TY - JOUR
T1 - Mesoscale power generation by a catalytic combustor using electrosprayed liquid hydrocarbons
AU - Kyritsis, Dimitrios C.
AU - Guerrero-Arias, Ismael
AU - Roychoudhury, Subir
AU - Gomez, Alessandro
N1 - Funding Information:
We acknowledge Mr. R. W. Dean of PCI for his assistance with the micro-GC measurements and Mr. N. Bernardo of Yale University for machining the hardware. The support of DARPA, under grant DAAD19-01-1-0664 (Dr. Richard J. Paur, Contract Monitor) is gratefully acknowledged. Microlith is a trademark of Precision Combustion. Inc.
PY - 2002
Y1 - 2002
N2 - The development of a mesoscale catalytic combustor to be coupled with direct energy conversion modules for power production is presented. The combustor has a volume on the order of a few cubic centimeters and operates on JP8 jet fuel, which is electrosprayed at a flow rate on the order of 10 g/hr and equivalence ratios varying from 0.35 to 0.70. Temperatures in the range 900-1300 K are achieved with a ± 5% uniformity over the top circular surface of the burner. Using gas chromatographic analysis of the exhaust gases, a combustion efficiency on the order of 97% is estimated. Remarkably, no fouling, nor soot, nor NOx were detected in the exhaust gases. The system resulted in clean and efficient combustion of even environmentally problematic liquid hydrocarbons.
AB - The development of a mesoscale catalytic combustor to be coupled with direct energy conversion modules for power production is presented. The combustor has a volume on the order of a few cubic centimeters and operates on JP8 jet fuel, which is electrosprayed at a flow rate on the order of 10 g/hr and equivalence ratios varying from 0.35 to 0.70. Temperatures in the range 900-1300 K are achieved with a ± 5% uniformity over the top circular surface of the burner. Using gas chromatographic analysis of the exhaust gases, a combustion efficiency on the order of 97% is estimated. Remarkably, no fouling, nor soot, nor NOx were detected in the exhaust gases. The system resulted in clean and efficient combustion of even environmentally problematic liquid hydrocarbons.
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U2 - 10.1016/s1540-7489(02)80122-5
DO - 10.1016/s1540-7489(02)80122-5
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:0038575337
SN - 1540-7489
VL - 29
SP - 965
EP - 972
JO - Proceedings of the Combustion Institute
JF - Proceedings of the Combustion Institute
IS - 1
T2 - 30th International Symposium on Combustion
Y2 - 25 July 2004 through 30 July 2004
ER -