Experimental study on lean blowout limits of turbulent premixed hydrogen/ammonia/air mixtures

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  • Andreas Goldmann
  • Friedrich Dinkelacker

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Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCombustion, Fuels, and Emissions
PublisherAmerican Society of Mechanical Engineers(ASME)
Number of pages10
ISBN (electronic)9780791884942
Publication statusPublished - 16 Sept 2021
EventASME Turbo Expo 2021: Turbomachinery Technical Conference and Exposition, GT 2021 - Virtual, Online
Duration: 7 Jun 202111 Jun 2021

Abstract

As the demand for greenhouse gas neutral transportation and power generation solutions is growing, alternative carbonfree fuel such as hydrogen (H2) and ammonia (NH3) are gaining more attention. Mixtures of both fuels allow the adjustment of combustion properties. With future fuels also the vision of very clean combustion can be taken into the focus, being for instance based on lean premixed and for liquid fuels prevaporized combustion for gas turbines. For the utilization of such concepts, however, flame stability is essential. In this study the upper stability limits, i.e. lean blowout of turbulent hydrogen/ammonia/air flames, is experimentally investigated in a generic non-swirl premixed burner at atmospheric conditions. Special focus is laid on a measurement setup with fully automatized measurement procedure, to reach the stability limits, as these limits tend to depend for instance on the approach speed towards the limit. The ammonia content was varied from 0 vol% to 50 vol% in 10 vol% steps with the rest being hydrogen, for a broad range of fuel-air-equivalence ratios. The lean blowout limit is increasing almost linearly with increasing fuel-air-equivalence ratios, whereas with increasing ammonia content the limit is decreasing. Furthermore, a model for the lean blowout limits were derived, which is able to predict the acquired experimental data with high accuracy.

Keywords

    Ammonia, Hydrogen, Lean blowout, Modeling

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Experimental study on lean blowout limits of turbulent premixed hydrogen/ammonia/air mixtures. / Goldmann, Andreas; Dinkelacker, Friedrich.
Combustion, Fuels, and Emissions. American Society of Mechanical Engineers(ASME), 2021. V03AT04A020.

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Goldmann, A & Dinkelacker, F 2021, Experimental study on lean blowout limits of turbulent premixed hydrogen/ammonia/air mixtures. in Combustion, Fuels, and Emissions., V03AT04A020, American Society of Mechanical Engineers(ASME), ASME Turbo Expo 2021, Virtual, Online, 7 Jun 2021. https://doi.org/10.1115/gt2021-58830
Goldmann, A., & Dinkelacker, F. (2021). Experimental study on lean blowout limits of turbulent premixed hydrogen/ammonia/air mixtures. In Combustion, Fuels, and Emissions Article V03AT04A020 American Society of Mechanical Engineers(ASME). https://doi.org/10.1115/gt2021-58830
Goldmann A, Dinkelacker F. Experimental study on lean blowout limits of turbulent premixed hydrogen/ammonia/air mixtures. In Combustion, Fuels, and Emissions. American Society of Mechanical Engineers(ASME). 2021. V03AT04A020 doi: 10.1115/gt2021-58830
Goldmann, Andreas ; Dinkelacker, Friedrich. / Experimental study on lean blowout limits of turbulent premixed hydrogen/ammonia/air mixtures. Combustion, Fuels, and Emissions. American Society of Mechanical Engineers(ASME), 2021.
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