LABORATORY REPORT: Modeling Species Transport and Gaseous Combustion

(VARUN JADON) (ME12M1029)

PROBLEM: The cylindrical combustor considered in this tutorial is shown in Figure 14.1. The ame considered is a turbulent diusion ame. A small nozzle in the center of the combustor introduces methane at 80 m/s. Ambient air enters the combustor coaxially at 0.5 m/s. The overall equivalence ratio is approximately 0.76 (approximately 28% excess air). The high-speed methane jet initially expands with little interference from the outer wall, and entrains and mixes with the low-speed air. The Reynolds number based on the methane jet diameter is approximately 5.7 103 .

Combustion of Methane Gas in a Turbulent Diusion Flame Furnace

PROCEDURE:
1. Read the mesh file gascomb.msh and check and scale the mesh. 2. Select axisymettric from 2d space list. 3. Enable energy equation in models and change viscous model to k-epsilon turbulence model and enable species transport in the model list. 4. Go to materials and edit it and maintain the default settings in drop down list of selected species; reactions and density. 5. Change different boundary conditions like symmetry 5 to axis 5;velocity inlet 8 to air inlet; velocity inlet 5 to fuel inlet;wall 7 to outerwall and wall 2 to nozzle and change the respective characteristic values in different regions. 6. Retain the default solution parameters and put relaxation factor=0.95 for co2,ch4,o2 and h2o in solution controls and ensure the plotting of residuals during calculation. 7. Initialize the solution through all zonews and run the calculation for 500 iterations. 8. Plot temperature contours and xy plots for mass fractions of different components 9. Go to mixtures in materials and change the thermal conductivity to mixing law andcheck for temperature dependence of different components. 10. Report the total sensible heat flux and display temperature ; stream function ,mass fraction of different components and specific heat contours and velocity vectors. 11. Determine the average exit temperature; average exit velocity. 12. Enable Nox model and draw contours of mass fraction of NO first for both prompt and thermal tab enabled; then only prompt tab enabled and then only thermal tab enabled. 13. Define a custom function for No ppm and draw contours of NO ppm. 14. Repeat the process for various equivalence ratio by changing ch4 amount in fuel inlet. And plot mass fraction versus position plots for different entities.

RESULTS:
CONSTANT Cp : EQUIVALENCE RATIO=.76
CONTOURS OF STATIC TEMPERATURE:

MASS FRACTION OF CH4:

MASS FRACTION OF O2:

MASS FRACTION OF C02:

MASS FRACTION OF H20:

VARIABLE SPECIFIC HEAT : EQUIVALENCE RATIO =.76

CONTOURS OF SPECIFIC HEAT:

CONTOURS OF STATIC TEMPERATURE:

TOTAL SENSIBLE HEAT FLUX:

VELOCITY VECTORS:

CONTOURS OF STREAM FUNCTION:

CONTOURS OF MASS FRACTION OF CH4:

CONTOURS OF MASS FRACTION OF O2:

CIONTOURS OF MASS FRACTION OF CO2:

CONTOURS OF MASS FRACTION OF H20:

AVERAGE EXIT TEMPERATURE: 1833.565K AVERAGE EXIT VELOCITY: 3.433087m/s

Nox PREDICTION:
CONTOURS OF NO MASS FRACTION:

AVERAGE EXIT NO MASS FRACTION: 0.004336948

CONTOURS OF NO MASS FRACTION : THERMAL NOx FORMATION:

CONTOURS OF NO MASS FRACTION : PROMPT NOx FORMATION:

CONTOURS OF NO PPM:

CONSTANT SPECIFIC HEAT EQUIVALENCE RATIO: 1.25

MASS FRACTION OF H20:

MASS FRACTION OF CH4:

MASS FRACTION OF 02:

MASS FRACTION OF CO2:

CONSTANT SPECIFIC HEAT EQUIVALENCE RATIO: 0.8

MASS FRACTION OF CH4:

MASS FRACTION OF O2:

MASS FRACTION OF CO2:

MASS FRACTION OF H20:

CONCLUSIONS:
EQUIVALENCE RATIO = .8 AVERAGE EXIT TEPERATURE: 2186.591K AVERAGE EXIT VELOCITY : 4.01048m/s EQUIVALENCE RATIO = 0.76 AVERAGE EXIT TEPERATURE: 2241.619k AVERAGE EXIT VELOCITY : 4.105918m/s EQUIVALENCE RATIO = 1.25 AVERAGE EXIT TEPERATURE: 1697.693k AVERAGE EXIT VELOCITY : 3.190608m/s