The effect of hydrogen enrichment, flame-flame interaction, confinement, and asymmetry on the acoustic response of a model can combustor

Æsøy, Eirik; Indlekofer, Thomas; Gant, Francesco; Cuquel, Alexis; Bothien, Mirko; Dawson, James

doi:10.1016/j.combustflame.2022.112176

Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-25068

Publication type:	Article in scientific journal
Type of review:	Peer review (publication)
Title:	The effect of hydrogen enrichment, flame-flame interaction, confinement, and asymmetry on the acoustic response of a model can combustor
Authors:	Æsøy, Eirik Indlekofer, Thomas Gant, Francesco Cuquel, Alexis Bothien, Mirko Dawson, James
et. al:	No
DOI:	10.1016/j.combustflame.2022.112176 10.21256/zhaw-25068
Published in:	Combustion and Flame
Volume(Issue):	242
Issue:	112176
Issue Date:	2022
Publisher / Ed. Institution:	Elsevier
ISSN:	0010-2180
Language:	English
Subjects:	Hydrogen; Thermoacoustics; Flame dynamics; Flame transfer function; Interacting flames; Asymmetry
Subject (DDC):	620: Engineering
Abstract:	To maximise power density practical gas turbine combustion systems have several injectors which can lead to complex interactions between flames. However, our knowledge about the effect of flame-flame interactions on the flame response, the essential element to predict the stability of a combustor, is still limited. The present study investigates the effect of hydrogen enrichment, flame-flame interaction, confinement, and asymmetries on the linear and non-linear acoustic response of three premixed flames in a simple can combustor. A parametric study of the linear response, characterised by the flame transfer function (FTF), is performed for swirling and non-swirling flames. Flame-flame interactions were achieved by changing the injector spacing and the level of hydrogen enrichment by power from 10 to 50%. It was found that the latter had the most significant effect on the flame response. Asymmetry effects were investigated by changing one of the flames by using a different bluff-body to alter both the flame shape and flow field. The global flame response showed that the asymmetric cases can be reconstructed using a superposition of the two symmetric cases where all three bluff-bodies and flames are the same. Overall, the linear response characterised by the flame transfer function (FTF) showed that the effect of increasing the level of hydrogen enrichment is more pronounced than the effect of the injector spacing. Increasing hydrogen enrichment results in more compact flames which minimises flame-flame interactions. More compact flames increase the cut-off frequency which can lead to self-excited modes at higher frequencies. Finally, the non-linear response was characterised by measuring the flame describing function (FDF) at a frequency close to a self-excited mode of the combustor for different injector spacings and levels of hydrogen enrichment. It is shown that increasing the hydrogen enrichment leads to higher saturation amplitude whereas the effect of injector spacing has a comparably smaller effect.
URI:	https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/25068
Fulltext version:	Published version
License (according to publishing contract):	CC BY 4.0: Attribution 4.0 International
Departement:	School of Engineering
Organisational Unit:	Institute of Energy Systems and Fluid Engineering (IEFE)
Appears in collections:	Publikationen School of Engineering

Files in This Item:

File	Description	Size	Format
2022_Aesoy-etal_Model-can-combustor-acoustic-response.pdf		3.69 MB	Adobe PDF	View/Open

Show full item record

Æsøy, E., Indlekofer, T., Gant, F., Cuquel, A., Bothien, M., & Dawson, J. (2022). The effect of hydrogen enrichment, flame-flame interaction, confinement, and asymmetry on the acoustic response of a model can combustor. Combustion and Flame, 242(112176). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.combustflame.2022.112176

Æsøy, E. et al. (2022) ‘The effect of hydrogen enrichment, flame-flame interaction, confinement, and asymmetry on the acoustic response of a model can combustor’, Combustion and Flame, 242(112176). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.combustflame.2022.112176.

E. Æsøy, T. Indlekofer, F. Gant, A. Cuquel, M. Bothien, and J. Dawson, “The effect of hydrogen enrichment, flame-flame interaction, confinement, and asymmetry on the acoustic response of a model can combustor,” Combustion and Flame, vol. 242, no. 112176, 2022, doi: 10.1016/j.combustflame.2022.112176.

ÆSØY, Eirik, Thomas INDLEKOFER, Francesco GANT, Alexis CUQUEL, Mirko BOTHIEN und James DAWSON, 2022. The effect of hydrogen enrichment, flame-flame interaction, confinement, and asymmetry on the acoustic response of a model can combustor. Combustion and Flame. 2022. Bd. 242, Nr. 112176. DOI 10.1016/j.combustflame.2022.112176

Æsøy, Eirik, Thomas Indlekofer, Francesco Gant, Alexis Cuquel, Mirko Bothien, and James Dawson. 2022. “The Effect of Hydrogen Enrichment, Flame-Flame Interaction, Confinement, and Asymmetry on the Acoustic Response of a Model Can Combustor.” Combustion and Flame 242 (112176). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.combustflame.2022.112176.

Æsøy, Eirik, et al. “The Effect of Hydrogen Enrichment, Flame-Flame Interaction, Confinement, and Asymmetry on the Acoustic Response of a Model Can Combustor.” Combustion and Flame, vol. 242, no. 112176, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.combustflame.2022.112176.