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The impact of ammonia addition on soot formation in ethylene flames
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Author(s)
Tian, L
Lindstedt, RP
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
The present work investigates computationally the impact of blending ammonia with ethylene on soot formation in four laminar diffusion flames and the corresponding turbulent partially premixed flames. The conditions conform to experimental investigations (Bennett et al., Combust. Flame, 2020, and Boyette et al., Combust. Flame, 2021) with both sets of flames featuring identical fuel blends. A mass and number density preserving sectional method was applied to all cases with the soot surface growth and oxidation models updated to include reactions with oxides of nitrogen. The gas phase chemistry was extended to include a comprehensively validated ammonia sub-mechanism. For the laminar flames, the inception of soot particles is based on detailed chemistry with pyrene treated as representative of the PAH pool. The accuracy of fitting a global acetylene-based inception step is evaluated for the different fuel blends and subsequently applied to the turbulent flames using a fully coupled transported joint probability density function method featuring an 84-dimensional joint-scalar space. Results obtained for laminar flames show that detailed chemistry coupled with the sectional soot model provides excellent agreement with the measured suppression of the soot volume fraction with increased use of ammonia. Computed particle size distributions (PSDs) show an increase in smaller soot particles under such conditions, consistent with experimental observations. The experimentally observed reduced impact in turbulent flames is also reproduced computationally. The suppression of soot is principally caused by changes in the radical pool leading to reduced soot surface growth and, to a lesser extent, soot inception. The contribution of oxides of nitrogen to soot oxidation is modest. Computed PSDs in laminar and turbulent flames highlight the importance of differences in flame structures and flowfield timescales.
Date Issued
2023-12
Date Acceptance
2023-03-05
Citation
Combustion and Flame, 2023, 258 (Part 1)
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/110178
URL
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.combustflame.2023.112724
DOI
https://www.dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.combustflame.2023.112724
ISSN
0010-2180
Publisher
Elsevier
Journal / Book Title
Combustion and Flame
Volume
258
Issue
Part 1
Copyright Statement
0010-2180/© 2023 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of The Combustion Institute. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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Attribution 4.0 International
Identifier
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.combustflame.2023.112724
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
112724
Date Publish Online
2023-03-29
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