Large eddy simulation of hydrogen piloted CH4/air premixed combustion with CO2 dilution

Hasti, Veeraraghava Raju; Lucht, Robert P.; Gore, Jay P.

doi:10.1016/j.joei.2019.10.004

Title: Large eddy simulation of hydrogen piloted CH₄/air premixed combustion with CO₂ dilution

Journal Article · Mon Oct 21 00:00:00 EDT 2019 · Journal of the Energy Institute

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joei.2019.10.004· OSTI ID:1799757

Hasti, Veeraraghava Raju ^[1]; Lucht, Robert P. ^[1]; Gore, Jay P. ^[1]

Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States)

Large eddy simulation (LES) of constant adiabatic temperature, hydrogen-piloted, turbulent lean premixed methane/air jet flames with varying amounts of CO₂ addition are reported. Constant adiabatic temperature is achieved by increasing the fuel flow rate slightly to account for the higher specific heat of CO₂ compared to N₂. Such flames are relevant to low NOx gas turbines with high hydrogen content fuels and Exhaust Gas Recirculation (EGR). A newly designed burner called Piloted Axisymmetric Reactor Assisted Turbulent (PARAT) flame burner was utilized. The operating conditions in the experiment were selected to highlight the kinetic effects of CO₂ addition by matching the Reynolds numbers, Lewis numbers and adiabatic flame temperatures. The LES simulations utilize a finite rate chemistry solver with DRM19 combustion mechanism with adaptive zoning and a dynamic structure turbulence model. A five-level adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) improves the velocity and temperature gradient resolution. The LES predicts the experimentally observed increase in flame length with CO₂ levels caused by a decrease in the turbulent flame speed. The computational results also capture the experimentally observed departure from the thin flame limit and a collapse of the root mean square (RMS) versus mean temperature profiles for the three levels of CO₂. The flame structure analysis illustrated super-equilibrium CO concentrations because of non-equilibrium chemistry effects caused by the external addition of CO₂.

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Research Organization:: Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Fossil Energy (FE)

Grant/Contract Number:: FE0011822; FG02-03ER15391

OSTI ID:: 1799757

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1615051

Journal Information:: Journal of the Energy Institute, Vol. 93, Issue 3; ISSN 1743-9671

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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