Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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6474366 | Fuel | 2017 | 9 Pages |
â¢Experimentally determined explosion parameters of ethanol/air mixture.â¢Influence of initial conditions on the explosion characteristics.â¢Linear correlations between the explosion pressures and the initial pressure.â¢Linear correlations between the rates of pressure rise and the initial pressure.
Ethanol is a biofuel that can be used as an alternative fuel or as a blending component for combustion engines. This requires more information and systematic investigation of the explosion parameters of ethanol in air under various conditions. The most frequently used pressure-related parameters for risk assessment - the maximum explosion pressures, the maximum rates of pressure rise, the severity factors and the maximum explosion delay time - are determined in two spherical vessels (volume: 0.005Â m3 and 0.020Â m3) for various ethanol/air mixtures (3.5-20.0 vol%) at various initial pressures (10.1-101Â kPa) and temperatures (298-373Â K).