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Premixed hydrogen-air flames interacting with a hydrogen porous wall

Abstract

A laminar one-dimensional hydrogen-air flame travelling and quenching towards a
chemically inert permeable wall (PW) is studied. Hydrogen flows through the wall into the
premixed H2-air. The S3D numerical code with detailed chemistry is used. PW results are
compared against results of an impermeable wall (IW), including effects of varying wall
mass flux, stoichiometry, inert dilution and unburned-gas and wall temperatures. The
maximum reaction heat release rate occurs at the wall in all cases. For rich and stoichiometric mixtures, PW with fuel influx gave a moderate reduction of the quenching (i.e.
maximum) wall heat flux compared to IW, whereas for a lean mixture, the increase is
considerable. Effects of the fuel influx on the importance of individual elementary reactions and radicals and intermediate species are investigated. The lean PW cases have
similarities to much richer IW cases. Both a lower wall temperature and dilution reduce the
burned-mixture temperature and, consequently, the wall heat flux.
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Category

Academic article

Client

  • Sigma2 / NN9400K
  • Research Council of Norway (RCN) / 193816
  • Sigma2 / NS9121K
  • Sigma2 / NN9121K

Language

English

Author(s)

  • Prashant Siddlinggayya Salimath
  • Ivar Ståle Ertesvåg
  • Andrea Gruber

Affiliation

  • Norwegian University of Science and Technology
  • SINTEF Energy Research / Termisk energi

Year

2018

Published in

International Journal of Hydrogen Energy

ISSN

0360-3199

Publisher

Elsevier

Volume

43

Issue

7

Page(s)

3822 - 3836

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