Next generation of combustors are expected to provide significant improvement on efficiency and reduced pollutants emission. In such combustors, the challenges of local flow, pressure, chemical composition and thermal signatures as well as their interactions will require detailed investigation...

Spectroscopic examination of the emission spectra of excited species in hydrogen/air flames both without and with H2S addition and in hydrogen sulfide/oxygen flame are conducted. The baseline case of hydrogen/air flame showed one distinct global peak of OH* at 309.13 nm. However, higher...

Reaction behavior of H2S/O2 under different equivalence ratios in methane/air flames is examined. Three equivalence ratios extending from fuel-lean ([Phi] = 0.5), stoichiometric ([Phi] = 1.0), to fuel-rich (Claus condition, [Phi] = 3.0) are examined. The results revealed that...

Kinetics of woodchips char gasification has been examined. Steam and CO2 were used as the gasifying agents. Differences and similarities between kinetics of steam gasification and CO2 gasification have been discussed. Comparison was conducted in terms of gasification duration, evolution of...

Gasification of polyethylene (PE) and woodchips (WC) mixtures have been investigated in a semi-batch reactor, using high temperature steam as the gasifying agent. The reactor temperature was maintained at 900 °C. The ratio of PE-WC was varied from 0% to 100% in 20% intervals....

Combustion in small scale devices poses significant challenges due to the quenching of reactions from wall heat losses as well as the significantly reduced time available for mixing and combustion. In the case of liquid fuels there are additional challenges related to atomization, vaporization...

The dynamics of premixed propane-air flame in a meso-scale ceramic combustor has been examined here. The flame characteristics in the combustor were examined by measuring the acoustic emissions and preheat temperatures together with high-speed cinematography. For the small-scale combustor, the...

Evolutionary behavior of syngas characteristics evolved during the gasification of cardboard has been examined using a batch reactor with steam as a gasifying agent. Evolutionary behavior of syngas chemical composition, mole fractions of hydrogen, CO and CH4, as well as H2/CO ratio, LHV (kJ/m3),...

Characteristics of syngas from the pyrolysis and gasification of food waste has been investigated. Characteristic differences in syngas properties and overall yields from pyrolysis and gasification were determined at two distinct high temperatures of 800 and 900 °C. Pyrolysis and...

This study characterizes the chemical kinetics for the reduction and elimination of char particles using air and pure oxygen as the oxidants. Commercial carbon black was used as char for the experimental studies reported here. Different oxidant injection flow rates have been examined at various...