Starting up implication of the two-region porous inert medium (PIM) burners

Ayman I. Bakry, Karim Rabea and Magda El-Fakharany

Energy, 2020, vol. 201, issue C

Abstract: An inherent serious problem was noticed when the two-region Porous-Inert-Medium (PIM) burners were started-up at low-powers. The ignition near their downstream surface, failed to commence a correct combustion process. Depending on a limiting excess-air-ratio (λ), two distinct combustion patterns were detected. A noisy-explosive flame-plume was remarked for values below this limit, while a suspended free-flame on the downstream surface was observed for values above this limit. The combustion process was self-extinguished in both patterns. A systematic study was performed to explore this phenomenon. The real-time temperature variation was measured along a two-region PIM burner of wire-mesh and SiC-foam materials of different configurations as supercritical regions. It was fueled with Liquefied-Petroleum-Gas (LPG) and examined at several elevated low-powers between 0.576 and 2.535 kW. All the applied powers were checked at the same λ values between 0.73 and 1.58. An essential limiting power, associated with every PIM configuration, or higher at λ below the limiting value should be applied for an adequate and immediate startup. The limiting λ was found to depend only on the PIM material. Therefore, researchers and designers of PIM burners should identify these limiting power and λ values for their own PIM configurations before devoting them in real-appliances.

Keywords: PIM burners; Startup difficulty; Low-power operation; Limiting startup power; Limiting excess air ratio (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2020.117602

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