Thursday, May 30, 2013

The Effect of Radiation on Oxy-Fuel Combustion Characteristics in Microchannels

CATEGORY: MICROCHANNELS
Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 302) Pages 49-54, DOI 10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.302.49 (2013)
The Effect of Radiation on Oxy-Fuel Combustion Characteristics in Microchannels
Rached Ben-Mansour, Mohamed A. Habib, Pervez Ahmed
Abstract
Thermal radiation is important in heat transfer mechanism in many micro combustion systems. Unfortunatley, a quantitative understanding on the radiation heat transfer in relatively small scale laminar diffusion flames in microchannels is lacking.
Authors describe a two dimensional model used to investigate the effects of radiation on oxy-fuel combustion characteristics in microchannels. They employ the discrete-ordinates radiation model. They note that excluding radiation model results in the over-prediction of combustion temperatures in the micro-reactor. Furthermore, they observe that the overall reaction rate and its peak value increase when accounting for radiative heat transfer, despite the decrease in temperature caused by radiation. Consequently, it is important to incorporate a radiation heat transfer model in combustion micro-systems in order to predict their characteristics accurately.
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