OH chemiluminescence of methane-hydrogen premixed flames

Abstract

In this study, OH chemiluminescence of methane-hydrogen premixed flames formed on a Bunsen burner was investigated. As for the chemiluminescence intensity, we obtained the values at the edge of the flame and at the central axis of the flame, compared with the value calculated by the inverse Abel transform. It was found that the value at the central axis of the flame was less dependent on the measurement position than that at the edge of the flame, because the effect of integrated chemiluminescence intensity on the optical path was small. In addition, four filters with different center wavelengths were tested. Although the chemiluminescence intensity was changed by the filter, the dependence of the chemiluminescence intensity on the equivalence ratio was almost the same. For more discussion, the OH concentration and the heat release rate predicted by the numerical simulation of a one-dimensional methane-hydrogen flame were compared with the OH chemiluminescence and the burning velocity in experiments. It was revealed that, even when hydrogen was added by keeping the total equivalence ratio constant, the OH chemiluminescence intensity was proportional to the production rate of excited OH* produced by the reaction of CH and O 2 concentrations. Similarly, the OH chemiluminescence intensity was apparently related with the heat release rate.