Fundamental Characteristics of Gas Phase Reactions after Catalytic Combustion of Fuel Spray.

Abstract

Fundamental characteristics of the catalytic combustion of vaporized kerosene spray were studied experimentally. Palladium catalyst supported on the cordierite honeycomb monolith was used. Inlet temperature was elevated up to 700 K to evaporate the kerosene spray. Premixed gas of air and kerosene vapor was introduced into the catalyst. The catalytic combustion and gas phase reaction after catalyst were observed in this combustion system. The lean limit of the catalytic combustion was not affected by the space velocity and equivalence ratio of the mixture, but it was greatly affected by the inlet temperature. The parabolic shape blue flame that was supported on the catalyst was formed when the supplied mixture was not completely burned in the monolith. To clarify a reaction process in an combustive gas between the monolith and the blue flame, CO, HC(C1∼C7) and NO were analyzed. When the blue flame was observed after the catalyst, the HC and CO were formed from the unburned composition of fuel and they were burned as the blue flame. The NO emission level of the catalytic combustion was very low compared with the gas phase reaction of lean mixture.