In many practical applications, so-called premixed burners do not achieve perfect premixing of fuel and air. Instead, fuel injection pressure is limited, the permissible burner pressure drop is small and mixing lengths are curtailed to reduce the danger of flashback. Furthermore, internal or external piloting is frequently employed to improve combustion stability, while part-load operation often requires burner staging, where neighboring burners operate with unequal fuel/air equivalence ratios. In this report, an extension of the turbulent flame speed closure (TFC) model for highly turbulent premixed combustion is presented, which allows application of the model to the case of inhomogeneously premixed combustion. The extension is quite straightforward, i.e., the dependence of model parameters on mixture fraction is accounted for by providing appropriate lookup tables or functional relationships to the model. The model parameters determined in this way are adiabatic flame temperature, laminar flame speed and critical gradient. The model has been validated against a test case from the open literature and applied to an externally piloted industrial gas turbine burner with good success.
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Modeling of Inhomogeneously Premixed Combustion With an Extended TFC Model
W. Polifke,
W. Polifke
Lehrstuhl fu¨r Thermodynamik, Technische Universita¨t Mu¨nchen, D-85747 Garching, Germany
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P. Flohr,
P. Flohr
Alstom Power Technology, CH-5405 Baden, Switzerland
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M. Brandt
M. Brandt
Lehrstuhl fu¨r Thermodynamik, Technische Universita¨t Mu¨nchen, D-85747 Garching, Germany
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W. Polifke
Lehrstuhl fu¨r Thermodynamik, Technische Universita¨t Mu¨nchen, D-85747 Garching, Germany
P. Flohr
Alstom Power Technology, CH-5405 Baden, Switzerland
M. Brandt
Lehrstuhl fu¨r Thermodynamik, Technische Universita¨t Mu¨nchen, D-85747 Garching, Germany
Contributed by the International Gas Turbine Institute (IGTI) of THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS for publication in the ASME JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING FOR GAS TURBINES AND POWER. Paper presented at the International Gas Turbine and Aeroengine Congress and Exhibition, Munich, Germany, May 8–11, 2000; Paper 00-GT-135. Manuscript received by IGTI Nov. 1999; final revision received by ASME Headquarters Feb. 2000. Associate Editor: D. R. Ballal.
J. Eng. Gas Turbines Power. Jan 2002, 124(1): 58-65 (8 pages)
Published Online: February 1, 2000
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Polifke, W., Flohr, P., and Brandt, M. (February 1, 2000). "Modeling of Inhomogeneously Premixed Combustion With an Extended TFC Model ." ASME. J. Eng. Gas Turbines Power. January 2002; 124(1): 58–65. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.1394964
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