Pressure rise generated by combustion of a gas pocket

✍ Scribed by Merwin Sibulkin

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1980
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 288 KB
• Volume: 38
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0010-2180
• DOI: 10.1016/0010-2180(80)90063-2

✦ Synopsis

An analysis is presented for calculating the pressure rise in a vessel containing an inert gas and a pocket of combustible gas. The analysis gives results that are in reasonable agreement with experimental values. The theory confirms the experimental finding that the pressure rise for stoichiometric gas mixtures initially at atmospheric pressure is independent of the heating value of the fuel when the energy per unit container Volume is the same. A generalization of this result to nonstiochiometric mixtures is given. The available experimental results are shown to apply only when the system is initially at atmospheric conditions; the analysis allows the results to be extended to other initial conditions.