Mesoscale power generation by a catalytic combustor using electrosprayed liquid hydrocarbons

Dimitrios C. Kyritsis; Ismael Guerrero-Arias; Subir Roychoudhury; Alessandro Gomez

doi:10.1016/s1540-7489(02)80122-5

Mesoscale power generation by a catalytic combustor using electrosprayed liquid hydrocarbons

Dimitrios C. Kyritsis
, Ismael Guerrero-Arias
, Subir Roychoudhury
, Alessandro Gomez

Mechanical & Nuclear Engineering

Yale University
Precision Combustion Incorporated

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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 NO_x were detected in the exhaust gases. The system resulted in clean and efficient combustion of even environmentally problematic liquid hydrocarbons.

Original language	British English
Pages (from-to)	965-972
Number of pages	8
Journal	Proceedings of the Combustion Institute
Volume	29
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/s1540-7489(02)80122-5
State	Published - 2002
Event	30th International Symposium on Combustion - Chicago, IL, United States Duration: 25 Jul 2004 → 30 Jul 2004

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