- Flame propagation mechanisms in dust explosions
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- 论文类型： 期刊论文
- 发表时间： 2015-07-01
- 发表刊物： JOURNAL OF LOSS PREVENTION IN THE PROCESS INDUSTRIES
- 收录刊物： SCIE、EI、Scopus
- 卷号： 36
- 页面范围： 188-196
- ISSN号： 0950-4230
- 关键字： Dust explosion; Particle thermal characteristics; Particle size distributions; Flame propagation mechanisms
- 摘要： To reveal the effects of particle characteristics, including particle thermal characteristics and size distributions, on flame propagation mechanisms during dust explosions clearly, the flame structures of dust clouds formed by different materials and particle size distributions were recorded using an approach combining high-speed photography and a band-pass filter. Two obviously different flame propagation mechanisms were observed in the experiments: kinetics-controlled regime and devolatilization-controlled regime. Kinetics-controlled regime was characterized by a regular shape and spatially continuous combustion zone structure, which was similar to the premixed gas explosions. On the contrary, devolatilization-controlled regime was characterized by a complicated structure that exhibited heterogeneous combustion characteristics, discrete blue luminous spots appeared surrounding the yellow luminous zone. It was also demonstrated experimentally that the flame propagation mechanisms transited from kinetics-controlled to devolatilization-controlled while decreasing the volatility of the materials or increasing the size of the particles. Damkohler number was defined as the ratio of the heating and devolatilization characteristic time to the combustion reaction characteristic time, to reflect the transition of flame propagation mechanisms in dust explosions. It was found that the kinetics-controlled regime and devolatilization-controlled regime can be categorized by whether Damkohler number was less than 1 or larger than 1. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
