Ijet 16257
Ijet 16257
Ijet 16257
7) (2018) 142-144
Research paper
Abstract
The objective of this paper is to numerically study the flow feature and combustion phenomena of an energy-saving cooking burner using
three-dimensional computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Combustion temperatures were experimentally and numerically investigated in
order to not only validate the CFD model, but also describe the combustion phenomena. From the temperature comparison, the CFD
model was good agreement with the experiment, having the error of less than 5.86%. Based upon the insight from the CFD model, the
high temperature of 1,286 K occurred at the middle of the burner. The high intensive vortex of the flow being enhanced the combustion
intensity and the heat transfer coefficient is obvious observed near the burner head inside the ring. Therefore, it is concluded that the
burner ring is the major part since it controls flame structure, high temperature region, intensive combustion region, heat loss and suitable
flow feature. However, heat transfer to the vessel should be further clarified by the CFD model.
Keywords: Energy-saving cooking burner, CFD, combustion temperature, flow feature, validation.
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Figure 2: (a) computational domain, (b) boundary conditions and (c) burner head (upper plate and ring)
This may be the second reason why the combustion of the burner
can provide the blue flame, the complete combustion, at all com-
bustion regions or gas flow rates. Moreover, high intensive vortex
of the flow near the burner head inside the ring is obvious ob-
served. It is known well that the combustion intensity and the heat
transfer coefficient were enhanced by the vortex. This may be
another reasons of the higher thermal efficiency of this burner.
4. Conclusion
Simulation study of an energy-saving cooking burner was present-
ed in this paper. The temperatures of combustion from measure-
(b) CFD model
Figure 3: Flame shape. ment in radial distance at various heights were applied to validate
the CFD modeling. It was found that the CFD results were good
agreement with the experimental results, having the errors of less
1600 T1 (Exp.) T1 (CFD) than 5.86%. Based upon the insight of the CFD model, the high
T2 (Exp.) T2 (CFD)
1400 T3 (Exp.) T3 (CFD) temperature region, intensive combustion region, low heat loss
T4 (Exp.) T4 (CFD)
1200 and suitable flow feature were understood. The ring with suitable
Temperature (K)
1000 design of burner holes is the major part of the burner to control
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flame structure. However, phenomena of heat transfer to the ves-
sel have to be clarified by the CFD modeling in the further study.
600
Moreover, improving thermal efficiency of the energy-saving
400
cooking burner should be done in the further study.
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Radial distance (r), cm
Figure 4: Temperature distribution obtained from experiment and CFD This research is financially supported by Ubon Ratchathani Uni-
model. versity.