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Abstract

In order to evaluate the potential of partial ammonia substitution to improve the safety of hydrogen use and the effects on the performance of internal combustion engines, the propagation, development of surface cellular instability and nitrogen oxide (NOx) and nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions of spark-ignited spherical laminar premixed ammonia/hydrogen/air flames were studied experimentally and computationally. With ammonia being the substituent, the fundamental unstretched laminar burning velocities and Markstein numbers, the propensity of cell formation and the associated flame structure were determined. Results show substantial reduction of laminar burning velocities with ammonia substitution in hydrogen/air flames, similar to hydrocarbon (e.g., methane with a similar molecular weight to ammonia) substitution. In all cases, ammonia substitution enhances the NOx and N2O formation. At fuel-rich conditions, however, the amount of NOx emissions increases and then decreases with ammonia substitution and the increased amount of NOx and N2O emissions with ammonia substitution is much lower than that under fuel-lean conditions. These observations support the potential of ammonia as a carbon-free, clean additive for improving the safety of hydrogen use with low NOx and N2O emissions in fuel-rich hydrogen/air flames. The potential of ammonia as a suppressant of both preferential-diffusional and hydrodynamic cellular instabilities in hydrogen/air flames was also found particularly for fuel-lean conditions, different from methane substitution. However, it should be noted that the use of ammonia also imposes considerable technological challenges and public concerns, particularly those associated with toxicity and the specific properties such as high reactivity with container materials and water, which should be completely resolved. (C) 2010 Professor T. Nejat Veziroglu. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Year of Publication
2010
Journal
International Journal of Hydrogen Energy
Volume
35
Number of Pages
11332-11341
ISBN Number
0360-3199
Accession Number
WOS:000284443200057
DOI
10.1016/j.ijhydene.2010.07.104
Alternate Journal
Int J Hydrogen Energ
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