Fundamental and Experimental Studies on the Catalytic Combustion of Methane. Annual Report, July 1, 1992-December 31, 1993

摘要

The overall objective of this project is to obtain and use fundamental experimental data on surface reactivity to model real catalytic combustors. This objective is being approached by focusing on two experimental areas (1) the effect of surface reactivity on heat and mass transfer and (2) the characterization of the surface reactivity of natural gas on supported metal catalysts. Modeling work focuses on the development of a full 2-D transport model with detailed chemistry to describe systems where a fully developed boundary layer is not achieved and exploring possible simplified models for incorporation into turbulent reacting flow codes. The different components of the project are interrelated in that the experimental objective is to provide both chemical and transport boundary conditions for the model.