Facilities

The Laboratory for Energy and Environmental Combustion, consisting of about 2000 square feet, contains the following areas:

• Computer laboratory
• Equipment and experimental setup
• Atmospheric pressure combustion experiments
• High-pressure combustion experiments and laser diagnostics

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and chemical reactor network (CRN) modeling is performed on dual Xeon^® processor platforms. The commercial CFD software currently used is FLUENT^®.

The atmospheric pressure combustion experiments include 16 and 64 cc jet-stirred reactors (JSRs) and a flat flame burner. The laboratory-scale staged prevaporizing-premixing injector (SPP) is available for use on either of the JSRs.

The high-pressure combustion experiments are supported an oil-less air compressor rated for 800 pounds per hour flow rate at 350 psig pressure.

Process gas analyzers for NO and NO_x, CO, CO2, and O2, and a gas chromatograph support all of the combustion experiments. Also supporting these experiments are data loggers, laboratory computers, mass flow controllers, and thermocouple instrumentation.

The laser systems include:

• Argon ion laser, rated at 1 watt continuous
• 3.39 μm helium-neon laser, rated at 2.0 mW
• Collection optics and sensors
• Digitizing oscilloscope