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EPSRC Reference: GR/L87712/01
Title: EMISSION CONTROL OF TWO-PHASE FLOW FLAMES
Principal Investigator: Hardalupas, Professor Y
Other Investigators:
Whitelaw, Dr J
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Project Partners:
Hamworthy Engineering Ltd
Department: Mechanical Engineering
Organisation: Imperial College London
Scheme: Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts: 01 September 1997 Ends: 28 February 2001 Value (£): 40,408
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:
Combustion
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:
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The proposed research will determine the extent to which heat release distribution, efficiency of combustion , emmisions and extinction can be controlled by the spatial, temporal and size distributions of droplets of liquid fuel and particles of solid fuel at the entrance to a burner with coaxial streams of swirling air, gas and discrete fuels and quarl diffuser. The measurements will provide new understanding of the influence of boundary conditions of discrete fuel injection on discrete fuel dispersion and local flame characteristics in industrial burners and thereby guide burner arrangements towards improved emissions, heat release and extinction. The identifies improved burner arrangement, operated with heavy oil fuel, Orimulsions and pulverised coal, will determine preferred discrete fuel boundary conditions for each type of fuel and will allow specific recommendations for more general burner design practice. A subsidiary outcome of the reserach will be the development of optical instrumentation for point measurements of degree of premixedness and gas equivalence ratio and instantaneous planar imaging of droplet concentration. The results will also facilitate the improvement and testing of calculation methods and particularly those which use Lagrangian stochastic models for particle dispersion.
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