Journal
FUEL
Volume 277, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.fuel.2020.118172
Keywords
Alternative fuel; Combustion; Emissions; Multiphase burn; Stability
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- Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF)
- Welsh European Funding Office FLEXIS Project [80835/80836]
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While dual fuel firing of power generation combustion systems can improve the fuel flexibility of such systems, several studies on compression ignition engines have also shown a positive impact on NOx and PM emissions. Previous multiphase fuel combustion studies for combustion turbines are limited, thus the present study addresses that gap by fuelling a model swirl stabilised gas turbine combustor with a blend of waste cooking oil-derived biodiesel and methane. Methane was increasingly injected into swirling combustion air flow while simultaneously reducing the biodiesel spray flowrate across a pressure atomiser, thus maintaining an overall equivalence ratio of 0.7 while delivering a thermal power output of 15 kW in all cases, except for flame stability range trials. Direct flame imaging, CH* and C-2* chemiluminescence imaging, post combustion emissions as well as stability performance of the flames were evaluated. NOx emissions were found to decrease by 29% and unburnt hydrocarbons increased by 10% as the fraction of methane in fuel mix increased to 30%. Further, flame images suggest increased wrinkling and perturbing of the flame front as gas fraction of the biodiesel/methane flame increases. However, the temporal variation of integral intensity of CH* and C-2* species chemiluminescence point to at least an 8% improvement in flame stability when 30% of flame heat output is supplied by methane compared to neat biodiesel burn. Also, it was found that flame stability limits reduce as methane partly replaces biodiesel in the flame.
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