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STUDIES ON THE FLAME DYNAMICS AND KINETICS OF
ALCOHOLS AND LIQUID HYDROCARBON FUELS
by
Adam Takashi Holley
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements of the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(MECHANICAL ENGINEERING)
December 2008
Copyright 2008 Adam Takashi Holley
Object Description
| Title | Studies on the flame dynamics and kinetics of alcohols and liquid hydrocarbon fuels |
| Author | Holley, Adam Takashi |
| Author email | aholley@usc.edu; easytarget239@gmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Mechanical Engineering |
| School | Viterbi School of Engineering |
| Date defended/completed | 2008-10-14 |
| Date submitted | 2008 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2008-12-11 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Egolfopoulos, Fokion |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Wang, Hai Campbell, Charlie Sadhal, Satwindar Shing, Catherine |
| Abstract | An experimental and numerical study was conducted on the propagation and ignition and extinction limits of alcohols and liquid hydrocarbon fuels. Experimentally, the extinction and/or ignition limits were determined for a wide range of fuels including: C1-C2 alcohols, C5-C14 n-alkanes, C8 iso-alkanes, samples of gasoline, gasoline surrogates, samples of jet fuels, jet fuel surrogates, and synthetic fuels. Experiments were conducted for both premixed and non-premixed flames, and at ambient as well as elevated temperature. Comparison between the ignition and extinction limits of flames involving the various fuels provided insight into their burning characteristics, their relative performance, and the effect of chemical classification. The insight that was gained will aid in future surrogate development work and will provide direction for the desired composition of practical fuels. Numerically, selected experiments were simulated utilizing quasi-one-dimensional codes, which integrate the conservation equations of mass, momentum, energy, and species with detailed descriptions of molecular transport and chemical kinetics and by invoking a variety of chemical kinetic mechanisms. Through comparison between the numerical simulations and experimental results the adequacy and applicability of existing chemical kinetic mechanisms was assessed. Insight was gained into the fundamental kinetic and transport mechanisms that control flame phenomena of interest. Additionally, the inadequacies in current standard chemical kinetic mechanisms optimization practices were identified, namely the exclusion of flame phenomena other than propagation as a constraint, and the exclusion of transport properties as parameters. |
| Keyword | flame extinction; flame ignition; liquid hydrocarbons; jet fuel; gasoline; molecular diffusion |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m1916 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Holley, Adam Takashi |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Holley-2516 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume17/etd-Holley-2516.pdf |
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| Title | Page 1 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Full text | STUDIES ON THE FLAME DYNAMICS AND KINETICS OF ALCOHOLS AND LIQUID HYDROCARBON FUELS by Adam Takashi Holley A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements of the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (MECHANICAL ENGINEERING) December 2008 Copyright 2008 Adam Takashi Holley |
