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DNS Study of Spherically Expanding Premixed Turbulent Ammonia-Hydrogen Flame Kernels, Effect of Equivalence Ratio and Hydrogen Content

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  • Nithin Mukundakumar

    (Power and Flow, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands)

  • Rob Bastiaans

    (Power and Flow, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands
    Eindhoven Institute for Renewable Energy Systems (EIRES), Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands)

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In this study, 3D premixed turbulent ammonia-hydrogen flames in air were studied using DNS. Mixtures with 75%, 50% and 25% ammonia (by mole fraction in the fuel mixture) and equivalence ratios of 0.8, 1.0 and 1.2 were studied. The studies were conducted in a decaying turbulence field with an initial Karlovitz number of 10. The flame structure and the influence of ammonia and the equivalence ratio were first studied. It was observed that the increase in equivalence ratio smoothened out the small scale wrinkles while leading to strongly curved leading edges. Increasing the amount of hydrogen in the fuel mixtures also led to increasingly distorted flames. These effects are attributed to local increases in the equivalence ratio due to the preferential diffusion effects of hydrogen. The effects of curvature on the flame chemistry were studied by looking at fuel consumption rates and key reactions. It was observed that the highly mobile H 2 and H species were responsible for differential rates of fuel consumption in the positively curved and negatively curved regions of the flame. The indication of a critical amount of hydrogen in the fuel mixture was observed, after which the trends of reactions involving H radical reactions were flipped with respect to the sign of the curvature. This also has implications on NO formation. Finally, the spatial profiles of heat release and temperature for 50% hydrogen were studied, which showed that the flame brush of the lean case increases in width and that the flame propagation is slow for stoichiometric and rich cases attributed to suppression of flame chemistry due to preferential diffusion effects.

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  • Nithin Mukundakumar & Rob Bastiaans, 2022. "DNS Study of Spherically Expanding Premixed Turbulent Ammonia-Hydrogen Flame Kernels, Effect of Equivalence Ratio and Hydrogen Content," Energies, MDPI, vol. 15(13), pages 1-16, June.
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