Effect of Secondary Air Inlet Ports Arrangement on N.G. Flame Combustion Characteristics

The aim of the present work is to investigate theoretically the secondary air ports arrangement on the NG flamecombustion characteristics. The normal secondary air was introduced into the combustion chamber through its first halflength. Nine different port arrangements are discussed. There are three...

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Main Author: Hamada Gad
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Language:English
Published: Port Said University 2013-09-01
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description The aim of the present work is to investigate theoretically the secondary air ports arrangement on the NG flamecombustion characteristics. The normal secondary air was introduced into the combustion chamber through its first halflength. Nine different port arrangements are discussed. There are three levels (vertical heights) groups. They are four, eigh tand sixteen levels so that first level of each group starts at 100 mm that equals 10% of the combustor len gth. Each grouplevel has four, eight and sixteen ports. Therefore the number of total ports per level is varied from 16 (four levels with fo urports) to 256 (16 levels with sixteen ports) ports. A theoretical model was used to study the different arrangements. Themodel consists of a vertical combustor with an air swirler, primary air line, and secondary air and fuel lines. The air swirlernumber and the primary air to fuel rat io are kept constant for all running conditions and they are 0.87 and 50, respec tively.A three dimensional model was used to simulate the turbulent reacting flow using computational fluid dynamics package(Fluent 6.3). For validation, the comparison between the measured and calculated axial temperature distribution was madeand shows a good agreement. A remarkable effect of using the secondary air on temperature maps was found. For any valueof SPAR > 0.0, the flame became wider in diameter and longer in length. The flame length increased by about 58, 100 and125 % when the SPAR increased from 0 to 90% for the ports arrangement of 4x4, 8x8 and 16x16 level groups, respectively
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spelling doaj.art-0460b609a8eb482c970dbaf17feaa4912023-10-23T06:13:07ZengPort Said UniversityPort Said Engineering Research Journal1110-66032536-93772013-09-01172647810.21608/pserj.2013.5057050570Effect of Secondary Air Inlet Ports Arrangement on N.G. Flame Combustion CharacteristicsHamada Gad0Department of Mechanical Power Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Port-Said University, Egypt.The aim of the present work is to investigate theoretically the secondary air ports arrangement on the NG flamecombustion characteristics. The normal secondary air was introduced into the combustion chamber through its first halflength. Nine different port arrangements are discussed. There are three levels (vertical heights) groups. They are four, eigh tand sixteen levels so that first level of each group starts at 100 mm that equals 10% of the combustor len gth. Each grouplevel has four, eight and sixteen ports. Therefore the number of total ports per level is varied from 16 (four levels with fo urports) to 256 (16 levels with sixteen ports) ports. A theoretical model was used to study the different arrangements. Themodel consists of a vertical combustor with an air swirler, primary air line, and secondary air and fuel lines. The air swirlernumber and the primary air to fuel rat io are kept constant for all running conditions and they are 0.87 and 50, respec tively.A three dimensional model was used to simulate the turbulent reacting flow using computational fluid dynamics package(Fluent 6.3). For validation, the comparison between the measured and calculated axial temperature distribution was madeand shows a good agreement. A remarkable effect of using the secondary air on temperature maps was found. For any valueof SPAR > 0.0, the flame became wider in diameter and longer in length. The flame length increased by about 58, 100 and125 % when the SPAR increased from 0 to 90% for the ports arrangement of 4x4, 8x8 and 16x16 level groups, respectivelyhttps://pserj.journals.ekb.eg/article_50570_aa538f8869a5d01ac644fd6f7f1a7ea3.pdfgas turbine combustorswirling flowsecondary aircfdcombustion characteristicsnatural gas
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Effect of Secondary Air Inlet Ports Arrangement on N.G. Flame Combustion Characteristics
Port Said Engineering Research Journal
gas turbine combustor
swirling flow
secondary air
cfd
combustion characteristics
natural gas
title Effect of Secondary Air Inlet Ports Arrangement on N.G. Flame Combustion Characteristics
title_full Effect of Secondary Air Inlet Ports Arrangement on N.G. Flame Combustion Characteristics
title_fullStr Effect of Secondary Air Inlet Ports Arrangement on N.G. Flame Combustion Characteristics
title_full_unstemmed Effect of Secondary Air Inlet Ports Arrangement on N.G. Flame Combustion Characteristics
title_short Effect of Secondary Air Inlet Ports Arrangement on N.G. Flame Combustion Characteristics
title_sort effect of secondary air inlet ports arrangement on n g flame combustion characteristics
topic gas turbine combustor
swirling flow
secondary air
cfd
combustion characteristics
natural gas
url https://pserj.journals.ekb.eg/article_50570_aa538f8869a5d01ac644fd6f7f1a7ea3.pdf
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