Lean flammability limits for stable performance with a porous burner

Applied Energy

Volumn 86, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2635-2643

  Akbari, M H ^a   Riahi, P ^a   Roohi, R ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Blow out; Flash back; Lower flammability limit; Matrix porosity; Porous burner; Turn down ratio

Indexed keywords

BLOWOUTS; ONE DIMENSIONAL; POROSITY; POROUS MATERIALS;

CONTROLLING PARAMETERS; FLASH-BACK; LAMINAR PREMIXED FLAMES; LEAN FLAMMABILITY LIMITS; LOWER FLAMMABILITY LIMITS; MATRIX POROSITY; POROUS BURNERS; VARIATION OF POROSITIES;

FLAMMABILITY;

MATRIX; METHANE; MODEL VALIDATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POROSITY; POROUS MEDIUM;

EID: 68849104015     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2009.04.019     Document Type: Article

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