Open AccessThe Effects of Combustion Parameters on Pollutant Emissions in a Porous Burner
Author(s) -
Negin Moallemi Khiavi
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
international journal of spray and combustion dynamics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.614
H-Index - 16
eISSN - 1756-8285
pISSN - 1756-8277
DOI - 10.1260/1756-8277.6.2.147
Subject(s) - combustor , combustion , porosity , pollutant , materials science , mechanics , porous medium , methane , heat transfer , inlet , thermodynamics , environmental science , chemistry , composite material , geology , physics , organic chemistry , geomorphology
This paper reports a two-dimensional numerical prediction of premixed methane/air combustion in inert porous media. The two dimensional Navier-stokes equations, the two separate energy equations for solid and gas and conservation equations for chemical species are solved using finite volume method based on SIMPLE algorithm. The burner under study is a rectangular one with two different regions. First region is a preheating zone (low porosity matrix) that followed by the actual combustion region (high porosity matrix). For simulating the chemical reactions, skeletal mechanism (26 species and 77 reactions) is used. For studying the pollutant emissions in this porous burner, the effects of porous matrix properties, excess air ratio and inlet velocity are studied. The predicted gas temperature contour and pollutant formations are in good agreement with the available experimental data. The results indicate that the downstream of the burner should be constructed from materials with high conductivity, high convective heat transfer coefficient and high porosity in order to decrease the CO and NO emissions. Also, with increasing the inlet velocity of gas mixture and the excess air ratio, the pollutant emissions are decreased