PROPANOL DROPLET FLAMMABILITY AND COMBUSTION IN AIR-DILUENT ENVIRONMENTS UNDER NORMAL AND REDUCED GRAVITY

Reduced gravity and normal gravity combustion experiments were performed with individual fiber-supported propanol droplets with initial diameters that were typically in the 1.2 to 1.3 mm range. The environment was composed of an air-inert mixture at 0.1 MPa and about 298 K, where helium, carbon dioxide and xenon were separately used as inerts. In the experiments, the amount of inert gas in the environment was progressively increased until...