Combustion performance of a two-layer porous inert medium burner at different low powers

Abstract- Improving the performance of modern combustion systems in many engineering application fields has great favorable impact on the energy conservation and global environmental pollution. This can be done through developing state of the art techniques for this purpose. One of them is the combu...

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Main Authors: Saeed Yahya, Ayman Bakry, Omer Mehrez
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Language:Arabic
Published: Faculty of Engineering, Tanta University 2021-12-01
Series:Journal of Engineering Research - Egypt
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Online Access:https://erjeng.journals.ekb.eg/article_204419_dd303ca0a6894d1351f6a9e108470e36.pdf
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description Abstract- Improving the performance of modern combustion systems in many engineering application fields has great favorable impact on the energy conservation and global environmental pollution. This can be done through developing state of the art techniques for this purpose. One of them is the combustion within porous media burners. The two-layer porous inert medium burner (PIM) has significant merits such as high burning ratios, very low emission levels, high levels of the combustion stability, and operation at ultra-lean excess air ratios. The main work is to examine a new PIM design has a square cross-section area with two porous layers namely, aluminum oxide as the subcritical layer (quenching layer) and silicon carbide (SiC) as the supercritical layer each of 130 x 130 mm. The burner performance was estimated by recording the axial temperature profile at the selected operated thermal powers. The extent of the combustion stability limits between the flashback limit to the blow-off limit was improved. The excess air ratios of the stability limits at powers 0.7, 1.5, 2.5 kW were deduced to be (1.9-2.8), (1.8-2.6), and (1.5-2.4), respectively. The exhaust emissions were measured by a gas analyzer. The results revealed low levels of the CO emissions and decreased with increasing the operated thermal power. The CO ppm recorded the order of hundreds at powers 0.7 and 1.5 kW but reached the order of tens at power 2.5 kW. The NOx emission recorded ultra-low levels and increase with increasing the thermal power but not exceed 2 ppm.
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spelling doaj-art-3baf6021be2147a487209ce8c4ce26732025-08-20T02:23:41ZaraFaculty of Engineering, Tanta UniversityJournal of Engineering Research - Egypt2356-94412735-48732021-12-0154253710.21608/erjeng.2021.100517.1030204419Combustion performance of a two-layer porous inert medium burner at different low powersSaeed Yahya0Ayman Bakry1Omer Mehrez2Mechanical Power Department, Faculty of Engineering, Tanta University, Tanta, EgyptMechanical Power Department, Faculty of Engineering, Tanta University, Egypt.Mechanical Power Department, Faculty of Engineering, Tanta University, Tanta, EgyptAbstract- Improving the performance of modern combustion systems in many engineering application fields has great favorable impact on the energy conservation and global environmental pollution. This can be done through developing state of the art techniques for this purpose. One of them is the combustion within porous media burners. The two-layer porous inert medium burner (PIM) has significant merits such as high burning ratios, very low emission levels, high levels of the combustion stability, and operation at ultra-lean excess air ratios. The main work is to examine a new PIM design has a square cross-section area with two porous layers namely, aluminum oxide as the subcritical layer (quenching layer) and silicon carbide (SiC) as the supercritical layer each of 130 x 130 mm. The burner performance was estimated by recording the axial temperature profile at the selected operated thermal powers. The extent of the combustion stability limits between the flashback limit to the blow-off limit was improved. The excess air ratios of the stability limits at powers 0.7, 1.5, 2.5 kW were deduced to be (1.9-2.8), (1.8-2.6), and (1.5-2.4), respectively. The exhaust emissions were measured by a gas analyzer. The results revealed low levels of the CO emissions and decreased with increasing the operated thermal power. The CO ppm recorded the order of hundreds at powers 0.7 and 1.5 kW but reached the order of tens at power 2.5 kW. The NOx emission recorded ultra-low levels and increase with increasing the thermal power but not exceed 2 ppm.https://erjeng.journals.ekb.eg/article_204419_dd303ca0a6894d1351f6a9e108470e36.pdfporous inert mediaaluminum oxide materialcombustion stabilityemissions levels
spellingShingle Saeed Yahya
Ayman Bakry
Omer Mehrez
Combustion performance of a two-layer porous inert medium burner at different low powers
Journal of Engineering Research - Egypt
porous inert media
aluminum oxide material
combustion stability
emissions levels
title Combustion performance of a two-layer porous inert medium burner at different low powers
title_full Combustion performance of a two-layer porous inert medium burner at different low powers
title_fullStr Combustion performance of a two-layer porous inert medium burner at different low powers
title_full_unstemmed Combustion performance of a two-layer porous inert medium burner at different low powers
title_short Combustion performance of a two-layer porous inert medium burner at different low powers
title_sort combustion performance of a two layer porous inert medium burner at different low powers
topic porous inert media
aluminum oxide material
combustion stability
emissions levels
url https://erjeng.journals.ekb.eg/article_204419_dd303ca0a6894d1351f6a9e108470e36.pdf
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