Burner development and operability issues associated with steady flowing syngas fired combustors

Combustion Science and Technology

Volumn 180, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1169-1192

  Lieuwen, Tim ^a   McDonell, Vince ^b   Santavicca, Domenic ^c   Sattelmayer, Thomas ^d  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autoignition; Blowoff; Combustion; Flashback; Instability

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; AIR POLLUTION; BLOWOUTS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COMBUSTION; COMBUSTORS; CRACK PROPAGATION; DYNAMICS; FLAME RESISTANCE; FLAME SPRAYING; FLOW INTERACTIONS; FUELS; HEALTH; HYDROGEN; IGNITION; LANDFORMS; MECHANISMS; PRESSURE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SMOKE; SPEECH RECOGNITION; STEADY FLOW; STRUCTURE (COMPOSITION); SUBSIDENCE; THEOREM PROVING; THERMOCHEMISTRY; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

(+ MOD 2N) OPERATION; (001) PARAMETER; (I ,J) CONDITIONS; (P ,P ,T) MEASUREMENTS; (PL) PROPERTIES; AUTO-IGNITION; COMBUSTION INSTABILITIES; COMBUSTION SYSTEMS; CORE FLOW; CRITICAL ISSUES; DYNAMIC STABILITY; EMISSIONS (ASPHALT); FLAME PROPAGATION; FLAME SPEED; FLAME STABILIZATION; FUEL AIR RATIO (FAR); FUEL COMPOSITIONS; FUEL PARAMETER; HEAT RELEASES; HIGH PRESSURE (HP); IGNITION DELAY TIME; KINETIC (POLYM.); KINETIC MECHANISMS; LOW TEMPERATURE (LTR); PARAMETER SPACES; PREMIXED; RESIDENCE TIMES; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF; TURBULENT FLAMES; VORTEX BREAKDOWN (VBD);

FLAMMABILITY;

EID: 46249097928     PISSN: 00102202     EISSN: 1563521X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00102200801963375     Document Type: Article

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