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 27 September to 1
October 2015, Leoben
Austria

Approaches to Enhance the Combustion

Stability in Meso-scale Cylindrical Tube
Combustors
By
FUDHAIL ABDUL MUNIR*, TSUYOSHI TOKUMASA,
ASSOC. PROF. DR. TAKEHIKO SEO &
PROF. DR. MASATO MIKAMI

Graduate School of Science and Engineering

Yamaguchi University Japan
Engine System Engineering Lab (ESEL)
Website: http://www.nainen.mech.yamaguchi-u.ac.jp/
 Outline
Introduction

Methodology

Results
(i) effects of wall thermal conductivity
(ii) utilization of heat recirculation

Conclusions

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 Introduction
Meso and micro power generation
Recently, receives a lot of
attention. Why?
scarcity of energy resources & the invention of
sophisticated electronic devices

Hydrocarbon fuels are potential

alternatives to batteries
Even with only 10% conversion
efficiency, the energy harvested is 10
times than the most advanced
batteries
re-drawn from Kaiser & Vlachos [1]

[1] Kaisare NS, Vlachos DG. A review on microcombustion: Fundamentals, devices and applications. Progress 3
in Energy and Combustion Science. 2012;38:321-59
 Introduction
Micro combustor is the most important component
in micro power generation
Problem
difficulty in stabilizing the flame due to large heat
losses
backward facing excess flame holder
step enthalpy

Solutions re-drawn from Yang et al. [2]

Mikami et al. [4]

re-drawn from Maruta [3]

other methods, use of
hydrogen, catalysts
[2] Yang WM, Chou SK, Li ZW, Yang WM. Combustion in micro cylindrical combustors with and without a backward facing step. Applied Thermal Engineering. 2002;1777-1787.
[3]Maruta K.Micro and mesoscale combustion. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute. 2011;33:125-150.
[4] Mikami M, Maeda Y, Matsui K, Seo T, Yuliati L. Combustion of gaseous and liquid fuels in meso-scale tubes with wire mesh. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute. 4
2013;34:3387-94.
 Methodology
Experiments and simulations were performed

Photography of a brass tube

combustor

Schematic diagram of the combustor

Schematic diagram of experimental setup to examine the

effect of wall thermal conductivity on combustion stability

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 Methodology
Experiments to investigate heat recirculation effect

Experimental setup with a test tube

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 Methodology
3-D numerical simulation

material assumed: quartz and brass

inner diameter=3.5 mm
thickness=0.7 mm
The wire mesh is assumed to
be made of stainless steel

ANSYS R14 with Fluent is

utilised
Details of the setup can be
obtained from [5]

Computational domains

[5] Munir, F.A, Mikami, M. Modelling of Propane-air Combustion in Meso-scale Tubes with Wire Mesh. 10th Asia Pacific Conference on Combustion
(ASPACC 2015), Beijing China 7
 Results
Effects of wall thermal conductivity on the combustion
stability

B r a s s t u b e fl a m e
stabilization limits are the
widest

Experimental results of flame stabilization

limits for quartz and brass tube combustor 8
 Results
Effects of wall thermal conductivity on the combustion
stability

Higher limits for

simulation results

Comparison between experimental and

numerical results for ɸ=1.0
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 Results
Effects of wall thermal conductivity on the combustion
stability
Quartz tube combustor

Brass tube combustor

wire mesh
Gas temperature contours and values along the centerline for U=20 cm/s
& ɸ=1.0

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 Results
Effects of wall thermal conductivity on the combustion
stability

Wire mesh temperature contour for Combustion efficiency at different

U=35 cm/s & ɸ=1.0 values of U for ɸ=0.95

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 Results
Experimental results with the use of test tube (exhaust gas
recirculation)
Quartz tube
Brass tube combustor
combustor

Notable improvement on the flame stabilisation limits for

quartz tube combustor, but not brass tube
Employs numerical simulation to find out why
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 Results
Numerical results of blowout limits with the increase of ambient
temperature

Increase Tamb from 295 K to 600 K

9 % increase

28 %
increase

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 Results
Gas temperature contours with increase of Tamb

Tave=355 K Tave=541 K

Tave=561 K Tave=647 K

Significant increase of the unburned gas temperature for quartz

tube combustor
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 Results
Combustion efficiency at different ambient temperature

higher efficiency for the

quartz tube combustor

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 Conclusions
1. Effective approaches in enhancing the combustion
stability have been demonstrated
2. The positive effect of pre-heating on the reactants is
significant
3. Higher flame stabilisation limits with a notable reduction
of combustion efficiency can be achieved by
increasing the wall thermal conductivity
4. Both increase of combustion stability and efficiency
can be obtained by recirculating the exhaust gas

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 Special acknowledgment:
F.A. Munir would like to thank Malaysia
Ministry of Higher Education & Universiti
Teknikal Malaysia Melaka for the scholarship

End of presentation. Thank you. Arrogate

gozaimasu. Danke.

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