Pollutant formation and int ... combustion of heavy liquid fuels

CHAPTER II. EXPERIMENTS WITH THE SINGLE SUSPENDED DROPLET TECHNIQUE

1. Objective

The Single Suspended Droplet technique was described in section "2.3.1. Single suspended droplet technique" of chapter I. In addition, experimental work previously reported was reviewed.

In the present work the technique was used to obtain preliminary, comparative, qualitative and quantitative information of the combustion performance of the fuels studied.

Quantitative information collected comprised the duration of the various stages of the droplet combustion. The ignition temperature of the fuels was another parameter studied, as well as the maximum temperature of combustion of coke residues, in the case where the existence of a residue was detected.

Qualitative information collected by visual observation included the ejection of soot and disruptive behaviour. In particular, the variation of the droplet size, swelling and contraction, were studied by means of video recordings.

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Pollutant formation and interaction in the combustion of heavy liquid fuels
Luis Javier Molero de Blas, PhD thesis, University of London, 1998
© Luis Javier Molero de Blas