Effect of Fuel Particle Size on the Stability of Swirl Stabilized Flame in a Gas Turbine Combustor
-
R. K. Mishra
,
S. Kishore Kumar
Abstract
Combustion stability is examined in a swirl stabilized aero gas turbine combustor using computational fluid dynamics. A 22.5° sector of an annular combustor is modeled for the study. Unstructured tetrahedral meshes comprising 1.2 × 106 elements are employed in the model where the governing equations are solved using CFD flow solver CFX using eddy dissipation combustion model. The effect of fuel particle size on the combustion and its stability has been studied at steady state and transient conditions. The time for complete evaporation is increased exponentially when drop size increases. It delays heating up the mixture and subsequent ignition. This strongly affects the stability of the combustion flame as the incoming fresh mixture will have a quenching effect on the existing temperature field. Transient analysis at low fuel-air ratio and high particle size shows that there is a series of flame extinction and re-ignition prior to complete extinction which is observed from the fluctuation of gas temperature in the primary zone.
©2015 by De Gruyter
Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Lean Blow-out Studies in a Swirl Stabilized Annular Gas Turbine Combustor
- Effect of Fuel Particle Size on the Stability of Swirl Stabilized Flame in a Gas Turbine Combustor
- Design Optimization of a Centrifugal Fan with Splitter Blades
- Influence of Additional Leading-Edge Surface Roughness on Performances in Highly Loaded Compressor Cascade
- Virtual Turbine Engine Test Bench Using MGET Test Device
- Gas Turbine Fault Diagnosis Using Probabilistic Neural Networks
- Vibration Characteristics of Squeeze Film Damper during Maneuver Flight
- Aerodynamic Optimization Design of Multi-stage Turbine Using the Continuous Adjoint Method
- A Target Indirect Thrust Measurement Method of Pulse Detonation Engine
- Research on Modeling of Propeller in a Turboprop Engine
Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Lean Blow-out Studies in a Swirl Stabilized Annular Gas Turbine Combustor
- Effect of Fuel Particle Size on the Stability of Swirl Stabilized Flame in a Gas Turbine Combustor
- Design Optimization of a Centrifugal Fan with Splitter Blades
- Influence of Additional Leading-Edge Surface Roughness on Performances in Highly Loaded Compressor Cascade
- Virtual Turbine Engine Test Bench Using MGET Test Device
- Gas Turbine Fault Diagnosis Using Probabilistic Neural Networks
- Vibration Characteristics of Squeeze Film Damper during Maneuver Flight
- Aerodynamic Optimization Design of Multi-stage Turbine Using the Continuous Adjoint Method
- A Target Indirect Thrust Measurement Method of Pulse Detonation Engine
- Research on Modeling of Propeller in a Turboprop Engine
