Experimental investigation of heat transfer characteristics of an inverse diffusion flame in a coaxial tube burner for with and without swirl

Year 2022, Volume: 8 Issue: 1, 67 - 77, 01.02.2022

Shankar Badıger Vadıraj V. Kattı T.r. Anıl

https://doi.org/10.18186/thermal.1067021

Cited By: 1

Abstract

Heat transfer by flame jet impingement is widely used in many of the industrial and domestic applications like heating metal bars, scrap melting, shaping the glass, metal slab cutting, domestic cooking and others. Aim of the present experimental work is to study an effect of swirl on a local heat flux distribution of an inverse diffusion flame (IDF) jet impinging on a flat target surface in a coaxial tube burner. The twisted tape of twist ratio 3 (corresponding to the swirl number, S = 0.52) is used to create a swirl in the central air jet of the burner. The flame shapes and heat flux distributions are compared for the with and without swirling IDF under the different air jet Reynolds number (Rea) of 1000 to 2500, equivalence ratio (ϕ) of 0.4 to 1.3 and a burner-to-impingement plate distance (H) of 10 to 100mm. The distributions of heat fluxes are studied within a radius of 75 mm from the point of stagnation on an impingement plate. Results show that the swirling IDF helps in clean combustion of the fuel with much shorter flame height. Swirling in the flame jet enhances the peak heat flux for the higher air jet Reynolds number for slightly fuel rich conditions of ϕ = 1.1 at the optimal burner-to-target plate distance of 40 mm.

Keywords

Coaxial Tube Burner, Radial Heat Flux, Inverse Diffusion Flame, Twisted Tape, Thermal Imager

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