Experimental Studies on Burning Characteristics of Methanol, Diesel, and Sunflower Biodiesel Fuels

The combustion of liquid fuel droplets provides fundamental information that is relevant to spray combustion. A porous sphere setup has been used to investigate non-premixed combustion experimentally with three different liquid fuels, viz. methanol, diesel, and biodiesel (sunflower oil methyl ester). Experiments have been performed at atmospheric pressure with spheres of different diameters and over a range of free stream air velocities,...