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Influence of propane additives on the detonation characteristics of H2-air mixtures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2014

Guanbing Cheng ,
Pascal Bauer  and
Ratiba Zitoun
Guanbing Cheng*
Affiliation:
Aeronautical Engineering College, Civil Aviation University of China, No. 2898, Jinbei Road, Dongli District, 300300 Tianjin, P.R. China
Pascal Bauer*
Affiliation:
Institut PPRIME UPR 3346, Département Fluides, Thermique, Combustion, CNRS, 1 Av. Clément Ader, BP 109, 86961 Futuroscope Cedex, France
Ratiba Zitoun
Affiliation:
Institut PPRIME UPR 3346, Département Fluides, Thermique, Combustion, CNRS, 1 Av. Clément Ader, BP 109, 86961 Futuroscope Cedex, France
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ae-mail: [email protected]
be-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

Hydrogen is more and more considered as a potential fuel for propulsion applications. However, due to its low ignition energy and wide flammability limits, H2-air mixtures raise a concern in terms of safety. This aspect can be partly solved by adding an alkane to these mixtures, which plays the role of an inhibitor. The present paper provides data on such binary fuel-air mixtures where various amounts of propane are added to hydrogen. The behavior of the corresponding mixtures, in terms of detonation characteristics and other fundamental properties, such as the cell size of the detonation front and induction delay, are presented and discussed for a series of equivalence ratios and propane addition. The experimental detonation velocity is in good agreement with calculated theoretical Chapman-Jouguet values. Based on soot tracks records, the cell size λ is measured, whereas the induction length Li is derived from data using a GRI-Mech kinetic mechanism. These data allow providing a value of the coefficient K = λ/Li.

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The European Physical Journal - Applied Physics , Volume 65 , Issue 3 , March 2014 , 30902
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© EDP Sciences, 2014

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