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Frontiers in Energy >> 2019, Volume 13, Issue 4 doi: 10.1007/s11708-019-0645-8

Exergy losses in premixed flames of dimethyl ether and hydrogen blends

. Key Laboratory for Power Machinery and Engineering of the Ministry of Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China.. Key Laboratory for Power Machinery and Engineering of the Ministry of Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China; Key Laboratory of Low-grade Energy Utilization Technologies and Systems of the Ministry of Education, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400044, China

Accepted: 2019-08-27 Available online: 2019-08-27

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Abstract

A second-law thermodynamic analysis was conducted for stoichiometric premixed dimethyl ether (DME)/hydrogen (H )/air flames at atmospheric pressure. The exergy losses from the irreversibility sources, i.e., chemical reaction, heat conduction and species diffusion, and those from partial combustion products were analyzed in the flames with changed fuel blends. It is observed that, regardless of the fuel blends, chemical reaction contributes most to the exergy losses, followed by incomplete combustion, and heat conduction, while mass diffusion has the least contribution to exergy loss. The results also indicate that increased H substitution decreases the exergy losses from reactions, conduction, and diffusion, primarily because of the flame thickness reduction at elevated H substitution. The decreases in exergy losses by chemical reactions and heat conduction are higher, but the exergy loss reduction by diffusion is slight. However, the exergy losses from incomplete combustion increase with H substitution, because the fractions of the unburned fuels and combustion intermediates, e.g., H and OH radical, increase. The overall exergy losses in the DME/H flames decrease by about 5% with increased H substitution from 0% to 100%.

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