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A Review on Clean Combustion Within Porous Media

  • Niraj Kumar MishraEmail author
  • P. Muthukumar
  • Snehasish Panigrahy
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Abstract

Technological growth of any nation demands more fossil fuels which cause two major threats. First one is the shortage of fossil fuel, and the second is environmental pollution. Recently, the age-old conventional combustion process is being substituted by an innovative combustion technology, called porous medium combustion. This surge of interest in porous radiant burner is driven by some of the important benefits such as high thermal efficiency, low emission characteristics, high power modulation range, extended flammability limits and high power density. In the last two decades, there has been a significant development in the research aiming at changing the operating parameters and the design configurations of the porous radiant burners to attain lower emissions and higher thermal performances. Various burners based on porous medium combustion have been developed for industrial and domestic applications and showed beneficial over their conventional burner counterparts. Porous radiant burners based on porous medium combustion technology showed good emission characteristics and offer higher thermal efficiencies. Although, durability of few burners is still a matter of concern which results in non-commercialization of these products. This chapter summarizes the development of various porous radiant burners used in both industrial and cooking applications.

Keywords

Combustion Porous radiant burner Premixed combustion CO emissions NOx emissions 

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Abbreviations

PMC

Porous medium combustion

PM

Porous matrix

PMB

Porous medium burner

CB

Conventional burner

ppm

Parts per million

LPG

Liquefied petroleum gas

Al2O3

Alumina

ZrO2

Zirconia

PSZ

Partially stabilized zirconia

SiC

Silicon carbide

PRB

Porous radiant burner

PZ

Preheating zone

CZ

Combustion zone

CO

Carbon monoxide

Nomenclature

\( d_{\text{m}} \)

Equivalent pore diameter (mm)

\( c_{\text{p}} \)

Specific heat (kJ/kg K)

\( \rho \)

Density (kg/m3)

\( k \)

Thermal conductivity of the fuel-air mixture (W/m K)

\( S_{\text{L}} \)

Laminar flame speed (m/s)

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Niraj Kumar Mishra
    • 1
    Email author
  • P. Muthukumar
    • 2
  • Snehasish Panigrahy
    • 2
  1. 1.Department of Mechanical EngineeringNational Institute of Technology UttarakhandSrinagarIndia
  2. 2.Department of Mechanical EngineeringIndian Institute of Technology GuwahatiGuwahatiIndia

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