Experimental Study on the Time Evolutions of Methane Reburning and Combustion Process

Abstract

An electrical heated test rig with nonintrusive multipoint sampling analysis system was built up. On such a test rig, the experiments of time evolution of methane reburning and combustion process have been carried out. In the methane reburning process, the concentrations of O2, CH4, C2H4, C2H6, and NO decrease during 0.2–1.0 s, while the concentrations of C2H2, CO, H2, and HCN increase within the same time. Through comparison of the time evolutions of methane reburning and combustion process, the changing trends of CH4, C2H2, C2H4, C2H6, H2, O2, and CO are similar, and the concentrations of CH4, C2H4, and C2H6 in the methane reburning process are slightly higher than these in the methane combustion process, while the concentration of C2H2 in the methane reburning process is obviously lower than that in the methane combustion process. The experimental results suggest that C2H2 is the key hydrocarbon in the methane reburnin process, and the NO reduction by methane as the reburning fuel mainly proceeds via t...