Download or read book Measurement and Simulation of Spontaneous Raman Scattering Spectra in High Pressure Fuel Rich H2 Air Flames written by Nasa Technical Reports Server (Ntrs) and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rotational vibrational spontaneous Raman spectra (SRS) of H2, N2, and H2O have been measured in H2-air flames at pressures up to 30 atm as a first stem towards establishing a comprehensive Raman spectral database for temperatures and species in high-pressure combustion. A newly developed high-pressure burner facility provides steady, reproducible flames with a high degree of flow precision. We have obtained an initial set of measurements that indicate the spectra are of sufficient quality in terms of spectral resolution, wavelength coverage, and signal-to-noise ratio for use in future reference standards. The fully resolved Stokes and anti-Stokes shifted SRS spectra were collected in the visible wavelength range (400-700 nm) using pulse-stretched 532 nm excitation and a non-intensified CCD spectrograph with a high-speed shutter. Reasonable temperatures were determined via the intensity distribution of rotational H2 lines at stoichiometry and fuel-rich conditions. Theoretical Raman spectra of H2 were computed using a semi-classical harmonic-oscillator model with recent pressure broadening data and were compared with experimental results. The data and simulation indicated that high-J rotational lines of H2 might interfere with the N2 vibrational Q-branch lines, and this could lead to errors in N2-Raman thermometry based on the line-fitting method. From a comparison of N2 Q-branch spectra in lean H2 low-pressure (1.2 atm) and high-pressure (30 atm) flames, we found no significant line-narrowing or -broadening effects at the current spectrometer resolution of 0.04 nm.
Download or read book Quantitative Analysis of Spectral Interference of Spontaneous Raman Scattering in High Pressure Fuel Rich H2 Air Combustion written by Nasa Technical Reports Server (Ntrs) and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We present a theoretical study of the spectral interferences in the spontaneous Raman scattering spectra of major combustion products in 30-atm fuel-rich hydrogen-air flames. An effective methodology is introduced to choose an appropriate line-shape model for simulating Raman spectra in high-pressure combustion environments. The Voigt profile with the additive approximation assumption was found to provide a reasonable model of the spectral line shape for the present analysis. The rotational/vibrational Raman spectra of H2, N2, and H2O were calculated using an anharmonic-oscillator model using the latest collisional broadening coefficients. The calculated spectra were validated with data obtained in a 10-atm fuel-rich H2-air flame and showed excellent agreement. Our quantitative spectral analysis for equivalence ratios ranging from 1.5 to 5.0 revealed substantial amounts of spectral cross-talk between the rotational H2 lines and the N2 O-/Q-branch; and between the vibrational H2O(0,3) line and the vibrational H2O spectrum. We also address the temperature dependence of the spectral cross-talk and extend our analysis to include a cross-talk compensation technique that removes the nterference arising from the H2 Raman spectra onto the N2, or H2O spectra.
Download or read book Research Technology 2004 written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Thermometry in High Pressure Gases Using Spontaneous Raman Scattering written by Timothy William Haller and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spontaneous Raman scattering from nitrogen is studied in high pressure gases. Collision frequency increases with increasing gas density, causing spectral lines to broaden due to pressure broadening and mix when the lines are strongly overlapped. Because spontaneous Raman thermometry is accomplished by fitting a simulated spectrum to an experimental spectrum, spectral models that neglect these collision-induced effects will lead to erroneous temperature inference. This work investigates the influence of high density on ro-vibrational spontaneous Raman scattering, which must be understood to obtain accurate thermometry in high pressure gases. The temperature profile through a flame front was measured at 1 atm, 3 atm, and 5 atm using spontaneous Raman scattering from nitrogen. The pressure broadening was measured for the anisotropic tensor component of spontaneous Raman scattering from room temperature nitrogen over the pressure range of 10 atm to 70 atm for three gas compositions: pure nitrogen, air, and nitrogen in argon. The unmixed line model was found to give good fits to the O and S branches for all pressures, which indicates that line mixing effects are not significant in the O and S branches over this pressure range. Using indirect experimental evidence, line mixing effects in the anisotropic component of the Q branch were inferred to be below the threshold set by the experimental spectral resolution at pressures up to 70 atm at room temperature. Assuming that the anisotropic Q branch lines mix like the isotropic lines was found to result in a small systematic error in the inferred temperature at flame temperatures, with the error increasing slowly with pressure. The bias can be removed by modeling the anisotropic spectrum separately from the isotropic spectrum. Line mixing effects should be included in the modeling of the isotropic component of the Raman spectrum, but can probably be neglected in the anisotropic component of the ro-vibrational spontaneous Raman spectrum of nitrogen
Download or read book Development of a High Pressure Gaseous Burner for Calibrating Optical Diagnostic Techniques written by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-20 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work-in-progress report, we show the development of a unique high-pressure burner facility (up to 60 atm) that provides steady, reproducible premixed flames with high precision, while having the capability to use multiple fuel/oxidizer combinations. The highpressure facility has four optical access ports for applying different laser diagnostic techniques and will provide a standard reference flame for the development of a spectroscopic database in high-pressure/temperature conditions. Spontaneous Raman scattering (SRS) was the first diagnostic applied, and was used to successfully probe premixed hydrogen-air flames generated in the facility using a novel multi-jet micro-premixed array burner element. The SRS spectral data include contributions from H2, N2, O2, and H2O and were collected over a wide range of equivalence ratios ranging from 0.16 to 4.9 at an initial pressure of 10-atm via a spatially resolved point SRS measurement with a high-performance optical system. Temperatures in fuel-lean to stoichiometric conditions were determined from the ratio of the Stokes to anti-Stokes scattering of the Q-branch of N2, and those in fuel-rich conditions via the rotational temperature of H2. The SRS derived temperatures using both techniques were consistent and indicated that the flame temperature was approximately 500 K below that predicted by adiabatic equilibrium, indicating a large amount of heat-loss at the measurement zone. The integrated vibrational SRS signals show that SRS provides quantitative number density data in high-pressure H2-air flames. Kojima, Jun and Nguyen, Quang-Viet Glenn Research Center NASA/TM-2003-212738, E-14263
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Download or read book Rotational and Vibrational Raman Spectroscopy for Thermochemistry Measurements in Supersonic Flames written by Alexander C Bayeh and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High speed chemically reacting flows are important in a variety of aerospace applications, namely ramjets, scramjets, afterburners, and rocket exhausts. To study flame extinction under similar high Mach number conditions, we need access to thermochemistry measurements in supersonic environments. In the current work a two-stage miniaturized combustor has been designed that can produce open supersonic methane-air flames amenable to laser diagnostics. The first stage is a vitiation burner, and was inspired by well-known principles of jet combustors. We explored the salient parameters of operation experimentally, and verified flame holding computationally using a well-stirred reactor model. The second stage of the burner generates an external supersonic flame, operating in premixed and partially premixed modes. The very high Mach numbers present in the supersonic flames should provide a useful test bed for the examination of flame suppression and extinction using laser diagnostics. We also present the development of new line imaging diagnostics for thermochemistry measurements in high speed flows. A novel combination of vibrational and rotational Raman scattering is used to measure major species densities (O2, N2, CH4, H2O,CO2, CO, & H2) and temperature. Temperature is determined by the rotational Raman technique by comparing measured rotational spectra to simulated spectra based on the measured chemical composition. Pressure is calculated from density and temperature measurements through the ideal gas law. The independent assessment of density and temperature allows for measurements in environments where the pressure is not known a priori. In the present study we applied the diagnostics to laboratory scale supersonic air and vitiation jets, and examine the feasibility of such measurements in reacting supersonic flames. Results of full thermochemistry were obtained for the air and vitiation jets that reveal the expected structure of an under-expanded jet. Centerline traces of density, temperature, and pressure of the air jet agree well with computations, while measurements of chemical composition for the vitiation flow also agree well with predicted equilibrium values. Finally, we apply the new diagnostics to the exhaust of the developed burner, and show the first ever results for density, temperature, and pressure, as well as chemical composition in a supersonic flame. The electronic version of this dissertation is accessible from http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/151043
Download or read book Application of Spontaneous Raman Scattering for Measurements of Thermal Non equilibrium in High speed Mixing and Combustion written by Heath Heinrich Reising and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mixing-induced vibrational non-equilibrium is studied in the turbulent shear layer between a high-speed jet and a surrounding hot-air coflow. The vibrational and rotational temperatures of N2 and O2 are determined by fitting measured spontaneous Raman scattering spectra to a model that allows for different equilibrium distributions of the vibrational and rotational states. The mixing of the jet fluid with the coflow gases occurs over microsecond time scales, which is sufficiently fast to induce vibrational non-equilibrium in the mixture of hot and cold gases. I measured the non-equilibrium on the hot side of the shear layer, but not on the cold side where the vibrational population in the first hot band is negligible. The effect of fluctuating temperatures on the time-averaged Raman measurement was quantified using single-shot Rayleigh thermometry. The Raman scattering results were found to be insensitive to fluctuations except where the flame is present intermittently. It was also found that the measured non-equilibrium increases in the shear layer when N2 is removed from the jet fluid, indicating that the measurements average two competing processes that occur simultaneously at a molecular scale: vibrationally hot N2 cooled by the fast jet fluid and vibrationally cold jet fluid heated by a hot coflow. An interesting inference is that the averaging effect is always present, regardless of the measurement resolution. No measurable vibrational non-equilibrium is found in the O2 molecules in the same non-reacting regions. This difference between species temperatures violates the two-temperature assumption often used in the modeling of high-temperature non-equilibrium flow. A new technique was developed to obtain spontaneous Raman scattering temperature measurements from a single laser pulse. This technique required the construction of a multiple-pass cell to obtain adequate scattered signal. Additionally, the pulse was stretched temporally with a system of partial reflectors and time-flight-delay ring cavities in order to reduce the peak power of the 1 J laser pulses. These measurements were found to be in agreement with the previous time-average results and allowed for measurement to be made near the fluctuating base of a lifted flame – a region where time-averaged measurements do not give meaningful results.
Download or read book Spontaneous Raman Scattering Diagnostics for High pressure Gaseous Flames written by Jun Kojima and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hybrid Fs ps Rotational CARS Temperature and Oxygen Measurements in the Product Gases of Canonical Flat Flames written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hybrid fs/ps pure-rotational coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) scheme is systematically evaluated over a wide range of flame conditions in the product gases of two canonical flat-flame burners. Near-transform-limited, broadband femtosecond pump and Stokes pulses impulsively prepare a rotational Raman coherence, which is later probed using a high-energy, frequency-narrow picosecond beam generated by the second-harmonic bandwidth compression scheme that has recently been demonstrated for rotational CARS generation in H2/air flat flames. The measured spectra are free of collision effects and nonresonant background and can be obtained on a single-shot basis at 1 kHz. The technique is evaluated for temperature/oxygen measurements in near-adiabatic H2/air flames stabilized on the Hencken burner for equivalence ratios of [phi] = 0.20-1.20. Thermometry is demonstrated in hydrocarbon/air products for [phi] = 0.75-3.14 in premixed C2H4/air flat flames on the McKenna burner. Reliable spectral fitting is demonstrated for both shot-averaged and single-laser-shot data using a simple phenomenological model. Measurement accuracy is benchmarked by comparison to adiabatic-equilibrium calculations for the H2/air flames, and by comparison with nanosecond CARS measurements for the C2H4/air flames. Quantitative accuracy comparable to nanosecond rotational CARS measurements is observed, while the observed precision in both the temperature and oxygen data is extraordinarily high, exceeding nanosecond CARS, and on par with the best published thermometric precision by femtosecond vibrational CARS in flames, and rotational femtosecond CARS at low temperature. Threshold levels of signal-to-noise ratio to achieve 1-2% precision in temperature and O2/N2 ratio are identified. Our results show that pure-rotational fs/ps CARS is a robust and quantitative tool when applied across a wide range of flame conditions spanning lean H2/air combustion to fuel-rich sooting hydrocarbon flames.
Download or read book Investigation of the Feasibility of CARS Measurements in Scramjet Combustion written by J. A. Shirley and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Development of a Multiple pass Raman Spectrometer for Flame Diagnostics written by Utsav KC and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multiple-pass cell is developed and applied to enhance the Raman signal from methane-air flames for temperature measurements. Stable operation of the cell was demonstrated and studied in two alignment modes. In the ring mode, the beams are focused into a ring of ~ 3 mm diameter at the center of the cell, and spectra were recorded at low dispersion (0.26 nm/pixel). Temperature is calculated from the ratio of the intensity of Stokes to anti-Stokes signal from nitrogen. Temperature is also inferred from the shapes of the Stokes and anti-Stokes peaks in the spectrum. The uncertainty in the value of flame temperature in these measurements was ±50 K. The signal gain from 100 passes is a factor of 83. Signal to noise ratio (SNR) improved by a factor of 9.3 in room temperature air with an even higher factor in flames. The improvement in SNR depends on the acquisition time and is best for short acquisition times. In the two point mode, multi passing is achieved simultaneously with high spatial resolution as the laser is focused at two small regions separated by ~ 2 mm at the center of the cell. The probe regions are 300 [mu]m × 200 [mu]m. The vast improvement in the spatial resolution is achieved at the cost of a reduced number of passes and signal gain. The two point mode is operated with 25 passes at each point with a signal gain factor of ~20; the SNR gain depends on the data acquisition time. Spectra were recorded at high dispersion (~0.03 nm/pixel). Temperature is inferred from curve fitting to the high resolution Stokes spectrum of nitrogen in methane-air flames. The curve fit is based on very detailed simulation of Raman spectrum of nitrogen. The final model includes the angular dependence of Raman scattering, electrical and mechanical anharmonicity in the polarizability matrix elements, and the presence of a rare isotope of nitrogen in air. The uncertainty in the value of temperature in the least noisy data is ±9 K. The sources of uncertainty in temperature and their contribution to the total uncertainty are also identified.
Download or read book International Aerospace Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 974 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Determination of Gas Temperatures from Laser Raman Scattering written by Jack A. Salzman and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation was conducted on the feasibility of using Raman scattered laser light to measure local gas temperatures. Temperature error predictions were made based on the statistics of the scattering process and Raman spectral theory. Methods were developed for the calculation of temperature measurement accuracies as a function of Raman signal for different spectral line ratio schemes. The results of these theoretical calculations were compared with experimental rotational Raman data obtained from a laboratory-constructed Raman spectrophotometer. Nitrogen was used as a gas sample for a range of controlled temperatures from 253 to 313 K and pressures from 0. 5 to 5.0 atmospheres.
Download or read book Development of a Raman Spectroscopy Technique to Detect Alternate Transportation Fuel Hydrocarbon Intermediates in Complex Combustion Environments written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spontaneous Raman spectra for important hydrocarbon fuels and combustion intermediates were recorded over a range of low-to-moderate flame temperatures using the multiscalar measurement facility located at Sandia/CA. Recorded spectra were extrapolated to higher flame temperatures and then converted into empirical spectral libraries that can readily be incorporated into existing post-processing analysis models that account for crosstalk from overlapping hydrocarbon channel signal. Performance testing of the developed libraries and reduction methods was conducted through an examination of results from well-characterized laminar reference flames, and was found to provide good agreement. The diagnostic development allows for temporally and spatially resolved flame measurements of speciated hydrocarbon concentrations whose parent is more chemically complex than methane. Such data are needed to validate increasingly complex flame simulations.
Download or read book Temperature and Density Measurements in a Variable Pressure Hydrogen Air Flat Flame Using Raman Spectroscopy written by Franklin M. Haas and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
