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Laminar burning velocities of methanol mixed with formaldehyde and statistical examination of the heat flux burners

Flood, Emelie LU (2012) FYSK01 20111
Department of Physics
Combustion Physics
Abstract
Combustion of methanol is being used widely and the chemistry in the process is therefore important to know. When being mixed with formaldehyde and combusted previous measurements with the heat flux method have shown results not consistent with the theoretical models present today. These experiments are in this paper being repeated. A statistical examination of the burners used for the measurements is also conducted. The results are a calibration of the burners and values of the laminar burning velocity that are consistent with the previous values. This calibration is used on the methanol formaldehyde mixtures and gives a result that, as previous results also do, differs from the model. Large scatter is observed in the temperature... (More)
Combustion of methanol is being used widely and the chemistry in the process is therefore important to know. When being mixed with formaldehyde and combusted previous measurements with the heat flux method have shown results not consistent with the theoretical models present today. These experiments are in this paper being repeated. A statistical examination of the burners used for the measurements is also conducted. The results are a calibration of the burners and values of the laminar burning velocity that are consistent with the previous values. This calibration is used on the methanol formaldehyde mixtures and gives a result that, as previous results also do, differs from the model. Large scatter is observed in the temperature distribution as measured by the thermocouples. The experimental values consist of some outliers and this can be the result by water contamination. This conclusion is verified by a density determination of the methanol formaldehyde mixtures. (Less)
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author
Flood, Emelie LU
supervisor
organization
course
FYSK01 20111
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
Methanol, formaldehyde, statistical analysis, burner, heat flux method, Matlab, biofuel, combustion, fuel, density, temperature, laminar burning velocity, acetone, thermocouple, equivalence ratio
language
English
id
2372662
date added to LUP
2012-04-10 17:00:36
date last changed
2012-11-12 22:40:49
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  abstract     = {{Combustion of methanol is being used widely and the chemistry in the process is therefore important to know. When being mixed with formaldehyde and combusted previous measurements with the heat flux method have shown results not consistent with the theoretical models present today. These experiments are in this paper being repeated. A statistical examination of the burners used for the measurements is also conducted. The results are a calibration of the burners and values of the laminar burning velocity that are consistent with the previous values. This calibration is used on the methanol formaldehyde mixtures and gives a result that, as previous results also do, differs from the model. Large scatter is observed in the temperature distribution as measured by the thermocouples. The experimental values consist of some outliers and this can be the result by water contamination. This conclusion is verified by a density determination of the methanol formaldehyde mixtures.}},
  author       = {{Flood, Emelie}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Laminar burning velocities of methanol mixed with formaldehyde and statistical examination of the heat flux burners}},
  year         = {{2012}},
}