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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Fuels
Sec. Synfuels
Volume 2 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/ffuel.2024.1401691
This article is part of the Research Topic Women in Fuel Science and Technology View all 4 articles

A quantitative study of OH and NO concentration of a premixed laminar kerosene flame using a flat-flame burner at atmospheric pressure

Provisionally accepted
Si Shi Si Shi Kevin Hughes Kevin Hughes *Mohamed Pourkashanian Mohamed Pourkashanian
  • The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

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    In the context of global warming and the increasing demands for the application of sustainable fuels, measurements of a variety of experimental targets under a wide range of conditions are crucial to improving the fundamental understanding of real jet fuels and developing quality kinetic mechanisms for large hydrocarbons. Planar laser-induced fluorescence (PLIF) is an effective approach to investigate concentrations of important species of a given flame while quantifying the fluorescence image remains a great challenge with significant uncertainties. This investigation aims to improve the fundamental understanding of the oxidation of kerosene-based mixtures at two equivalence ratio conditions. Two gas fuels are utilized as the reference for the quantitative studies. For each flame condition, relative OH and NO quantities and temperature profiles were measured by applying the PLIF and coated fine wire type R Pt/Pt-Rh thermocouples, respectively. The converted OH and NO results were subsequently compared with the simulation by using ANSYS Chemkin Pro.

    Keywords: combustion, Premixed flames, Kerosene, NH3/CH4/air, Nitric Oxide, PLIF

    Received: 15 Mar 2024; Accepted: 06 Nov 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Shi, Hughes and Pourkashanian. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Kevin Hughes, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

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