Abstract
Swirl burners are widely used in numerous practical applications since they are characterized by low pollutant emission and a wide operating range. Besides reliable operation, a burner must fulfill noise emission regulations, which is often a sound pressure level in dB(A) when people are affected. Therefore, the present paper evaluates the overall sound pressure level (OASPL) variation of a 15-kW liquid-fueled turbulent atmospheric swirl burner at various setups. Firstly, the combustion air flow rate was adjusted, which induced a swirl number modification due to the fixed swirl vanes. Secondly, the atomizing pressure of the plain-jet airblast atomizer was modified, which also affected the swirl number. High atomizing air jets notably increased combustion noise by intensifying the shear layer. Thirdly, a geometrical modification was performed; 0°–60° half cone angle quarls in 15° steps were installed on the lip of the baseline burner for extended flame stability. By filtering the OASPL to the V-shaped flames, a linearly decreasing trend was observed as a function of swirl number. Their derivative also has a linearly decreasing characteristic as a function of the atomizing pressure.
Highlights
Premixed swirl combustion in V-shaped mode is widely used in steady-operating industrial combustion chambers to fulfill emission standards [1,2]
The present paper investigates the overall sound pressure level (OASPL) of a lean premixed swirl burner equipped with an airblast atomizer
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Summary
Premixed swirl combustion in V-shaped mode is widely used in steady-operating industrial combustion chambers to fulfill emission standards [1,2]. Speth and Ghoniem [34] discussed the OASPL of syngas combustion in the composition range of 20%–80% by CO under lean conditions to evaluate the operation modes of their swirl-stabilized burner. It is known that fuel-rich mixtures are characterized by increased noise compared to lean combustion, and the OASPL peak is located near the stoichiometric condition [36]. Since atomization is governed by atomizing air pressure, it allows a semi-flexible operation as it can be adjusted almost freely to provide the desired spray quality with low dependence on the fuel flow rate. This was the reason why airblast atomizers were developed [42]. The OASPL trends were evaluated by using a wide parameter matrix, focusing principally on V-shaped flames
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