Date of Award

Spring 1984

Document Type

Thesis

Department

Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

Program/Concentration

Mechanical Engineering

Committee Director

A. Sidney Roberts, Jr.

Committee Member

Surendra N. Tiwari

Committee Member

Sushil K. Chaturvedi

Call Number for Print

Special Collections; LD4331.E56P36

Abstract

A forced-draft laboratory combustion system simulating diesel engine exhaust gas volume flow rate and temperature conditions for waste energy recovery is analyzed and discussed. The system consists of a fan which supplies the air. The slightly compressed air is then ducted through a combustor where it is heated, and then to an air-quencher where it is cooled to a desired temperature. Finally, the air is sent through a heat exchanger, after a diffuser process, for waste heat recovery.

A gas dynamic analysis has been performed for each component part as well as a parametric study via a computer program in order. to examine the consistency of modeling equations and to establish design specifications for an experimental combustion system. It was found that an experimental combustion system can be designed simulating exhaust gas conditions of diesel engines, with stagnation temperatures ranging from 332 to 657 C. Also the rate of waste energy recovery is in the range of 7 to 68 kW when the mass flow rate of cross-flow cooling air in the heat exchanger is 28 kg/min.

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DOI

10.25777/nqc8-nv72

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