Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
586188 Journal of Loss Prevention in the Process Industries 2015 7 Pages PDF
Abstract

•Gasoline-air explosion experiments under three equivalence ratios were carried out.•Laminar flame speed was estimated based on analysis of the experimental data.•Damköhler number and Reynolds number of the explosion were worked out.•Flame regimes of the early, interim and late stage of the explosion were estimated.

Flame regime of gasoline-air mixture explosion is related to chemical reaction, turbulent flow and heat and mass transfer. Experimental data of gas velocity, pressure and flame temperature of gasoline-air mixture explosion in a tube at the equivalence ratio of 0.72, 1.00 and 1.28 were preliminarily acquired. Then, fluctuating velocities, overpressures, and burned and unburned gas temperatures at early stage (50 ms), intermediate stage (150 ms) and last stage (250 ms) in three explosions were determined through the analysis of the experimental data. Finally, the Damköhler number and Reynolds number of the early, intermediate and late stage were calculated respectively, and the flame regimes for each stage were estimated through the Damköhler number vs. Reynolds number diagram. Results show that all the flames at early, intermediate and late stage of the three explosions have the same regime of flamelets-in-eddies. The conclusions can provide some useful references for further study of the flame regime and the numerical analysis model selection of gasoline-air mixture explosion.

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