Journal article
Detailed multi-dimensional study of pollutant formation in a methane diffusion flame
RFD Monaghan, R Tahir, A Cuoci, G Bourque, M Füri, RL Gordon, T Faravelli, A Frassoldati, HJ Curran
Energy and Fuels | Published : 2012
DOI: 10.1021/ef201853k
Abstract
This paper describes a method to produce chemical reactor networks (CRNs) consisting of large numbers of perfectly stirred reactors (PSRs) from computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations to predict pollutant emissions from combustion systems accurately, flexibly, and efficiently using detailed kinetic schemes and the kinetic post-processor (KPP) developed at Politecnico di Milano. Benefits of the method described here include its applicability to a wide range of combustion systems, its ability to predict emissions of a variety of pollutant species, and its speed. CFD and CFD-CRN simulation results of the Sandia D piloted methane-air diffusion round-jet flame are successfully validated ag..
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Awarded by European Union (EU), EMICOPTER
Funding Acknowledgements
The authors are grateful to the Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology (IRCSET) and Rolls-Royce Canada for co-funding this work with an Enterprise Partnership Scheme Postdoctoral Fellowship Award. Work at Polimi was partially supported by the European Union (EU) as part of the EMICOPTER Project (CS-GA-2009-251798). The authors also wish to thank Wayne Metcalfe at C<SUP>3</SUP> for kinetic mechanism validation, Graham Goldin at ANSYS Inc. for providing CFD mesh and boundary conditions, and Sandeep Sharma at Rolls-Royce Canada for CFD assistance and support.