- Title
- Experimental investigation of explosion characteristics of methane-air mixtures in a vented vessel connected to a curved duct
- Creator
- Kundu, Sazal K.; Zanganeh, Jafar; Eschebach, Daniel; Moghtaderi, Behdad
- Relation
- 11th Asia-Pacific Conference on Combustion (ASPACC 2017). Proceedings of the 11th Asia-Pacific Conference on Combustion (Sydney 10-14 December, 2017)
- Publisher
- UNSW
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2017
- Description
- The explosion characteristics of methane-air mixtures were explored in a 20 litre vented vessel connected to a curved duct (one form of ducted vessel). With the aim of relating the experimental outcome with the real world explosion scenario, a wafer check valve was employed. The valve was used to keep the methane-air mixture initially confined and open at the time of explosion. The experiments were carried out in turbulent methane-air mixtures with strong igniters. The turbulent mixture of methane-air, strong ignition energies and curved flow pathways impacted on explosion parameters. The explosion pressure rise was found to be higher in the investigated system when compared to quiescent methane-air mixtures, weak ignition energies and straight duct.
- Subject
- explosion characteristics; methane; air mixtures; pressure
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1386354
- Identifier
- uon:32402
- Language
- eng
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