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Title: Flame stabilizer for stagnation flow reactor

Patent ·
OSTI ID:20013961

A method is described for stabilizing a strained flame in a stagnation flow reactor. By causing a highly strained flame to be divided into a large number of equal size segments it is possible to stabilize a highly strained flame that is on the verge of extinction, thereby providing for higher film growth rates. The flame stabilizer is an annular ring mounted coaxially and coplanar with the substrate upon which the film is growing and having a number of vertical pillars mounted on the top surface, thereby increasing the number of azimuthal nodes into which the flame is divided and preserving an axisymmetric structure necessary for stability.

Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
AC04-94AL85000
OSTI ID:
20013961
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: 14 Sep 1999
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English