A NEW APPLICATION OF THE PERFECTLY STIRRED REACTOR (P.S.R.) THEORY TO DESIGN OF COMBUSTION CHAMBERS.
Abstract
The chief requirement for combustion chamber design is a guarantee of ignition. This guarantee, it was suggested by Bragg 15 years ago, can best be met by formation of a Perfectly Stirred Reactor (P.S.R.) section at the burner location of a combustion chamber. This proposition is now proved formally in this report by considering representation of a plane or plug-flow flame by a sequence of P.S.R.'s. It is then shown that, in the region before ignition, a faster rate of temperature rise is achieved by progressively increasing the size and reducing the number of reactors, with a limit of one single large one for the whole of the ignition section. Conversely, it is shown that faster burn out after ignition is achieved by the opposite, that is by a reversion from perfect stirring to plug flow. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 01, 1967
- Accession Number
- AD0812114
Entities
People
- Robert H. Essenhigh
Organizations
- Pennsylvania State University