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In this paper, a one-dimensional and two-dimensional numerical approach is used to study the effect of various parameters such as micro combustor height, mass flow rate and external convection heat transfer coefficient on the temperature and species mass fraction profiles. A premixed mixture of H2-Air with a multi-step chemistry (9 species and 19 reactions) is used. The transient gas phase energy and species conservation equations result in an Advection-Diffusion-Reaction system (A-D-R) that leads to two stiff systems of PDEs, which can not be solved by conventional Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) methods. In the present work, Strang splitting method, which is suitable for nonlinear stiff... 

HCCI engines have lower NOX and PM emissions and higher thermal efficiency compared to spark ignition engines. But these engines have some deficiencies which up to now have prevented their widespread employment. These engines have not been very successful at high loads and speeds and in these conditions normally produce high pollution and noise. In order to solve this problem the present research proposes to equip the HCCI engines with fuel injection system so that at low loads and speeds operate at HCCI engine mode and at loads and speeds higher than pre-set limits, use the fuel injection system in order to operate at a combined HCCI and compression ignition engine mode and provide a... 

Porous burner technology has many advantages in comparison with conventional burners such as higher burner thermal performance, lower pollutants emission, high power ranges, fuel flexibility, compact geometry and higher turn down ratios. These kinds of burners are made of preheated porous combustion zone and combustion porous zone that have different thermophysical and geometrical properties. In this work, the transient one-dimensional multi-step premixed laminar reacting flows in a two-stage porous media burner have been investigated. The combustible mixture is considered H2-Air (9 species and 19 reactions) and CH4-Air (22 species and 49 reactions). In porous media, without lateral wall... 

In this project, one-dimensional and two-dimensional numerical approaches are used to study the effect of applying electrohydrodynamics on the temperature and species mass fraction profiles along the micro-combustor. A premixed mixture of H2-Air with a multi-step chemistry (9 species and 19 reactions) is used and thermal conductivity of the mixture is considered as a function of species thermal conductivity and temperature by using a set of new relations. Both thermal and radical quenching mechanisms are important in the micro-scale combustion due to increasing of area-to-volume ratio and significant heat loss from the combustor walls. By inserting a number of electrodes into the... 

The purpose of this project is modeling and solving equation of an open cycle system based on MHD generator in order to achiving geometrical properties of generator shuch as length and cross sections of channel and extractable electrical power. In this work hydrogen is used as initial fuel and it’s combustion product near oxygen as working fluid in an open cycle system concluding of combustion chamber, convergence nozzle, farady generator with separated electrod’s and constant mach number and also diffuser. Motion of fluid is considered one dimentional and direction of magnetic field with magnitude of 2 tesla is assumed to be perpendicular to motion and electrical current directs. For... 

Combustion procedure in porous media is of great importance and also has numerous technical applications. Currently several usages of porous burners in thermodynamic engineering and thermal industries have been identified, in which they perform based on stabilized combustion in porous media. Among the advantages that porous burners have over conventional burners are pollution reduction, decrease in burner dimension, enhanced flame stabilization and also noise reduction.
According to physical and chemical attributes of porous material, combustion can occur in one of the three main types of media including: inert, catalytic, combustible. The concepts mentioned in this proposal are... 

A novel reduced mechanism is introduced which aimed to predicts NOx and CO generation in advanced industrial gas turbine combustors. The survey is initially conducted by considering 25 species in GRI-3 mechanism of Methane oxidation and continued to choose nine of the most important species based on the quasi-steady state analysis. Finally, a new skeletal reduced mechanism with 35 reactions and 20 species is derived using sensitivity analysis, reaction path analysis, and some physical reasons. The overall validity of this mechanism is clearly confirmed by comparing the present predicted results with GRI-3 full mechanism in a PSR reactor. The adiabatic flame temperature and all of the main... 

Operational wastes of nuclear power plants are classified according to their radioactivity level & physical state. According to the radioactivity level, operational wastes are divided into low level waste (LLW) & intermediate wastes (ILW); & based on physical state they are divided into 3 groups of wet solid & liquid wastes, dry solid wastes & gaseous wastes.Bushehr nuclear power plants produce 1600 barrels of waste per year, among which dry solid waste is about 40 percent. According to the physical nature & treatment methods used, the dry solid waste is further classified into combustible, non- combustible, compressible & incompressible wastes.The purposes of dry solid waste treatment is... 

With increasing demand for more efficient combustion processes, alternative processes like application of magnetic and electric fields for modification of combustion have offered possible solutions. In the recent years, liquid electro-spraying has been a hot topic with growing interest due to its wide applications in such area as fuel atomization in combustion systems, which has been investigated in this project. Notice that in this method the liquid fuel in the high voltage electric field between electrodes will be broken into small droplets. In this thesis diffusion combustion of two alcoholic liquid fuels of ethanol and butanol at the exit of a small-scale combustor of vertical Pyrex... 

Annular combustion chambers used in small turbine motors which incorporate centrifugal (rotary) injectors for injecting fuel, are known as Slinger combustion chambers. The Slinger injector works in such a way that fuel enters from an inner tube in motor shaft and exits with high pressure from the holes on the cylinder connected to the shaft. Because of the high centrifugal force, the fuel is sprayed with high quality after entering the combustion chamber. Type and angle of spray, fuel-air mixing type, combustion phenomena and flame stability makes this different than other annular combustion chambers. The process of combustion in the Slinger chamber of YJ402 motor is numerically simulated in... 

Moderate and Intense Low-oxygen Dilution(MILD) is the new member of combustion field. Highly preheated reactants and lowering the oxygen level in MILD combustion has some promising advantages. In this study the MILD burner, Jet-in-Hot-Coflow(JHC), is taken as the main test case. In this Research, Eddy Dissipation Concept combustion model ,introduced by Magnussen et al,is investigated in detail and governing equations are re-extracted. EDC combsution model due to moderate compuational cost in comparison with other combustion model and well prediction ability has drawn attention. Simulations on the Jet-in-Hot-Coflow(JHC) has shown the promising performance of the EDC combustion model. It seems... 

Numerical simulations of participating media need careful solution of the radiation transfer equation (RTE) along the fluid flow governing equations. Evidently, the accuracy of achieved solutions highly depends on the accuracy of radiation transfer calculations. Despite numerous efforts performed in the previous researches, the RTE calculation still faces with several challenges from both accuracy and computational cost perspectives. The main objective of this research is to present new contributions in overcoming such challenges. So, a finite-volume (FV) solver is suitably developed to solve the RTE numerically. This extended solver is then coupled with an existing FV flow solver. The... 

Heavy fuel oil (HFO) is usually consumed in large scale furnaces, e.g., those of power plants. Experience shows that its combustion produces large amount of NOx emission. In present study, a large scale heavy fuel oil fired furnace is numerically simulated to investigate different possible solutions for NOx reduction. In this regard, a computational framework is firstly designed benefiting from the researches reported previously in literature. The results of this framework are then compared with available measurements to evaluate the accuracy of current designed computational framework. Second, the influences of a number of different controlling parameters are studied carefully to improve... 

Combustion in supercritical conditions (thermodynamic) is one of the most important applications of today's systems. One of the reasons for the increased use of combustion in supercritical conditions is the need to develop high pressure combustion systems, such as liquid fuel engines, gas turbines and internal combustion engines. Combustion is a technique in which the fuel is injected into the combustion chamber with its supercritical state (Any substance at a temperature and pressure above its critical point). Fuels in the supercritical conditions exhibit new features such as low viscosity, high diffusivity and low surface tension, which lead to higher efficiency, high power generation and... 

In this study, an Experimental investigation of plasma-assisted combustion using a DBD actuator has been performed. This actuator ionizes the fluid flow by producing asymmetric and cold plasma. Ionizing the flow of fuel or air in the combustion chamber reduces the combustion time scale. The test chamber consists of two coaxial quartz tubes that fuel passes through the central tube and the air pass through the side tube. In the case of fuel (natural gas) ionization, one rod as the electrode passes through the center tube, and the second electrode closes in a loop around the inner tube. One annular electrode is closed around the central tube during air ionization, and the second electrode is... 

In this study, the performance of the Moss-Brooks semi-empirical model in estimating soot for six different diffusion flames with methane, ethylene, and kerosene fuels in laminar and turbulent regimes has been investigated. The results show that the model with the default constants in the laminar ethylene flame has relatively acceptable performance, but in the turbulent ethylene flame as well as the laminar and turbulent flames of methane, has a significant error. In this regard, inspired by past research and performing sensitivity analysis, the constants of oxidation and coagulation sub-models were reviewed and Improved. The results of soot volume fraction were evaluated for values of 0.015... 

The purpose of this study is to simulate a turbulent premixed flame with the help of the Laminar Flamelet Decomposition method. Numerical simulation is considered the main approach for studying this flame. A Bunsen-type premixed burner, which has a novel approach to making different levels of turbulence, has been used for modeling the premixed flame. To reduce the cost of numerical calculations, the Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes approach has been chosen for the CFD simulation. In this study, the Laminar Flamelet Decomposition model is the main combustion model for analyzing the turbulent premixed flame and with this method, the rate of reactions for all the reaction species will be... 

This project investigates the effect of plasma on diffusion flame. A Dielectric Barrier Discharge (DBD) plasma actuator has been used to generate plasma, which converts fuel-air non-premixed mixtures into plasma. Then, the effect of plasma on the shape and stability of the diffusion flame composed of fuel and air mixture has been evaluated. This study investigates the laminar flow regime for low calorific value fuels. For this purpose, natural gas fuel (urban methane) has been diluted with N2 and CO2 gases to reduce its calorific value. Then, the diffusion flame is formed from the fuel and air mixture in a laboratory stand. This stand consists of two coaxial tubes made of quartz, fuel flows...