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Dynamics of water absorption and evaporation during methanol droplet combustion in microgravity
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Nayagam, Vedha Hicks, Michael C. Williams, Forman A. Dietrich, Daniel L. |
| Copyright Year | 2012 |
| Description | The combustion of methanol droplets is profoundly influenced by the absorption and evaporation of water, generated in the gas phase as a part of the combustion products. Initially there is a water-absorption period of combustion during which the latent heat of condensation of water vapor, released into the droplet, enhances its burning rate, whereas later there is a water-evaporation period, during which the water vapor reduces the flame temperature suffciently to extinguish the flame. Recent methanol droplet-combustion experiments in ambient environments diluted with carbon dioxide, conducted in the Combustion Integrated Rack on the International Space Station (ISS), as a part of the FLEX project, provided a method to delineate the water-absorption period from the water-evaporation period using video images of flame intensity. These were obtained using an ultra-violet camera that captures the OH* radical emission at 310 nm wavelength and a color camera that captures visible flame emission. These results are compared with results of ground-based tests in the Zero Gravity Facility at the NASA Glenn Research Center which employed smaller droplets in argon-diluted environments. A simplified theoretical model developed earlier correlates the transition time at which water absorption ends and evaporation starts. The model results are shown to agree reasonably well with experiment. |
| File Size | 1116919 |
| Page Count | 15 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20130010979 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t9g49pt1x |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2012-11-28 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Inorganic, Organic And Physical Chemistry International Space Station Methyl Alcohol Reaction Kinetics Imaging Techniques Combustion Products Evaporation Water Vapor Microgravity Condensation Drops Liquids Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Presentation |
