English (United Kingdom)

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/featured_content/oa?rat=en

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/highlighted_journal/

Zendy Plus

Presents the access of premium content as premium feature

Premium Content

Presents the keyphrase highlighting as premium feature

Keyphrase Highlighting

Presents the summarisation as premium feature

Summarisation

Insights

Presents the pdf analysis as premium feature

PDF Analysis

Presents the zaia usage as premium feature

ZAIA

Zendy Tools

Zendy Open

This study considers numerical simulation of the combustion of methane with air, including oxygen and nitrogen, in a burner and the numerical solution of local entropy generation rate due to high temperature and velocity gradients in the combustion chamber. The effects of equivalence ratio (Φ) and oxygen percentage (γ ) on combustion and entropy generation rates are investigated for different Φ (from 0.5 to 1.0) andγ values (from 10 to 30%). Combustion is simulated for the fuel mass flow rate resulting in the same heat transfer rate (Q)y to the combustion chamber in each case. Numerical calculation of combustion is performed individually for all cases with the use of the Fluent CFD code. Furthermore, a computer program has been developed to calculate the volumetric entropy generation rate and the other thermodynamic parameters numerically by using the results of the calculations performed with the FLUENT code. The predictions show that the increase of Φ (or the decrease of λ) significantly reduces the reaction rate levels. Average temperature in the combustion chamber increases by about 70 and 35% with increase ofγ (from 10 to 30%) and Φ (from 0.5 to 1.0) respectively. With increase ofγ from 10 to 30%, volumetric local entropy generation rate decreases by about 9 and 4% for Φ = 0.5 and 1.0 respectively, while total entropy generation rate decreases exponentially and the merit numbers increase. The ratio of the rates useful energy transfer to irreversibility therefore improves as the oxygen percentage increases

Numerical study of effect of oxygen fraction on local entropy generation in a methane-air burner