Basic research on radiant burners. Annual report, February 1987-January 1988
During the first year of the project, significant progress was made in flame attachment and radiant-output studies of radiant surface burners. Predictions of surface radiation and flame liftoff were made with a surface-modified flame-chemistry computer model. These predictions agree remarkably well with experimentally measured radiation and flame liftoff for a ceramic fiber burner under a wide range of operating conditions. Experimental data for two other types of radiant burners were also compared with the computer-model predictions. A doubling of radiant output at low excess-air levels with similar flame-liftoff stability limits was demonstrated on a platinum-coated ceramic-fiber burner compared with a conventional ceramic-fiber burner. Flashback will be studied computationally and experimentally in the second year of the project. Radiant output will be the focus of the third year.
- Research Organization:
- Alzeta Corp., Santa Clara, CA (USA)
- OSTI ID:
- 6964149
- Report Number(s):
- PB-88-220058/XAB; ALZETA-88-727-141
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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