Sublimation Temperature of Soot in Dependence on Particle Size and Formation Conditions (original) (raw)
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International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2006
Temperature histories of nanosecond pulsed laser heated soot particles of different primary particle size distributions were calculated using a single primary particle based heat and mass transfer model under conditions of a typical atmospheric laminar diffusion flame. The critical peak soot particle temperatures beyond which soot particle sublimation cannot be neglected were identified to be about 3300-3400 K. Knowledge of this critical soot particle temperature is required to conduct low-fluence laser-induced incandescence experiments in which soot sublimation is avoided. After the laser pulse, the temperature of smaller primary soot particles decreases faster than that of larger ones as a result of larger surface area-to-volume ratio. Unlike the common belief that the peak soot particle temperature is independent of the primary particle diameter, the numerical results indicate that this assumption is valid only when soot sublimation is negligible and for primary soot particle diameters greater than about 20 nm. The effective temperature of a soot particle ensemble having different primary particle diameters in the laser probe volume was calculated based on the ratio of the total thermal radiation intensities of soot particles at 400 and 780 nm to simulate the experimentally measured soot particle temperature using two-color optical pyrometry. In the non-sublimation regime, the initial effective temperature decay rate after the peak soot temperature is related to the Sauter mean diameter of the primary soot particle diameter distribution. At longer times, the effective temperatures of soot particle ensembles start to display different decay rates for different soot primary particle diameter distributions. A simple approach was proposed in this study to infer the two parameters of lognormal distributed primary soot particle diameter. Application of this approach was demonstrated in an atmospheric laminar ethylene diffusion flame with the inferred primary soot particle diameter distribution compared with independent ex situ measurement.
Thermal fragmentation and deactivation of combustion-generated soot particles
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The effect of thermal treatment on diesel soot and on a commercial soot in an inert environment under isothermal conditions at intermediate temperatures (400-900°C) is studied. Two important phenomena are observed in both the soot samples: soot fragmentation leading to its mass loss, and loss of soot reactivity towards O 2 . Several experimental techniques such as high resolution transmission electron microscopy, electron energy loss spectroscopy, thermo-gravimetric analysis with mass spectrometry, elemental analysis, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction have been used to identify the changes in structures, functional groups such as oxygenates and aliphatics, r and p bonding, O/C and H/C ratios, and crystallite parameters of soot particles, introduced by heat. A decrease in the size of primary particles and an increase in the average polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) size was observed in soots after thermal treatment. The activation energies of soot oxidation for thermally treated soot samples were found to be higher than those for the untreated ones at most conversion levels. The cyclic or acyclic aliphatics with sp 3 hybridization were present in significant amounts in all the soot samples, but their concentration decreased with thermal treatment. Interestingly, the H/C and the O/C ratios of soot particles increased after thermal treatment, and thus, they do not support the decrease in soot reactivity. The increase in the concentration of oxygenates on soot surface indicate that their desorption from soot surface in the form of CO, CO 2 and other oxygenated compounds may not be significant at the temperatures (400-900°C) studied in this work.
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Time-resolved laser-induced incandescence (LII) has been developed rapidly during the last decade as a useful non-intrusive technique for particle size determination. Still several parameters should be investigated in order to improve the accuracy of LII for particle sizing and the spatial distribution of the laser energy is one of these. Generally a top-hat profile is recommended, as this ensures a uniform heating of all particles in the measurement volume. As it is generally not straightforward to create a uniform beam profile, it is of interest to establish the influence of various profiles on the evaluated particle sizes. In this work we present both an experimental and a theoretical investigation of the influence of the spatial profile on evaluated sizes. All experiments were carried out using a newly developed setup for two-colour LII (2C-LII) which provides online monitoring of both the spatial and temporal profile as well as the laser pulse energy. The LII measurements were performed in a one-dimensional premixed sooting ethylene/air flame, and evaluated particle sizes from LII were compared with thermophoretically sampled soot particles analysed using transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The results show that although there is some influence of the spatial laser energy distribution on the evaluated particle sizes both in modelling and experiments, this effect is substantially smaller than the
Influence of rapid laser heating on the optical properties of in-flame soot
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Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics, 2004
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Soot particle disintegration and detection using two laserELFFS
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Nanoparticle production by UV irradiation of combustion generated soot particles
Journal of Nanoparticle Research - J NANOPART RES, 2004
Laser ablation of surfaces normally produce high temperature plasmas that are difficult to control. By irradiating small particles in the gas phase, we can better control the size and concentration of the resulting particles when different materials are photofragmented. Here, we irradiate soot with 193 nm light from an ArF excimer laser. Irradiating the original agglomerated particles at fluences ranging from 0.07 to 0.26 J/cm2 with repetition rates of 20 and 100 Hz produces a large number of small, unagglomerated particles, and a smaller number of spherical agglomerated particles. Mean particle diameters from 20 to 50 nm are produced from soot originally having a mean electric mobility diameter of 265 nm. We use a non-dimensional parameter, called the photon–atom ratio (PAR), to aid in understanding the photofragmentation process. This parameter is the ratio of the number of photons striking the soot particles to the number of the carbon atoms contained in the soot particles, and is a better metric than the laser fluence for analyzing laser–particle interactions. These results suggest that UV photofragmentation can be effective in controlling particle size and morphology, and can be a useful diagnostic for studying elements of the laser ablation process.
Nanosecond laser irradiation of soot particles: Insights on structure and optical properties
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Laser-induced Incandescence of Soot at High Pressures
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Laser-Induced Incandescence of Soot at High Pressures Sanaz Ghasemi Master of Applied Science Graduate Department of Aerospace Science and Engineering University of Toronto 2012 Measurements of soot emission properties are of interest in both fundamental research and combustion-based industries. Laser-induced incandescence of soot particles is a novel technique that allows unobtrusive measurements of both soot volume fraction and particulate size with significant advantages. An apparatus utilizing this technique has been customized and used to provide measurements of soot concentration and particle sizing of a laminar, diffusion methane/air flame at pressures of 10, 20 and 40 atm at 6 mm above the burner. Soot volume fraction measurements correlate well with literature findings at all pressures. Despite similar trends, particle size values are found to be consistently larger than values reported in literature. Discussion on the errors of laser-induced incandescence as well as recomm...