Experimental study of industrial gas turbine flames including quantification of pressure influence on flow field, fuel/air premixing and flame shape

U Stopper, W Meier, R Sadanandan, M Stöhr… - Combustion and …, 2013 - Elsevier
A commercial swirl burner for industrial gas turbine combustors was equipped with an
optically accessible combustion chamber and installed in a high-pressure test-rig. Several …

PIV, 2D-LIF and 1D-Raman measurements of flow field, composition and temperature in premixed gas turbine flames

U Stopper, M Aigner, H Ax, W Meier… - … Thermal and Fluid …, 2010 - Elsevier
Several laser diagnostic measurement techniques have been applied to study the lean
premixed natural gas/air flames of an industrial swirl burner. This was made possible by …

Flow field and combustion characterization of premixed gas turbine flames by planar laser techniques

U Stopper, M Aigner, W Meier, R Sadanandan… - 2009 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Lean premixed natural gas/air flames produced by an industrial gas turbine burner were
analyzed using laser diagnostic methods. For this purpose, the burner was equipped with an …

Simultaneous OH-PLIF and PIV measurements in a gas turbine model combustor

R Sadanandan, M Stöhr, W Meier - Applied Physics B, 2008 - Springer
In highly turbulent environments, combustion is strongly influenced by the effects of
turbulence chemistry interactions. Simultaneous measurement of the flow field and flame is …

Observations of flame behavior in a laboratory-scale pre-mixed natural gas/air gas turbine combustor from PLIF measurements of OH

PO Hedman, TH Fletcher… - … Expo: Power for …, 2002 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
The objective of this study was to obtain instantaneous planar laser induced fluorescence
(PLIF) images of OH in a laboratory-scale, gas-turbine combustor (LSGTC) with a pre-mixed …

Experiments on swirl stabilized non-premixed natural gas flames in a model gasturbine combustor

B Janus, A Dreizler, J Janicka - Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2007 - Elsevier
This study reports on experiments in an optically accessible model gas turbine combustor
equipped with a single generic nozzle. Laser Doppler velocimetry (LDV) and planar laser …

Experimental analysis of the combustion behaviour of oxyfuel flames in a gas turbine model combustor

P Kutne, BK Kapadia, W Meier, M Aigner - Proceedings of the Combustion …, 2011 - Elsevier
Power generation by using oxyfuel combustion in a gas turbine cycle is a promising option
to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emission, while using fossil fuels. In order to use this …

Investigations of swirl flames in a gas turbine model combustor: I. Flow field, structures, temperature, and species distributions

P Weigand, W Meier, XR Duan, W Stricker… - Combustion and flame, 2006 - Elsevier
A gas turbine model combustor for swirling CH4/air diffusion flames at atmospheric pressure
with good optical access for detailed laser measurements is discussed. Three flames with …

Investigations of swirl flames in a gas turbine model combustor: II. Turbulence–chemistry interactions

W Meier, XR Duan, P Weigand - Combustion and Flame, 2006 - Elsevier
The thermochemical states of three swirling CH4/air diffusion flames, stabilized in a gas
turbine model combustor, were investigated using laser Raman scattering. The flames were …

Laser-based investigations in gas turbine model combustors

W Meier, I Boxx, M Stöhr, CD Carter - Experiments in fluids, 2010 - Springer
Dynamic processes in gas turbine (GT) combustors play a key role in flame stabilization and
extinction, combustion instabilities and pollutant formation, and present a challenge for …