TY  - EJOU
AU  - Chen, Junjie 
AU  - Song, Wenya 
AU  - Gao, Xuhui 
AU  - Yan, Longfei 
AU  - Xu, Deguang 

TI  - FLAME STABILITY OF PROPANE-AIR PREMIXED COMBUSTION IN  HEAT-RECIRCULATION MICRO-COMBUSTORS
T2  - Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer

PY  - 2016
VL  - 7
IS  - 1
SN  - 2151-8629

AB  - The flame stability of single-pass heat-recirculation micro-combustors was investigated using computational fluid dynamics and compared to singlechannel micro-combustors with respect to critical heat loss coefficient and total power loss. The effect of wall thermal conductivity was also explored. 
The simulations show that heat recirculation profoundly affects blowout because of preheating of the cold incoming gases but has only minimal effect
on extinction. In the limit of low-conductivity walls, the heat-recirculation micro-combustor is much more stable than the single-channel microcombustor. Under certain conditions, the heat recirculation micro-combustor can operate with room-temperature inlet and outlet streams and moderate
outer wall temperatures while exhibiting high thermal and combustion efficiency.
KW  - <i>Micro-combustion; Flame stability; Heat recirculation; Extinction; Blowout; Micro-combustor; Excess enthalpy.</i>

DO  - 10.5098/hmt.7.3