Effect of hydrogen ratio on turbulent flame structure of oxyfuel syngas at high pressure up to 1.0 MPa

Abstract

The CO/H2/CO2/O2, CO/H2/CO2/air turbulent premixed flames as the model of syngas oxyfuel and syngas/air combustion were studied experimentally and compared to that of CH4/air mixtures at high pressures up to 1.0 MPa. Hydrogen ratio in syngas was set to be 35%, 50% and 65% in volumetric fraction. Four perforated plates are used to generate wide range of turbulence intensity and scales. The instantaneous flame structure was measured with OH-PLIF technique and then statistic flame structure parameters and turbulent burning velocity were derived to interpret the multi scale turbulence-flame interaction. Results show that the flame structure of syngas is wrinkled and convex cusps to the unburned mixtures are sharper and deeper comparing to that of CH4 flames. Pressure has a dominating effect on flame wrinkling other than mixtures composition at high pressure of 1.0 MPa. The flame surface density, Σ of syngas is larger than that of CH4. The Σ of syngas flames is almost independent on pressure and hydrogen ratio especially when hydrogen ratio is over 50% which is a significant feature of syngas combustion. Larger flame surface density for syngas flames mainly comes from the finer structure with smaller wrinkles which is the result of more intensive flame intrinsic instability. The ST/SL of syngas is larger than CH4 and it slightly increases with the pressure rise. The ST/SL of syngas oxyfuel is similar to that of syngas/air flames in the present study. The ST/SL increases with the increase of hydrogen ratio and keeps almost constant when hydrogen ratio is over 50%.