A theoretical study of the effects of chemical kinetics on a one-dimensional diffusion flame

✍ Scribed by D.B. Spalding; V.K. Jain

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1962
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 586 KB
• Volume: 6
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0010-2180
• DOI: 10.1016/0010-2180(62)90104-9

✦ Synopsis

The present paper considers the effects of chemical kinetzcs on a one-dimensional diffusion flame. A mathematical treatment which takes the ]uel fraction as the independent variable is presented and numerical solutions are obtained lor a particular idealized hydrocarbon-air diffusion flame. It is shown that, at the extinction point of the particular diffusion flame considered, the fuel-consumption rate per unit area is 0.89 times the fuel-consumption rate per unit area in a premixed stoichiometric flame; at higher ]uel flow rates the flame is extinguished.

It is also shown that, even before extinction, some 1uel escapes unburnt through the diffusion flame of the type considered.