Bo Chen¹, Mingjun Wang², Bo Liu^3,*, Chunping Lu⁴, Guohai Jia¹, Yong Chao⁵, Chao Zhong¹

Journal of Renewable Materials, Vol.12, No.1, pp. 119-129, 2024, DOI:10.32604/jrm.2023.031521 - 23 January 2024

Abstract In order to study the combustion characteristics of tar in biomass gasifier inner wall and gasification gas, “tobacco stem semi-tar inside furnace”, “tobacco stem tar inside furnace” and “tobacco stem tar out-of-furnace” were subjected to thermogravimetric experiments, and the combustion characteristics and kinetic characteristics were analyzed. The result shows that “tobacco stem semi-tar inside furnace” has the highest value and “tobacco stem tar out-of-furnace” is has the lowest value on ignition characteristics, combustion characteristics and combustible stability; “tobacco stem semi-tar inside furnace” has the lowest value and “tobacco stem tar outside furnace” has the highest More > Graphic Abstract

Binbin Yang^1,*, Leilei Liu¹, Yan Zhang¹, Jingyu Gong¹, Fan Zhang², Tiezhu Zhang¹

Energy Engineering, Vol.120, No.10, pp. 2233-2250, 2023, DOI:10.32604/ee.2023.028898 - 28 September 2023

Abstract Gasoline compression ignition (GCI) has been considered as a promising combustion concept to yield ultra-low NO_X and soot emissions while maintaining high thermal efficiency. However, how to improve the low-load performance becomes an urgent issue to be solved. In this paper, a GCI engine model was built to investigate the effects of internal EGR (i-EGR) and pre-injection on in-cylinder temperature, spatial concentration of mixture and OH radical, combustion and emission characteristics, and the control strategy for improving the combustion performance was further explored. The results showed an obvious expansion of the zone with an equivalence ratio… More >

Hemaizia Abdelkader^*, Bentebbiche Abdelhalim

FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.18, No.6, pp. 1749-1762, 2022, DOI:10.32604/fdmp.2022.022006 - 27 June 2022

Abstract The effect of swirl number (Sn) on the flow behavior and combustion characteristics of a lean premixed propane Flame Ф = 0.5 in a swirl burner configuration was numerically verified in this study. Two-dimensional numerical simulations were performed using ANSYS-Fluent software. For turbulence closure, a standard K-ε turbulence model was applied. The turbulence-chemistry interaction scheme was modeled using the Finite Rate-Eddy Dissipation hybrid model (FR/EDM) with a reduced three-step reaction mechanism. The P1 radiation model was used for the flame radiation inside the combustion chamber. Four different swirl numbers were selected (0, 0.72, 1.05, and… More >

Feiyang Li, Jianfeng Pan^*, Chenxin Zhang, Evans K. Quaye, Xia Shao

Energy Engineering, Vol.118, No.4, pp. 1135-1154, 2021, DOI:10.32604/EE.2021.014366 - 31 May 2021

Abstract In order to obtain the combustion characteristics of the CH₄/Air premixed flame under the action of the wall interaction, a study on the impact of the jet flame on the wall at different separation distances was carried out. The separation distance from the burner outlet to the lower surface of the wall is changed and the flame structure is obtained through experiments. The temperature, velocity and reaction rate are obtained through numerical simulation, and the law of flame characteristics change is obtained through analysis. The results show that as the separation distance increases, the premixing cone… More >

Zhongjia Li¹, Jianfeng Pan^1,*, Hongjun Liu¹, Baowei Fan¹, Wenming Yang², Abiodun Oluwaleke Ojo¹

Energy Engineering, Vol.118, No.3, pp. 581-603, 2021, DOI:10.32604/EE.2021.014378 - 22 March 2021

Abstract In order to improve the performance of the rotary engine, this paper has designed a new type of dual-pit rotary engine combustion chamber structure, and compares the combustion and emission characteristics with the rotary engine with a traditional combustion chamber. The existence of the dual-pit combustion chamber strengthens the overall vortex intensity in the cylinder, effectively promotes the mixing process of fuel and air in the cylinder, the maximum combustion pressure in the cylinder increased by 8.6%, significantly increases the diffusion combustion speed, and significantly improves the dynamic performance of the rotary engine. On this… More >

Jong Seong Chae¹, Seok Wan Kim², Tae In Ohm^1,*

Journal of Renewable Materials, Vol.8, No.7, pp. 789-799, 2020, DOI:10.32604/jrm.2020.010023 - 01 June 2020

Abstract In the production (as co-fuel or alone) of solid refuse fuel (SRF), knowledge about the characteristics of the raw materials is required for an ecofriendly and effective combustion process. SRFs are commonly produced by drying combustible waste and removing incombustible matter, resulting in a higher combustibility as compared to the original waste. However, the characteristics of SRFs may highly vary depending on where and from which materials they were produced. Thus, we investigated the characteristics of various SRFs using thermogravimetric analysis (TGA). As a TGA sample is commonly small, on the scale of milligrams, and,… More >

Lei Zhang¹, Haiyan Wang^1,*, Junpeng Zhang¹, Zhi Wang², Zuohui Xu¹, Xinyu Gao¹

Journal of Renewable Materials, Vol.8, No.3, pp. 219-237, 2020, DOI:10.32604/jrm.2020.09096 - 01 March 2020

Abstract The effects of the number of layers, the arrangement of carbon fiber (CF) tow and the epoxy resin (ER) matrix on the fire performance of carbon fiber/epoxy composites (CFEC) were studied by a variety of experimental methods. The results show that the number of layers of CF tow has influence on the combustion characteristics and fire propagation of the composites. The arrangement of CF tow has influence on flame propagation rate and high temperature mechanicalproperties. The mechanism of the influence of the number of layers of CF tow on the composite is mainly due to… More >

Junjie Chen^* , Baofang Liu, Longfei Yan, Deguang Xu

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.11, pp. 1-15, 2018, DOI:10.5098/hmt.11.2

Abstract The combustion and emissions characteristics of methane-air mixtures in high-temperature catalytic micro-combustors were studied numerically. Both the heterogeneous and homogeneous chemistry were modeled simultaneously using detailed reaction mechanisms in order to better understand the role of each pathway in determining the product distributions. Computational fluid dynamics simulations were performed at a variety of pressures, temperatures, compositions, and combustor dimensions to determine their effects on the combustion and emissions characteristics. Comparisons were made between the results obtained for a purely heterogeneous case, a purely homogeneous case, and a coupled homogeneousheterogeneous case. It was shown that homogeneous More >

Junjie Chen^*, Longfei Yan, Wenya Song

Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol.5, pp. 1-6, 2014, DOI:10.5098/hmt.5.16

Abstract To understand the effect of different thermal conductivities on catalytic combustion characteristics, effect of thermal conductivity on micro-combustion characteristics of hydrogen-air mixtures in Pt/γ-Al₂O₃ catalytic micro-combustors were investigated numerically with detailed chemical kinetics mechanisms. Three kinds of wall materials (100, 7.5, and 0.5 W/m·K) were selected to investigate the effect of heat conduction on the catalytic combustion. The simulation results indicate that the catalytic reaction restrains the gas phase reaction in Pt/γ-Al₂O₃ catalytic micro-combustors. The gas phase reaction restrained by Pt/γ-Al₂O₃ catalysts is sensitive to thermal boundary condition at the wall. For most conditions, the gas phase More >