Experimental study of the stability of a flame in an aircraft combsution chamber by burnt gas recirculation and the addition of hydrogen
Environmental standards on aircraff NOx emissions are strict. Technics for reducing them have drawbacks. Two options are explored in this study to supress them. The first one is to fundamentally change the current combustion chamber architecture, to stabilize them by a cavity, the second, to dope fuel at idle.Little information on the mechanisms of stabilization and on the flame structure on Trapped Vortex Combustor is available. To remedy this, a TVC is built. The stabilizing ans destabilizing parameters are pointed out by the cold flow investigation and the temporally resolved study of the combustion. The impact of the flame structure on pollutant emissions is also considered.The second part of this stud, deals with the addition of pure hydrogen an of reformer gas in a conventional combustuion chamber. Despite a slight increase in NOx emissions, the addition of hydrogenated compounds reduces drastically CO emissions, increases the flame stability and reduces the LBO limit.