Flame stability and combustion characteristics of liquid fuel in a meso-scale burner with porous media

To overcome difficulties of complete evaporation and mixing of liquid fuel in limited resident time and space, a self-evaporation meso-scale burner is proposed. Combustion characteristics at various inlet conditions are experimentally investigated. Results show that liquid n-heptane can be evaporated completely in porous media without external heating. Porous media temperature near fuel outlet is closely related to flame stability and...