Particulate and droplet diagnostics in spray combustion

Technical Report · Sun Apr 01 04:00:00 EDT 1990

OSTI ID:6905137

Semerjian, H G; Presser, C

During the past year, significant progress was made in three different areas: measurement of droplet velocity distributions, applications of the polarization ratio sizing technique, and studies of fuel property effects on spray flame structure. Droplet velocity distributions were obtained with a single-component laser velocimetry system to obtain detailed information on the transport of individual droplets. The polarization ratio technique is being developed to obtain instantaneous droplet sizes in nonburning and burning sprays. Droplet size and velocity measurements were obtained with phase/Doppler interferometry for four different fuels to ascertain the influence of physical properties of fuels on the size, number density and velocity of droplets found in spray flames.

• Research Organization: National Inst. of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD (United States). Chemical Process Metrology Div.
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AI01-86CE90213
• OSTI ID: 6905137
• Report Number(s): DOE/CE/90213-T6; ON: DE93003632
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
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CHEMICAL REACTIONS
COMBUSTION
DOCUMENT TYPES
DROPLETS
FLAMES
INTERFEROMETRY
OXIDATION
PARTICLES
PROGRESS REPORT
RESEARCH PROGRAMS
SIZE
SPRAYS
THERMOCHEMICAL PROCESSES
VELOCITY