Prediction of burning velocities of saturated carbon monoxide-air flames by application of mixing rules

✍ Scribed by V.S. Yumlu

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1967
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 555 KB
• Volume: 11
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0010-2180
• DOI: 10.1016/0010-2180(67)90059-4

✦ Synopsis

The burning velocities of carbou monoxide-air mixtures containing various amounts of water have been determined using a flabflame burner with heat extraction. The addition of water is then treated as being equivalent to that of molecular hydrogen and oxygen in order to obtain a binary fuel mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide to which existing mixing rules are applied. This treatment shows that the burning velocities of carbon monoxide-air flames containing water can be predicted with less than eight per cent of error when the Spalding mixing rule is used. Calculations have shown that the heat release rates, corresponding to a homogeneous reaction, are identical if the same amount of hydrogen or water is added to the mixture, thus confirming the equivalence of these two compounds.