Auto-ignition in a gas turbine burner at elevated temperature

American Society of Mechanical Engineers, International Gas Turbine Institute, Turbo Expo (Publication) IGTI

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 195-205

  Brandt, Martin ^a   Polifke, Wolfgang ^a   Ivancic, Blazenko ^b   Flohr, Peter ^b   Paikert, Bettina ^b  

^a Lehrst für Thermodyn Tech   (Germany)

^b ALSTOM SWITZERLAND LTD   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAIN BRANCHING REACTIONS; PLUG FLOW REACTORS (PFR);

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GAS TURBINES; HYDROCARBONS; IGNITION; MIXTURES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION; TURBULENCE;

FUEL BURNERS;

EID: 0346947097     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/GT2003-38224     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (19)

1. Joos, F., Brunner, P., Schulte-Werning, B., Syed, K. Development of the sequential combustion system for the ABB GT 24/GT26 gas turbine family, ASME Paper 1996-GT-315, 1996.
2. Meier, Ph., Syed, K. Numerical analysis of the autoignition process in the SEV burner - a parametric investigation, Internal Paper, ALSTOM, Baden (CH), September 1997.
3. Turns, S. R. An introduction to combustion: concepts and applications, 2nd Edition, McGraw-Hill, 2000.
4. Fotache, C. G., Kreutz, T. G., Law, C. K. Ignition of conterflowing methane versus heated air under reduced and elevated pressures. Combustion and Flame, 108:442-470, 1997.
5. Li, S. C., Williams F. A. Reaction mechanisms for methane ignition, ASME Paper 2000-GT-145, 2000.
6. Sung, C. J., Law, C. K., Chen, J.-Y. An augmented reduced mechanism for the methane oxidation with comprehensive global parametric validation. 27th Sym. on Combustion, The Combustion Institute, 295-304, 1998
7. Lutz, A. E., Kee, R. J., Miller, J. A. SENKIN: A FORTRAN program for predicting homogeneous gas phase chemical kineticswith sensitivity analysis, SANDIA Report SAND87-8248.
8. Hesselt, M. Simulation der Zündung und Verbrennung in einem Nutzfahrzeug-Dieselmotor, Ph.D. Thesis, RWTH Aachen, 1998.
9. Spadaccini, L. J., Colket, M. B. Ignition delay characteristics of methane fuels. Prog. in Energy and Combustion Sci., 20:431-460, 1994.
10. Weihong, Y., Blasiak, W. Numerical study of fuel temperature influence on single gas jet combustion in highly preheated and oxygen deficient air, apapco-ONLINE, http://www.adapco-online.com
11. Orsino, S., Weber, R., Bollettini, U. Numerical simulation of combustion of natural gas with high-temperature air. Combustion Science and Techn., 170:1-34, 2001.
12. Mastorakos, E., Pires da Cruz, A., Baritaud, T. A., Poinsot, T. J. A model for the effects of mixing on the autoignition of turbulent flows. Combustion Science and Techn., 125:243-282, 1997.
13. Smith, G. P. et al. GRI-Mech 3.0, http://www.me.berkeley.edu/gri.mech, 1999
14. Goy, C. J., Moran, A. J., Thomas, G. O. Autoignition characteristics of gaseous fuels at representative gas turbine conditions, ASME Paper 2001-GT-0051, 2001.
15. Pohl, M., Syed, K. Numerical investigations of 3-stream turbulent mixing, Internal paper, ALSTOM, Baden (CH), January 1997.
16. Girimaji, S. S. Assumed β-PDF model for turbulent mixing: Validation and extension to multiple scalar mixing. Combustion Sci. and Tech., 78:177-196, 1991.
17. Pope, S. B. Transport equations for the joint probability density function of velocity and scalars in turbulent flow. Physics of Fluids, 24(4):575-588, 1981.
18. Brandt, M., Polifke, W. Tabulation of mean reaction rates from multivariate, correlated distributions with a monte carlo method. Proc. of the 9th Int. Conference on Numerical Combustion, 303-304, 2002.
19. Schmitz, N., Monte-Carlo Methoden: 1. Erzeugen und Testen von Zufallszahlen, 1976.