Combustion

Combustion Theory and
Applications in CFD
CEFRC Combustion Summer School
2014
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Heinz Pitsch
Copyright ©2014 by Heinz Pitsch.

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What is Combustion?
• What is the difference between combustion and fuel oxidation in a fuel cell?
• In contrast to isothermal chemically reacting flows

 Heat release induces temperature increase
 Thereby combustion is self accelerating
• Important
 Each chemical or physical process has associated time scale
• Interaction of flow (transport) and chemistry

 Laminar and turbulent combustion
 New dimensionless groups (similar to Reynolds number)
• Damköhler number, Karlovitz number, …
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Combustion Applications: Examples
• Premixed combustion Example: SI-engine
 Spark-ignition engine
 Premixed
• Non-premixed combustion
Example: Aircraft engine
 Diesel engine
 Aircraft engine
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Impact of Combustion
Demand for energy:
• Transport and electricity
• Atmospheric pollution
• Global warming
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DOE’s International Energy Outlook 2011
World Energy Consumption [1015 Btu]
• Increase in world wide energy
consumption from 2008 until 2035: 53%
• Fossil fuels: great share (80%) of the
world wide used energy
• Mineral oil remains dominating source
of energy
• Traffic and transport: Share of about World Energy Consumption by Fuel [1015 Btu]
25%
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DOE’s International Energy Outlook 2011
• Increase of renewable energy by

a factor of 2
• Combustion of fossil fuels
remains dominating source of
energy
• Nearly 80% of energy
consumption covered by fossil
fuels
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Greenhouse Gas Emissions
• 85% of Greenhouse gas

emissions CO2
EPA Inventory of US Greenhouse Gas Emissions, 2006
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Sources of CO2
Combustion of fossil fuels:

World Energy-Related CO2 Emissions [billion tons ]
• 95% of CO2- emissions
• 80% of all greenhouse gas-
emissions
• Expected increase of CO2
emissions: 43% from 2008
until 2035
Quelle: International Energy Outlook, 2011
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Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Various approaches:
• Hydrogen economy
• CO2-sequestration (Carbon Capture and Storage, CCS)
• Bio-fuels
• …
• Increase in efficiency
Combustion Theory
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New Technologies
• Challenge of concurrent optimizing of efficiency, emissions and stability
• Examples of new technologies
• Aircraft turbines
NASA Lean Direct Injection
• Lean direct injection (LDI) Aircraft Engine Combustor
• Automotive sector
• Homogeneous charge
compression ignition (HCCI, CAI)
• Electricity generation
• Oxy-coal combustion
• Integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC)
• Flameless oxidation (FLOX) / MILD combustion
• Progress in technology increasingly supported by numerical simulations
• New technologies often lead to changes in operating range
 New challenges in the field of combustion theory and modeling!

Aim of this Course
• Develop understanding of combustion processes from physical and chemical
perspectives
• Fundamentals:
 Thermodynamics
 (Kinetics  see parallel course)
 Fluid mechanics
 Heat and mass transfer
• Applications:
 Reciprocating engines
 Gas turbines
 Furnaces
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Course Overview
Part I: Fundamentals and Laminar Flames
Part II: Turbulent Combustion
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Course Overview
• Introduction
• Fundamentals and mass balances of combustion systems
• Thermodynamics, flame temperature, and equilibrium
• Governing equations
• Laminar premixed flames: Kinematics and Burning Velocity
• Laminar premixed flames: Flame structure
• Laminar diffusion flames
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Course Overview
Part II: Turbulent Combustion
• Turbulence
• Turbulent Premixed Combustion
• Turbulent Non-Premixed Combustion
• Modeling Turbulent Combustion
• Applications
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Fundamentals and Mass Balances
of Combustion Systems
Combustion Summer School
2014
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Heinz Pitsch

Thermodynamics
The final state (after very long time) of a homogeneous

system is governed by the classical laws of thermodynamics!
Prerequisites:
• Definitions of concentrations and thermodynamic

variables
• Mass and energy balances for multicomponent systems
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Course Overview
• Introduction
• Fundamentals and mass
balances of combustion systems • Definitions, Equation of State, Mass
Balance
• Thermodynamics, flame
• Elementary and Global Reactions
temperature, and equilibrium
• Coupling Functions
• Stoichiometry
• Laminar premixed flames:
Kinematics and Burning Velocity • Mixture Fraction

Flame structure
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Definitions, Equation of State, Mass Balance
• In chemical reactions mass and chemical elements are conserved
• Combustion always in (gas) mixtures
The mole fraction

• Multi-component system with k different chemical species
• Mole: 6.0236 ·1023 molecules are defined as one mole  Avogadro number NA
• Number of moles of species i: ni
• Total number of moles:
• Mole fraction of species i:

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The mass fraction
• Mass mi of all molecules of species i is related to its number of moles by
where Wi is the molecular weight of species i
• Total mass of all molecules in the mixture:
• Mass fraction of species i:
• Mean molecular weight W:
• Mass fraction and mole fraction:

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The mass fraction of elements
• Mass fractions of elements are very useful in combustion
• Mass of the species changes due to chemical reactions, but

mass of the elements is conserved
• Number of atoms of element j in a molecule of species i: aij
• Mass of all atoms j in the system:
where ke is the total number of elements in the system, Wj is

molecular weight of element j
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The mass fraction of elements
• The mass fraction of element j is then
• From the definitions above it follows
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The partial molar density (concentration)
• Number of moles per volume V or partial molar density,

the concentration:
• Total molar density of the system is then
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The Partial Density
• The density and the partial density are defined
• The partial molar density is related to the partial density and the
mass fraction by
(relation often important for evaluation of reaction rates)
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The thermal equation of state
• In most combustion systems, thermally ideal gas law is valid
• Even for high pressure combustion this is a sufficiently accurate approximation,

because the temperatures are typically also very high
• In a mixture of ideal gases the molecules of species i exert on the surrounding

walls of the vessel the partial pressure
• Universal gas constant equal to
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Dalton's law
x
• For an ideal gas the total pressure is equal to the sum of x
x
x
the partial pressures x
x
• Thermal equation of state for a mixture of ideal gases x
x
+
o
• From this follows o

o
o
=
• And for the volume
x
o x
x
x
x
x o
o
o x
x
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Example: Methane/Air Mixture
• Known: CH4-air-mixture; 5 mass percent CH4, 95 mass percent air
Air: 21% (volume fraction) O2 , 79% N2 (approximately)
• Unknown: Mole fractions and element mass fractions
• Solution:
 Molar masses:
 Mass fractions in the air:
 In the mixture:
 Mean molar mass:
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Example: Methane/Air Mixture
• Mole fractions of Components:
• Molar mass of elements:
• with:
• Mass fractions of elements:
• Simplification: Whole numbers for values of the molar masses
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Course Overview
• Introduction
Balance
• Stoichiometry

Flame structure
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Elementary and Global Reactions
• Distinction between elementary reactions and global reactions important!
• Elementary reactions
 Describes actual micro-process
of chemical reaction
 Only take place, if collisions between reactants take place
 Reaction velocities can be determined experimentally oder theoretically
• Global reactions
 Conversion of educts to products
 Ratios of amounts of substance
 Does not represent a chemical micro-process
 Temporal process of the reaction cannot be given
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Elementary Reactions
• Observe the conservation of elements

• Chemical changes due to collisions of components
• Transition from educts to products symbolized by arrow
• Example: Bimolecular elementary reaction
• Elementary reactions also proceed backwards:
• Often symbolized by a double arrow:
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Global reactions
• Conservation of elements
• Global ratios of amounts of substance
• Do not take place on atomic scale
• Global balance of a variety of elementary reactions
• Equality sign for global reactions
• Example for global reaction:
meaning that 2 mol H2 react with 1 mol O2, yielding 2 mol H2O
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Global reactions
• Multiples of the equation are also valid:
 This does not hold for elementary reactions!
• Multiplication of the equation of the global reaction by the molar masses

→ Mass balance during combustion
• Example: Combustion of H2 using the foregoing equation
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Global reactions
• Stoichiometric coefficient of reactants i:
• Stoichiometric coefficient of products i:
• Stoichiometric coefficient of a component

(only for global reactions):
• Note:
 Stoichiometric coefficients ni of the educts are negative!
 Whereas ni‘ are defined to be positive!
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Global reactions
Formulation of global reactions:
• Combustion of hydrocarbon fuel or an alcohol
• Atoms in the fuel: Carbon, hydrogen and oxygen

 Number of atoms in the fuel
• Stochiometric coefficients of the global reaction are derived from nB‘

 Balances of atoms
• C:
• H:
• O:
• Example:
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Course Overview
• Introduction
Balance
• Stoichiometry

Flame structure
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Coupling functions
Global reaction, e.g.: n1 F + n2 O = n3 P
• Conversion of:
• n1 moles of component 1
• ni moles of component i
• Reaction has taken place n1/n1 or ni/ni times  n1/n1 = ni/ni

• Differential notation:
• Integrating, e.g. for fuel and oxygen from the unburnt state
→ Coupling function:
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Course Overview
• Introduction
Balance
• Stoichiometry

Flame structure
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Stoichiometry
• Stoichiometric:
- Fuel-to-oxygen ratio such that both are entirely consumed
when combustion to CO2 and H2O is completed
• For example,
- Global reaction describing combustion of a single component
hydrocarbon fuel CmHn (subscript F for fuel)
- Stoichiometric coefficients are
where may be chosen arbitrarily to unity
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Stoichiometric Mass Ratio
• Mole number ratio for stoichiometric condition
or in terms of mass fractions
where n is called the stoichiometric mass ratio
• Typical value: Methane: n = 4

• Mass ratio n
 Fuel and oxidizer are both consumed when combustion is completed
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Stoichiometric Mass Ratio
• This is consistent with coupling function, since
leads to
• Complete consumption of fuel and oxygen
leads to
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*Extra: Minimum oxygen requirement
• Minimum oxygen requirement (molar): omin,m
 Fuel/air mole number ratio before combustion at stoichiometric conditions
 Ratio of the stoichiometric coefficients
• Minumum oxygen requirement (mass): omin
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*Extra: Minimum air requirement
• Minimum air requirement:
 Mass of air per mass of fuel in complete combustion
• Relation between minimum oxygen and minimum air requirement:
with:
• Mass fraction YO2,air = 0,232
• Mole fraction XO2,air = 0,21
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The equivalence ratio
• The equivalence ratio is the ratio of fuel to oxidizer ratio in the unburnt to that
of a stoichiometric mixture
• For combustion with oxygen
• Can be written also in terms of

• Fuel to air ratio
• Mole fractions
• Stoichiometric mass ratio n obtained from global reaction
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Course Overview
• Introduction
balances of combustion systems • Definitions, equation of state, mass
balance
• Stoichiometry

Flame structure
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The mixture fraction
• Equivalence ratio important parameter in combustion
• Mixture fraction quantifies local fuel-air ratio in non-premixed combustion
• Consider two separate feed streams of

 Fuel
 Oxidizer (air, pure oxygen)
• Streams mix and burn
• Fuel stream
 Often consists of one component only
 In general does not contain oxidizer
• Oxidizer stream
 Generally does not contain fuel
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In the following:
• Fuel stream: Subscript 1
• Oxidizer stream: Subscript 2
Definition mixture fraction

• Mass fraction of the fuel stream in the mixture:
where m1 and m2 are the local mass originating from the individual streams
• Mixture fraction always between zero and one

• Fuel stream: Z=1
• Oxidizer stream: Z = 0
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Note: Index B means fuel
• Mass fraction of fuel in the fuel stream: YB,1
• Mass fraction of oxygen in the oxidizer stream: YO2,2
 Before combustion:
Dividing by the total mass flow, yields
 Mixture fraction linear with fuel mass
 Coupling function:
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• Mixture fraction:
• For stoichiometric composition:

 The first two terms in the numerator have to cancel out
 Stoichiometric mixture fraction:
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Mixture fraction definition by Bilger
• Consider elements C, H, O in combustion of a CmHn fuel with oxygen or air
nF CmHn + nO2 O2 = Products
• Changes in elements
or in terms of element mass fraction
• Coupling function:
 Changes in b should vanish

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Mixture fraction definition by Bilger
• Normalizing this such that Z = 1 in the fuel stream and Z = 0 in the oxidizer stream,
one obtains Bilger's definition
or
• Because elements are conserved during combustion, element mass fractions

calculated from
do not change
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Relation of mixture fraction with equivalence ratio
• Fuel-air equivalence ratio
• Introducing and
into
leads with
to a unique relation between the equivalence ratio and the mixture fraction
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The equivalence ratio
• This relation is also valid for multicomponent fuels (see exercise below)
• It illustrates that the mixture fraction is simply another expression for the local
equivalence ratio
Exercise:
- The element mass fractions of a mixture of hydrocarbons and its
mean molecular weight W are assumed to be known
- Determine its stoichiometric mixture fraction in air
- Hint:
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Diffusion Flame Structure at Complete Conversion
Profiles of YF and YO2 in the unburnt gas
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• Stoichiometric composition
• If Z < Zst , fuel is deficient

• Mixture is fuel lean
• Combustion terminates when all fuel is consumed:
(burnt gas, subscript b)
• Remaining oxygen mass fraction in the burnt gas is calculated from
as
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• If Z > Zst oxygen is deficient

• Mixture is fuel rich
• Combustion then terminates when all the oxygen is consumed:
leading to
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• For hydrocarbon fuel CmHn, the element mass fractions in the unburnt mixture are
• For the burnt gas they are for the hydrocarbon fuel considered above
• Elements are conserved, hence Zj,u = Zj,b
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• This leads with and for
and for
to piecewise linear relations of the product mass fractions in terms of Z:
where
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Profiles in the burning mixture
Burke-Schumann Solution:
Infinitely fast, irreversible chemistry

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Summary
• Introduction
Balance
• Stoichiometry

Flame structure
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Combustion Theory and

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Heinz Pitsch

Copyright ©2014 by Heinz Pitsch.

• In contrast to isothermal chemically reacting flows

• Interaction of flow (transport) and chemistry

• Increase of renewable energy by

• 85% of Greenhouse gas

EPA Inventory of US Greenhouse Gas Emissions, 2006

Combustion of fossil fuels:

Quelle: International Energy Outlook, 2011

 New challenges in the field of combustion theory and modeling!

Part I: Fundamentals and Laminar Flames

Part II: Turbulent Combustion

• Fundamentals and mass balances of combustion systems

• Thermodynamics, flame temperature, and equilibrium

• Laminar premixed flames: Kinematics and Burning Velocity

• Laminar premixed flames: Flame structure

• Laminar diffusion flames

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Heinz Pitsch

The final state (after very long time) of a homogeneous

• Definitions of concentrations and thermodynamic

• Mass and energy balances for multicomponent systems

• Laminar premixed flames:

• In chemical reactions mass and chemical elements are conserved

• Combustion always in (gas) mixtures

The mole fraction

• Number of moles of species i: ni

• Total number of moles:

• Mole fraction of species i:

where Wi is the molecular weight of species i

• Total mass of all molecules in the mixture:

• Mass fraction of species i:

• Mean molecular weight W:

• Mass fraction and mole fraction:

• Mass fractions of elements are very useful in combustion

• Mass of the species changes due to chemical reactions, but

• Number of atoms of element j in a molecule of species i: aij

• Mass of all atoms j in the system:

where ke is the total number of elements in the system, Wj is

• The mass fraction of element j is then

• From the definitions above it follows

• Number of moles per volume V or partial molar density,

• Total molar density of the system is then

• The density and the partial density are defined

(relation often important for evaluation of reaction rates)

• In most combustion systems, thermally ideal gas law is valid

• Even for high pressure combustion this is a sufficiently accurate approximation,

• In a mixture of ideal gases the molecules of species i exert on the surrounding

• Universal gas constant equal to

• From this follows o

 Mass fractions in the air:

 Mean molar mass:

• Mole fractions of Components:

• Molar mass of elements:

• Mass fractions of elements:

• Simplification: Whole numbers for values of the molar masses

• Laminar premixed flames:

• Distinction between elementary reactions and global reactions important!

• Observe the conservation of elements

• Elementary reactions also proceed backwards:

• Often symbolized by a double arrow:

• Global ratios of amounts of substance

• Do not take place on atomic scale

• Global balance of a variety of elementary reactions