Author(s)

Tahani S. Gendy, Salwa A. Ghoneim^*, Amal S. Zakhary

Egyptian Petroleum Research Institute (EPRI), Cairo, Egypt.

The Response Surface Methodology (RSM) has been applied to explore the thermal structure of the experimentally studied catalytic combustion of stabilized confined turbulent gaseous diffusion flames. The Pt/γAl₂O₃ and Pd/γAl₂O₃ disc burners were situated in the combustion domain and the experiments were performed under both fuel-rich and fuel-lean conditions at a modified equivalence (fuel/air) ratio (ø) of 0.75 and 0.25 respectively. The thermal structure of these catalytic flames developed over the Pt and Pd disc burners were inspected via measuring the mean temperature profiles in the radial direction at different discrete axial locations along the flames. The RSM considers the effect of the two operating parameters explicitly (r), the radial distance from the center line of the flame, and (x), axial distance along the flame over the disc, on the measured temperature of the flames and finds the predicted maximum temperature and the corresponding process variables. Also the RSM has been employed to elucidate such effects in the three and two dimensions and displays the location of the predicted maximum temperature.

Catalytic Combustion, Fuel Lean/Fuel Rich, Noble Metals Burners, Thermal Structure, Modeling, Response Surface Method

Gendy, T. , Ghoneim, S. and Zakhary, A. (2019) Response Surface Modeling of Fuel Rich and Fuel Lean Catalytic Combustion of the Stabilized Confined Turbulent Gaseous Diffusion Flames. World Journal of Engineering and Technology, 7, 1-17. doi: 10.4236/wjet.2019.71001.