Plasma assisted combustion: Dynamics and chemistry

Y Ju, W Sun - Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, 2015 - Elsevier
Plasma assisted combustion is a promising technology to improve engine performance,
increase lean burn flame stability, reduce emissions, and enhance low temperature fuel …

Relaxation of electronic excitation in nitrogen/oxygen and fuel/air mixtures: fast gas heating in plasma-assisted ignition and flame stabilization

NA Popov, SM Starikovskaia - Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Fast gas heating (FGH) is an abrupt increase in gas temperature in non-equilibrium low-
temperature plasma due to relaxation of electronically excited states of atoms and …

Dynamics and control of premixed combustion systems based on flame transfer and describing functions

T Schuller, T Poinsot, S Candel - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2020 - cambridge.org
This article describes recent progress on premixed flame dynamics interacting with acoustic
waves. Expressions are derived to determine the stability of combustors with respect to …

Flames with plasmas

DA Lacoste - Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2023 - Elsevier
Non-equilibrium plasma discharges can create a favorable environment for combustion
processes, at low energy cost.“How favorable?” and “How low?” are two open questions that …

The effect of ozone addition on combustion: Kinetics and dynamics

W Sun, X Gao, B Wu, T Ombrello - Progress in Energy and Combustion …, 2019 - Elsevier
Ozone addition is a promising method to enhance and control combustion and ignition
processes. It can be produced efficiently at atmospheric or elevated pressure conditions and …

Plasma-assisted combustion with nanosecond discharges. I: Discharge effects characterization in the burnt gases of a lean flame

NQ Minesi, VP Blanchard, E Pannier… - Plasma Sources …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The prediction of a flame response to plasma assistance requires extensive knowledge of
discharge-induced plasma kinetics. Detailed studies of nanosecond discharges are …

Dual-fuel, dual-swirl burner for the mitigation of thermoacoustic instabilities in turbulent ammonia-hydrogen flames

A Katoch, TF Guiberti, DV de Campos… - Combustion and Flame, 2022 - Elsevier
In this paper, a novel dual-fuel, dual-swirl burner is presented and its potential to mitigate
thermoacoustic coupling for ammonia-hydrogen-air flames is explored. The key feature of …

Experimental investigation of non-equilibrium plasma-assisted ammonia flames using NH2* chemiluminescence and OH planar laser-induced fluorescence

J Choe, W Sun - Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2023 - Elsevier
This study investigates the effect of nano-second pulsed non-equilibrium plasma on
ammonia combustion in a model gas turbine combustor using NH 2* chemiluminescence …

[HTML][HTML] Low-temperature filamentary plasma for ignition-stabilized combustion

R Patel, J van Oijen, N Dam, S Nijdam - Combustion and Flame, 2023 - Elsevier
In this work, an experimental study investigating dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) plasma-
assisted ignition in methane-air flows at near-atmospheric pressure is presented …

[HTML][HTML] Numerical study of nitrogen oxides chemistry during plasma assisted combustion in a sequential combustor

Q Malé, N Barléon, S Shcherbanev… - Combustion and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Plasma Assisted Combustion (PAC) is a promising technology to enhance the
combustion of lean mixtures prone to instabilities and flame blow-off. Although many PAC …