Experimental Investigation of the Self-Ignition and Jet Flame of Hydrogen Jets Released under Different Conditions

Abstract

Hydrogen is a promising clean energy source and an important chemical raw material. To use hydrogen energy more safely, a high-pressure hydrogen-release platform for hydrogen self-ignition and for generating hydrogen jet flames under different experimental conditions was investigated in this study. The associated experimental analysis was based on the theory of high-pressure hydrogen tube diffusion. We found that the higher the initial release pressure, the greater the intensity of the leading shock. When the initial release pressure was high and the leading shock intensity was strong, hydrogen was more likely to ignite spontaneously inside the tube. The higher the initial release pressure, the faster the average propagation speed of the shock in the same pipe length. The time during which a stable leading shock was formed inside the tube may be related to the initial release pressure. It was found that flame combustion intensified after the passage of air through a Mach disk, and a stable flame was formed more easily at the jet boundary layer away from the orifice axis. The maximum speed of the flame tip and the flame decay speed were very high. Moreover, the flame length and the diameter of the ball flame first increased and then decreased.