TY - JOUR
T1 - Near-limit laminar burning velocities of microgravity premixed hydrogen flames with chemically-passive fire suppressants
AU - Qiao, Li
AU - Gu, Yongxian
AU - Dahm, Werner J.A.
AU - Oran, Elaine S.
AU - Faeth, Gerard M.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by NASA Grant No. NNC04GA08G, with Dr. F. Takahashi of NASA Glenn Research Center serving as program manager.
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - Effects of chemically-passive fire suppressants on laminar premixed hydrogen flames were investigated by combined use of microgravity experiments and computations. The experiments used a short-drop free-fall laboratory facility that provides at least 450 ms of 10-2 g. Near-limit laminar burning velocities were measured for outwardly propagating spherical stoichiometric hydrogen-air flames with varying concentrations of He, Ar, N 2, and CO2 as suppressants. Burning velocities were also computed using the steady, one-dimensional laminar premixed flame code PREMIX. Both measured and computed results showed the suppressants to increase in effectiveness in the order He, Ar, N2, to CO2. The differences in effectiveness are shown to result from increased quenching of reactions by the increased specific heat due to the suppressant and from changes in the transport rates near the flame. The concentration needed for each suppressant to prevent flame propagation was also determined. Far from this flammability limit, agreement between measured and computed laminar burning velocities was good, but for near-limit flames the computed velocities were significantly lower than measured values. These near-limit differences may be due to third-body recombination rates for H + O2 + M = HO2 + M reactions, and in particular to the third-body chaperon efficacy of various species M.
AB - Effects of chemically-passive fire suppressants on laminar premixed hydrogen flames were investigated by combined use of microgravity experiments and computations. The experiments used a short-drop free-fall laboratory facility that provides at least 450 ms of 10-2 g. Near-limit laminar burning velocities were measured for outwardly propagating spherical stoichiometric hydrogen-air flames with varying concentrations of He, Ar, N 2, and CO2 as suppressants. Burning velocities were also computed using the steady, one-dimensional laminar premixed flame code PREMIX. Both measured and computed results showed the suppressants to increase in effectiveness in the order He, Ar, N2, to CO2. The differences in effectiveness are shown to result from increased quenching of reactions by the increased specific heat due to the suppressant and from changes in the transport rates near the flame. The concentration needed for each suppressant to prevent flame propagation was also determined. Far from this flammability limit, agreement between measured and computed laminar burning velocities was good, but for near-limit flames the computed velocities were significantly lower than measured values. These near-limit differences may be due to third-body recombination rates for H + O2 + M = HO2 + M reactions, and in particular to the third-body chaperon efficacy of various species M.
KW - Chemically passive suppressants
KW - Extinction
KW - Hydrogen flames
KW - Microgravity
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U2 - 10.1016/j.proci.2006.07.012
DO - 10.1016/j.proci.2006.07.012
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:34548507524
SN - 1540-7489
VL - 31 II
SP - 2701
EP - 2709
JO - Proceedings of the Combustion Institute
JF - Proceedings of the Combustion Institute
T2 - 31st International Symposium on Combustion
Y2 - 5 August 2006 through 11 August 2006
ER -