الفهرس 
Swirl Burners
Experimental Test Rig and Measuring TechniquesOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
The current experimental work presents a comparative study on some factors influencing the combustion characteristics of LPG diffusion flame issuing from double concentric elliptic swirl burners using a radial exit multi-hole fuel nozzle. The factors under investigation were; the variation of the ellipse aspect ratio, the variation of the inner and outer swirl angles and the variation of the swirling mode (co vs counter swirl).
All experiments were conducted at the same air to fuel ratio corresponding to excess air 20%. The performance assessment of the burners under investigation was based on the analysis of the local flame temperature values, pollutant emissions concentrations of CO, UHC and NOx in addition to flame length measurements. The quantification of these parameters was coupled with frontal photos of the confined flame and the plotted flame temperature contours in order to attain a more comprehensive analysis. Investigating the effect of the variation of the burner aspect ratio, the performance of three elliptic swirlers having aspect ratios of 1.25,1.4 and 1.5 was compared to a circular baseline swirler, all the swirlers had equal inner swirl angle of 30̊ and outer swirl angle of 45̊ with a co swirling mode. It was found that there was a progressive enhancement in the burner performance with the increase of the aspect ratio. A decrease in values of CO, NOx and UHC was recorded with the increase of the aspect ratio, this decrease was most significant for the 1.5 aspect ratio swirler recording a decrease of 47%,58% and 45% in the average values of CO,NOx and UHC respectively. The flame length became increasingly shortened with the increase of the aspect ratio, the 1.5 aspect ratio swirler recoded the shortest flame length with a reduction of 44% in the flame length. Furthermore, investigating the plotted flame temperature contours along the major and minor axes directions of the elliptic swirlers, it was found that there was a difference in the shape of the contours along both directions where the contours had a narrower silhouette along the minor axis and higher peak flame temperature value. For the second comparative study two elliptic swirlers with an aspect ratio of 1.4 were compared one having an inner swirl angle of 45̊ and outer swirl angle 30̊, the second swirler had an inner swirl angle of 30̊ and an outer angle of 45̊. The 45(inner)-30(outer) swirler recorded lower values of pollutant emissions as a consequence of higher turbulence levels and enhanced mixing associated with the stronger inner swirl, a reduction of 14%,13.5% and 27% in the average values of CO,NOx and UHC was exhibited by the 45(inner)-30(outer) swirler. In addition to that, the flame of the 45(inner)-30(outer) swirler had a shorter length with a decrease in length of 15%. Finally investigating the effect of varying the swirling mode, two swirlers were compared each having an inner swirl angle of 30̊, an outer swirl angle of 45̊ and an aspect ratio of 1.4. The co swirl recorded lower values of pollutant emissions with a reduction in the values of CO,NOx and UHC by 15%,12% and 17.5% respectively. in addition, the flame of the co swirling scheme was shorter by 10%. The previous results establish the superiority of the performance of the co swirl over that of the counter swirl mode. Finally, it is worth mentioning that the factors that lead to an enhanced burner performance (for the investigated parameters range) are; Co swirling scheme, an increase in the inner swirl strength and an increase in the swirler aspect ratio.