Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
208393 Fuel 2008 10 Pages PDF
Abstract

This study focuses on the key parameters that enhance the stability of ribbon burners used in various industrial processes, characterizing the flame environment and flow regimes that the burner creates under changing operating conditions. The research includes the exploration of ribbon-pack configurations in order to define the effects of separation distance and port arrangement on flame stability and thermal and fluid flow. Flow visualization studies reveal that burners having a 1.5–2.0 mm division between rows appear to be the most stable. More than four rows of ports in the ribbon-pack are required to resist entrainment of ambient air as a result of impinging surface motion. The flame environment created by the ribbon burner experiences higher levels of mixing, at a lower Reynolds number in comparison to a single non-reacting jet due to combustion-induced turbulence and jet interaction. Under these high flow velocity conditions there is little entrainment of ambient air along the impingement surface and a very stable flame environment is created.

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