Residence Time Effects on Soot Growth Processes.
Residence Time Effects on Soot Growth Processes.
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Ezekoye, O. A.; Zhang, Z.
NISTIR 5904; October 1996.
National Institute of Standards and Technology. Annual
Conference on Fire Research: Book of Abstracts.
October 28-31, 1996, Gaithersburg, MD, 23-24 pp, 1996.
Sponsor:
National Institute of Standards and Technology,
Gaithersburg, MD
Available from:
National Technical Information Service
Order number: PB97-153514
Keywords:
fire research; fire science; soot; time
Abstract:
Soot growth processes affect both the radiative heat
transfer distribution in a fire as well as the smoke
properties. While it is difficult to achieve long
residence time effects in laboratory scale flames at
normal gravity, it is relatively easier to produce these
conditions in microgravity flames. Within a novel
microgravity burner configuration used by Atreya and
coworkers 2 and 3 seconds of residence time are achieved
in a relatively small microgravity flame. We have
performed computational and theoretical investigations
of the soot growth processes within this geometry as
well as investigations of the convective and radiative
coupling on the total radiative transfer and burner
characteristics.
