Epaminondas Mastorakos

Predicting The Extinction Condition For Gas Turbine Combustors

Abstract Capturing flame blow-off (BO) or extinction limits early in the combustor design process is essential for ensuring reliable performance and reducing development time and cost. This study investigates the applicability of a low-order extinction prediction model based on a...

The Effects of Non-Premixed Hydrogen on Soot Formation in an Ethylene-Fuelled Laboratory-Scale Rich-Quench-Lean Combustor

Abstract This work investigates the effects of hydrogen blending on soot formation and flame structure in a laboratory-scale Rich-Quench-Lean (RQL) burner using ethylene-hydrogen mixtures (0-50 vol.% hydrogen) at constant carbon mass flow rate. Laser-induced incandescence and sin...