The Role of Exhaust Gas Recirculation in Flameless Combustion

Abstract:

Recently, flameless combustion has been developed as an innovative combustion method to intensify combustion performance and to decrease the pollutant formation contemporaneously. The outstanding economic aspects and merits of flameless combustion have persuaded the combustion scientists to investigate about this unique technology in the various ways and conditions. In flameless chambers the roles of heat and mass transfer are more highlighted than traditional combustion due to Exhaust Gas Recirculation (EGR) method. Flameless systems are characterized by highly preheated combustion air and burned gases recirculation before reaction. This paper is concerned with the detailed theoretical analysis of thermodynamics relationships in flameless combustion method.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 388)
• Pages: 262-267
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.388.262
• Online since: August 2013
• Authors: Seyed Ehsan Hosseini, Mazlan A. Wahid, Abuelnuor Abdeen Ali Abuelnuor
• Keywords: Combustion, Exhaust Gas Recirculation (EGR), Flameless, Thermodynamic

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