Sooting Yale Coflow Diffusion Flames



Standard Constant-Mass Doped Flames


The Standard Constant-Mass Doped Flames are a series of fuel-doped methane/air coflow flames that we have used to generate soot concentration data for real diesel and jet fuels, their surrogates, and the individual components of the surrogates.  While doped flames are usually defined in terms of MOLE, the reactant compositions for these flames are defined in terms of MASS since the molecular weights of the real fuels are not known precisely.

Burner:  The measurements were performed in a Yale Coflow Burner, which has the dimensions shown in the figure below.



Available Data:  Currently we have two-dimensional distributions of soot volume fraction and soot temperature measured by color-ratio pyrometry.  These were measured using color-ratio pyrometry as discussed in the following publications. Click on the links above to access the datasets.

D.D. Das, W.J. Cannella, C.S. McEnally, C.J. Mueller, L.D. Pfefferle, Two-dimensional soot volume fraction measurements in flames doped with large hydrocarbons, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.proci.2016.06.047

D.D. Das, W.J. Cannella, T. Kwan, C.S. McEnally, C.J. Mueller, J. Zimmerman, L.D. Pfefferle, title TBD, journal TDB, in preparation.