Stationary Flames

Similar behavior was observed for LNG clouds during both continuous and instantaneous tests, but average flame speeds were lower the maximum speed observed in any of the tests was 10 m/s. Following premixed combustion, the flame burned through the fuel-rich portion of the cloud. This stage of combustion was more evident for continuous spills, where the rate of flame propagation, particularly for LNG spills, was very low. In one of the continuous LNG tests, a wind speed of only 4.5 m/s was sufficient to hold the flame stationary at a point some 65 m from the spill point for almost 1 minute the spill rate was then reduced. 

Environmental Analysis One of the most important environmental applications of gas chromatography is for the analysis of numerous organic pollutants in air, water, and wastewater. The analysis of volatile organics in drinking water, for example, is accomplished by a purge and trap, followed by their separation on a capillary column with a nonpolar stationary phase. A flame ionization, electron capture, or... 

Although aimed at the introductory class, this simple experiment provides a nice demonstration of the use of GG for a qualitative analysis. Students obtain chromatograms for several possible accelerants using headspace sampling and then analyze the headspace over a sealed sample of charred wood to determine the accelerant used in burning the wood. Separations are carried out using a wide-bore capillary column with a stationary phase of methyl 50% phenyl silicone and a flame ionization detector. 

Methanol, a clean burning fuel relative to conventional industrial fuels other than natural gas, can be used advantageously in stationary turbines and boilers because of its low flame luminosity and combustion temperature. Low NO emissions and virtually no sulfur or particulate emissions have been observed (83). Methanol is also considered for dual fuel (methanol plus oil or natural gas) combustion power boilers (84) as well as to fuel gas turbines in combined methanol / electric power production plants using coal gasification (85) (see Power generation). 

Flame plating (D-gun) employs oxygen and fuel gas. In this method, developed by the Union Carbide Corporation, the gas mixture is detonated by an electric spark at four detonations per second. The powders, mixed with the gas, are fed under control into a chamber from which they are ejected when detonation occurs. The molten, 14—16-pm particles are sprayed at a velocity of 732 m/s at distances of 5.1—10.2 cm from the surface. The substrate is moved past the stationary gun. 

SPME has been utilized for deterrnination of pollutants in aqueous solution by the adsorption of analyte onto stationary-phase coated fused-siUca fibers, followed by thermal desorption in the injection system of a capillary gas chromatograph (34). EuU automation can be achieved using an autosampler. Eiber coated with 7- and 100-p.m film thickness and a nitrogen—phosphoms flame thermionic detector were used to evaluate the adsorption and desorption of four j -triazines. The gc peaks resulting from desorption of fibers were shown to be comparable to those obtained using manual injection. 

The expander turbine is designed to minimize the erosive effect of the catalyst particles stiU remaining in the flue gas. The design ensures a uniform distribution of the catalyst particles around the 360° aimulus of the flow path, optimizes the gas flow through both the stationary and rotary blades, and uses modem plasma and flame-spray coatings of the rotor and starter blades for further erosion protection (67). 

The possibihty of a stationary flame residing on the arrester element surface should be evaluated, and so should the need for additional safeguards, should such an event occur (see Endurance Burn section). 

Combustion analysis This ineludes the use of pyrometers to deteet metal temperatures of both stationary and rotating eomponents sueh as turbine blades. The use of dynamie pressure transdueers to deteet flame instabilities in the eombustor espeeially in the new dry low NO applieations. 

In order to ensure the reliability of a flame arrester (ability to quench a propagating flame or withstand a stationary flame) a number of factors must be taken into consideration as follows ... 

The flame-surface area dependent on time is approximated by a plane cross-section moving at burning speed through the stationary cloud. 

The existence of tribrachial structure at the base of lifted flame implies that the stabilization of liftoff flames is controlled by the characteristics of tribrachial edge flames. The coexistence of three different types of flames dictates that the edge is located along the stoichiometric contour [52] and the premixed wings have the propagation characteristics, whose speed should balance with the local flow velocity for the edge to be stationary. In the first approximation, the propagation speed was assumed to be constant [10]. 

A stationary lifted flame will be stabilized at (xV )/ where Yp=yps, and u = S. The liftoff height Hl=x and the limitation on jet velocity can be derived from Equation 4.3.3 as follows ... 

Instantaneous flame images. Static. Stationary shapes, a-e Images taken at equi-spaced instants during a cycle of excitation. CF, conical flame MF, "M"-shaped flame VF, "V"-shaped flame CSCF, collection of small conical flames. 

For a while till now, our research group has been involved in studies of the properties of limit flames. Most of the results reported in this chapter were obtained for propane flames, under normal atmospheric conditions, in 300 mm long channels, with a square cross-section. The experimental procedure was described previously [25]. A flame propagating through a stationary mixture in a quenching tube or quenching channel can be characterized by the parameters defined in Figure 6.1.1. 

K.I. Schchelkin and Ya.K. Troshin, Non stationary phenomena in the gaseous detonation front. Combust. Flame, 7, 143-151, 1963. 

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