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Catalytic combustion in stagnation-point flow

Katalytische Verbrennung in Staupunktströmungen

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Catalytic ignition and extinction processes are analyzed in this paper. The premixed fuel flows towards a catalytic plate of finite thermal conductivity and thickness. The effect of the external heating or cooling on these critical phenomena is also evaluated. Depending on the ratio of the thermal resistance of the plate to the gas, the transition to the weakly reactive to the strong reactive flow can be single or multivalued, for a high activation energy of the catalytic reaction. Analytical expressions for the critical Damköhler numbers for ignition and extinction are obtained. Also, transient processes leading to catalytic ignition are studied and ignition times for a catalytic adiabatic plate are obtained.

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Es werden die Vorgänge bei katalytischer Entzündung und Erlöschung untersucht. Dabei strömt der vorgemischte Brennstoff gegen eine katalytische Platte endlicher Wärmeleitfähigkeit und Dicke. Der Einfluß von externer Heizung oder Kühlung auf diese kritischen Phänomene wird ebenfalls berechnet. Abhängig vom Verhältnis des thermischen Widerstandes der Platte zu dem des Gases kann der Übergang von einer schwach reagierenden zur stark reagierenden Strömung bei hoher Aktivierungsenergie der katalytischen Reaktion einfach oder mehrwertig sein. Es werden analytische Ausdrücke für die kritische Damköhlerzahl für Entzündung und Erlöschung erzielt. Zudem werden transiente Prozesser, die zur katalytischen Entzündung führen, untersucht und die Zündzeiten bei einer adiabaten katalytischen Platte angegeben.

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Treviño, C., Sen, M. Catalytic combustion in stagnation-point flow. Wärme- und Stoffübertragung 19, 159–166 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01450266

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