An experimental study on the ignition of dusts behind reflected shock waves

고체미립자의 반사압축파에 의한 점화에 관한 실험적 연구

In relation to the dust detonatians which have imposed severe damages on the industry, the ignitability of various dusts has been investigated on a horizontal shock tube in this study. By using a newly designed air injector, very well-distributed clouds could be obtained. The proper reflected shock conditions have been generated by placing a reflector 1.5cm behind the air injector, which reflected the incident shock wave. The incident shock waves in the range of Mach number 2.8-3.3 created the postreflected shock temperature of 1200-1600K. Experimentally the ignition delay was defined as the time interval between the arrival of a reflected shock wave at dusts and the detection of visible light. Measured ignition delays of dusts investigated were located lower than 1msec under the above conditions. These values are one-order higher than those in the incident shock wave condition. In this type of ignitiion process the following three processes are considered to play important roles; heating of a particle, generation of volatile gas by endothermic devolatilization process, and its diffusion from the particle surface and the formation of stoichiometric mixture with oxidizer.

본 연구에서는 새로 고안된 연료주입기(air injector)바로 뒤에 입사압축파를 반사시키기 위한 벽을 설치하므로써 고체입자의 입사압축파에 대한 노출을 최대한 줄 였고 또한 새로운 연료주입기에 의해 매우 잘 분포된 입자분포를 얻을 수 있었다. 반사압축파에 의해 생성된 고온 고압의 산소중에서의 고체입자의 점화지연시간을 측정 하므로써 기체유동이 존재하는 입사압축파실험에서의 점화지연시간과 비교하여 기체유 동이 고체 미립자의 점화에 미치는 영향을 알아볼 수 있었고 반사압축파에 의한 점화 상태 조건하에서도 표면 점화모델이 성립하는지를 고찰해 보았다.