Falling fuel film on the spirally fluted surface of a horizontal tube can provide rapid fuel evaporation and homogeneous mixture formation. This fuel film combustion could be applied in a micro-combustion system even without a fuel pump. A test bed was established and experimental comparisons were made between the prototype and a transferred cup atomizer micro-combustor. The theoretical and experimental results show that film combustion has a higher combustion efficiency, a lower pollutant emission and a better working performance.
MEI Ning, ZHANG Bin, ZHAO Jian, ZHANG Ming
. Experimental study on film combustion formed
by spirally fluted horizontal tube[J]. Frontiers in Energy, 2008
, 2(1)
: 54
-58
.
DOI: 10.1007/s11708-008-0023-4
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