner was numerically investigated in this work.The purpose of this study was focused on the effects of porous media porosity and gas velocity on t...Methane-air diffusion filtration combustion in a radiative round-jet burner was numerically investigated in this work.The purpose of this study was focused on the effects of porous media porosity and gas velocity on temperature distribution and CO and NO_(x)emissions.Reduced chemical kinetics was used where air and methane were assumed to be at their stoichiometric ratio,while thermo-physical properties were varied per the solid matrix porosity variation.Combustion characteristics were evaluated based on conduction and radiation as the two primary heat transfer modes within the solid matrix.Numerical simulations were carried out based on a packed bed with 3 mm alumina pellets.Results show that combustion temperature increases while the temperature gradient decreases with the increase in porosity,yielding higher NO_(x),and lower CO emissions.Furthermore,the combustion temperature is the lowest and most uniformly distributed with 1 m/s and 3 m/s gas velocities,wherewith 3 m/s gas velocity,combustion occurs outside of the porous zone.The corresponding NO_(x)and CO emissions are the lowest with 1 m/s gas velocity and increase with the increase in gas velocity from 1 m/s to 10m/s.展开更多
文摘Methane-air diffusion filtration combustion in a radiative round-jet burner was numerically investigated in this work.The purpose of this study was focused on the effects of porous media porosity and gas velocity on temperature distribution and CO and NO_(x)emissions.Reduced chemical kinetics was used where air and methane were assumed to be at their stoichiometric ratio,while thermo-physical properties were varied per the solid matrix porosity variation.Combustion characteristics were evaluated based on conduction and radiation as the two primary heat transfer modes within the solid matrix.Numerical simulations were carried out based on a packed bed with 3 mm alumina pellets.Results show that combustion temperature increases while the temperature gradient decreases with the increase in porosity,yielding higher NO_(x),and lower CO emissions.Furthermore,the combustion temperature is the lowest and most uniformly distributed with 1 m/s and 3 m/s gas velocities,wherewith 3 m/s gas velocity,combustion occurs outside of the porous zone.The corresponding NO_(x)and CO emissions are the lowest with 1 m/s gas velocity and increase with the increase in gas velocity from 1 m/s to 10m/s.