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Journal Articles Combustion and Flame Year : 2024

New experimental method for the simultaneous determination of concentration and size profiles of condensed combustion products around a burning aluminum droplet

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When an aluminum particle burns in the diffusive regime, a cloud of nanometric particles of its primary oxide, alumina, is formed around the droplet. Characterizing this oxide smoke surrounding a burning aluminum droplet is essential. The original contribution of this paper is to introduce an experimental approach that allows for simultaneous size and concentration measurement of the particles composing the oxide smoke. This paper employs an electrodynamic levitator to facilitate the self-sustained combustion of an isolated aluminum particle, with a radius of 35 μm, in atmospheric air. This levitation apparatus is paired with an optical setup that allows for a multi-spectral light extinction method. This technique is specifically designed to measure the size and concentration of alumina particles below the micrometric scale, which is scarcely documented in existing literature. Consequently, spatially resolved concentration and size profiles of the nanometric alumina particles are measured and compared to simulated data from the literature. The radii of alumina particles in the cloud are found to evolve closely around 80 nm. Volume fractions are evaluated from 2.8 ⋅ 10−4 near the particle surface to 3 ⋅ 10−5 further in the cloud. Therefore, significant concentrations of alumina particles are revealed during the short (15 to 20 ms) combustion process at distances of the order of magnitude of a few initial particle diameters. Such characterization could then lead to a better assessment of the interaction distance among aluminum particles as they burn collectively.
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hal-04666690 , version 1 (02-08-2024)

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Hugo Keck, Christian Chauveau, Guillaume Legros, Stany Gallier, Fabien Halter. New experimental method for the simultaneous determination of concentration and size profiles of condensed combustion products around a burning aluminum droplet. Combustion and Flame, 2024, 268, pp.113616. ⟨10.1016/j.combustflame.2024.113616⟩. ⟨hal-04666690⟩
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