AE Measurement of Occurrences of Micro-explosion during Droplet Combustion of Fuel/Water Emulsions with Ethanol Additive
Kei SUZUKI, Hiroshi YAMASAKI, Osamu IMAMURA, Shigeki FURUKAWA, Yoshihiko OBATA
pp. 157-166
DOI:
10.3775/jie.96.157Abstract
Purpose of our study is to obtain the detail information about the occurrences of micro-explosion in a burning emulsion droplet with ethanol additive. n-Hexadecane in water emulsions doped with surfactant and ethanol additives were prepared as test fuels. Combustion experiments are made for a test droplet suspended at the tip of a quartz filament in a quiescent air environment. The base fuel and surfactant content were 0.7 and 0.03 by volume respectively. Ethanol content is varied from 0.0 to 0.08 by volume. Time histories of droplet temperature is measured by thermocouple of 0.025 mm in diameter. Phase separation process of test emulsion suspended in glass tubes immersed in oil bath is also discussed. The Weibull analysis is applied to obtain the distribution function of the waiting time for occurrences of micro-explosion and to determine the mean waiting time for micro-explosion. AE signal of micro-explosion was measured simultaneously and discussed the relative intensity of micro-explosion as a peak voltage of AE signal. The results showed that the distribution function of the waiting time for occurrences of micro-explosion are correlated to the Weibull distribution, classified to the wear-out type of its shape parameter of 2.0. It is also concluded that mean AE peak voltage of micro-explosion correlated with droplet temperature. Effects of ethanol addition on mean waiting time for micro-explosion and internal phenomena in a burning droplet were also revealed.
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