Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Fang, Jun
• Meng, Ya-Ru
• Wang, Jing-Wu
• Zhao, Lu-Yao
• He, Xuan-Ze
• Ji, Jie
• Zhang, Yong-Ming

Titel

Experimental, numerical and theoretical analyses of the ignition of thermally thick PMMA by periodic irradiation

Ist Teil von

• Combustion and flame, 2018-11, Vol.197, p.41-48

Ort / Verlag

New York: Elsevier Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Quelle

Elsevier ScienceDirect Journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• •Ignition of thermally thick material under periodic heating was investigated.•The incipient ignition occurs in the periodic ‘on’ cycle.•The in-depth temperatures delay due to the in-depth distance and cycle.•The ignition temperature and mass flux are independent of the periodic heat flux.•The bigger ignition time is caused by the lower time-averaged external heat flux. In this work, the pyrolysis and ignition of thermally thick poly (methylmethacrylate) material with low periodic on-off irradiation was investigated, the solid and gas absorption was ignored, an ignition time formula with periodic heating was established based on the deduced ignition time model. The results show that the surface and in-depth sample temperatures as well as the mass flux all increase during the periodic ‘on’ cycle prior to ignition, at the moment there is a small luminous sustained flame, followed by flame spreading. For the surface temperature, the fluctuation magnitude increases with increasing cycle time ∝τ. The in-depth temperature decay relating to the distance and cycle as ∝exp(−x/τ). The surface and in-depth temperatures, mass flux oscillates due to the periodic on-off irradiation with a time delay, which increases with increasing cycle and in-depth distance as ∝τx. The cycle has slight influence upon the surface temperature and mass flux at the moment of ignition, where the ignition temperature maintains at about 340 °C, while the critical mass flux is in a range of 1–1.4 g/m2s, which are both independent of the external heat flux. The linear relationship of successive peak surface temperature with heat flux via time (Ts*−T0q˙″e)2∝t in the periodic on-off heating is retained. The theoretical predictions of the periodic ignition times derived in this study are in good agreement with the experimental measurements. Finally, compared with constant heat flux, the periodic heating delays the ignition, but with increasing cycle time, the ignition time is seen to decrease, which is primarily attributed to increases in the time-averaged irradiative heat flux. The classical model over-predicts the ignition time, the prediction error is expected to increase for long time ignition with low thermal inertia, big perturbation heat flux and long cycle time.