Combustion performances of premixed ammonia/hydrogen/air laminar and swirling flames for a wide range of equivalence ratios

Mashruk, Syed, Zitouni, Seif-Eddine, Brequigny, Pierre, Mounaim-Rousselle, Christine and Valera Medina, Agustin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1580-7133 2022. Combustion performances of premixed ammonia/hydrogen/air laminar and swirling flames for a wide range of equivalence ratios. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 47 (97) , pp. 41170-41182. 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2022.09.165

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Abstract

Ammonia, a carbon-free source of hydrogen has recently gained considerable attention as energy solution towards a green future. Previous works have shown that adding 30VOL.% hydrogen with ammonia can eradicate the drawbacks of pure ammonia combustion but no study in the literature has investigated this blend across a wide range of equivalence ratios. The present work investigates 70/30VOL.% NH3/H2 blend from 0.55 ≤ Φ ≤ 1.4 for both premixed laminar spherically expanding flames and turbulent swirling flames at atmospheric conditions. A detailed chemistry analysis has been conducted in Ansys CHEMKIN-PRO platform using a chemical reactor network (CRN) model to simulate the swirling turbulent flames. NO and NO2 emissions have followed similar bell-shaped trends, peaking at around Φ = 0.8, while N2O emission rises at lean conditions (Φ ≤ 0.7). The results indicate that Φ = 1.2 is the optimum equivalence ratio with reduced NOX emissions and some ammonia slip.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Engineering
Publisher:	Elsevier
ISSN:	0360-3199
Funders:	EPSRC
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	9 October 2022
Date of Acceptance:	16 September 2022
Last Modified:	14 Jun 2023 17:56
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/153183

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