2011 FALL TECHNICAL MEETING WESTERN STATES SECTIONS OF THE COMBUSTION INSTITUTE Hosted by University of California, Riverside Monday, 17 October 2011 7:30 8:15: 8:30: Registration Welcome Address: Dean Reza Abbaschian (Highlander Union Building [HUB] 302S) Opening Remarks: Dr. Chris Shaddix, Sandia National Laboratories, WSS Chair 8:45: Invited Presentation: Prof. Harvey Blanch, University of California, Berkeley Title: Conversion of biomass to biofuels: A historical, economic, and technical perspective Session Chair: Chris Shaddix 9:45: Announcements: Heejung Jung, University of California, Riverside Break Session 1A: IC Engines Room: HUB 302N Session Chair: Judi Steciak 10:00 Session 1C: Turbulent Flames Room: HUB 367 Session Chair: Kal Seshadri 11F-06 A TWO-EQUATION MODEL FOR 11F-11 CHEMICAL KINETIC UNCERTAINTY HYDROGEN COMBUSTION IN LEAN PREMIXED LAMINAR FLAMES QUANTIFICATION FOR LARGE EDDY SIMULATION OF TURBULENT NON-PREMIXED COMBUSTION Justin M. Legg, Adrian A. Narvaez, Vincent G. McDonell University of California, Irvine J.D. Regele, R. M’evel, S. Bane, G. Blanquart California Institute of Technology Michael E. Mueller1, Gianluca Iaccarino1, Heinz Pitsch1,2 1 Stanford University 2RWTH Aachen University 11F-02 FLASHBACK CHARACTERISTICS IN A 11F-07 LAMINAR FLAME SPEEDS OF MIXTURES OF AIR WITH C1-C2 HYDROCARBONS 11F-12 DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF COMPRESSIBLE TURBULENT MIXING LAYER WITH FINITE-RATE CHEMISTRY 11F-01 PERFORMANCE OF ALTERNATIVE LIQUID FUELS IN A SWIRL-STABILIZED RESEARCH COMBUSTOR 10:20 Session 1B: Laminar Flames Room: HUB 302S Session Chair: Derek Dunn-Rankin COMMERCIAL GAS TURBINE OPERATING ON HYDROGEN CONTAINING FUELS David Page, Brendan Shaffer, Vincent G. McDonell University of California, Irvine Okjoo Park1, Peter S. Veloo2, Fokion N. Egolfopoulos1 1 University of Southern California 2 Princeton University Amirreza Saghafian, Heinz Pitsch Stanford University Session 1A: IC Engines Room: HUB 302N Session Chair: Judi Steciak 11F-03 INFLUENCE OF FUEL COMPOSITION ON 10:4 FLASHBACK IN A JET FLAME Zhixuan Duan, Brendan Shaffer, Vincent G. McDonell University of California, Irvine 11:00 11F-04 ASSESSMENT OF RANS SIMULATIONS OF HYDROGEN/AIR MIXING IN SWIRLING AND NON-SWIRLING FLOWS IN MODEL PREMIXERS AT STANDARD AND ELEVATED CONDITIONS Amin Akbair, Vincent G. McDonell, Scott Samuelsen University of California, Irvine 11:20 11:40 13:00 11F-05 EVALUATION OF A RICH BURN, QUICK MIX, LEAN BURN COMBUSTION SYSTEM Session 1B: Laminar Flames Room: HUB 302S Session Chair: Derek Dunn-Rankin Session 1C: Turbulent Flames Room: HUB 367 Session Chair: Kal Seshadri 11F-08 IGNITION OF NON-PREMIXED CYCLOHEXANE AND MONO-ALKYLATED CYCLOHEXANE FLAMES 11F-13 PREDICTING LIFT-OFF HEIGHT IN TURBULENT LIFTED FLAMES USING STOCHASTIC FLAMELETS Ning Liu, Fokion Egolfopoulos University of Southern California Emmet Cleary, Guillaume Blanquart California Institute of Technology 11F-09 THE EFFECTS OF MIXTURE FRACTION ON EDGE FLAME PROPAGATION SPEED 11F-14 ANALYSIS OF FLAME PROPAGATION AND AUTOIGNITION FOR A LIFTED NITROGENDILUTED HYDROGEN TURBULENT JET FLAME IN A VITIATED COFLOW Hatsachai Prahanphap, Jesse Piotrowicz, Paul D. Ronney University of Southern California OPERATED IN A VITIATED AIR STREAM 11F-10 AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF SPHERICALLY EXPANDING FLAMES AND THE DETERMINATION OF LAMINAR FLAME SPEEDS Elliot Sullivan-Lewis, Richard L. Hack. Vincent G. McDonell University of California, Irvine K. Eisazadeh-Far, B.C. Windom, J. Jayachandran, A. Fincham, F.N. Egolfopoulos University of Southern California Don Frederick1, Andrew North1, Jyh-Yuan Chen1, Robert Dibble1, Andrea Gruber2 1 University of California, Berkeley 2SINTEF Energy LUNCH—On your own Invited Presentation: Dr. Alberto Ayala, California Air Resources Board Title: Prospects for ultralow particle emissions and the enabling control technologies for engines and vehicles Session Chair: Heejung Jung Room: HUB 302S Session 2A: IC Engines Room: HUB 302N Session Chair: Vince McDonell 14:00 11F-15 EFFECTS OF FUEL PROPERTIES ON AUTOIGNITION IN HCCI ENGINES Vi Rapp1, William Cannella2, Tyler Dillstrom1, J.-Y. Chen1, Robert Dibble1 1 University of California, Berkeley 2 Chevron Corporation 14:20 PRESSURES 1 1 2 Robert R. Burrell , Okjoo Park , P.S. Veloo , Fokion N. Egolfopoulos1 1 University of Southern California 2 Princeton University 11F-22 EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF WATERLADEN FUEL MIXTURES BURNING IN A NON- Jyh-Yuan Chen, Anthony DeFilippo, Gregory T. Chin, Wolfgang Hable University of California, Berkeley PREMIXED COUNTERFLOW CONFIGURATION EXTENSION OF THE STABLE OPERATING RANGE OF A WET-ETHANOL-FUELED ENGINE USING A MICROWAVE-ASSISTED SPARK PLUG Anthony DeFilippo1, Benjamin Wolk1, Jyh-Yuan Chen1, Robert Dibble1, Ahsa Moon2, Atsushi Nishiyama2, Yuji Ikeda2 1 University of California, Berkeley 2 Imagineering, Inc. 15:00 11F-21 FLAME PROPAGATION OF N-BUTANOL/O2/N2 MIXTURES AT ELEVATED 11F-16 MODELING EFFECTS OF MIXED ALCOHOLS ON IC ENGINE PERFORMANCES 11F-17 A MULTI-PARAMETER STUDY OF THE 14:40 Session 2B: Laminar Flames Room: HUB 302S Session Chair: Fokion Egolfopoulos Rosa Padilla1, Daniel Jaimes1, Trinh Pham2, Derek Dunn-Rankin1 1 University of California, Irvine 2 California State University, Los Angeles 11F-23 A NUMERICAL EVALUATION OF PREHEATED FLAT FLAMES AT ULTRA-LEAN CONDITIONS Joseph Gibson, Ingmar Schoegl Louisiana State University Session 2C: New Technology Room: HUB 367 Session Chair: Robert Dibble 11F-27 SWIRL VANE DESIGN FOR MINIATURE FUEL FILM COMBUSTOR Claudio Giani1, Derek Dunn-Rankin2, John Garman2 1 Politecnico di Milano 2 University of California, Irvine 11F-28 IMPACT OF OPERATING CONDITIONS ON SYNGAS PRODUCTION FROM HYDROCARBON FUELS IN THE COUNTER-FLOW REACTOR Erica L. Belmont, Sam M. Solomon, Janet L. Ellzey University of Texas at Austin 11F-29 EFFECT OF PREHEATING ON RICH COMBUSTION FOR SYNGAS PRODUCTION: EXPERIMENTS AND MODELING OF BURNERSTABILIZED FLAMES Colin H. Smith, Daniel I. Pineda, Janet L. Ellzey University of Texas at Austin 11F-18 INVESTIGATION OF WET ETHANOL COMBUSTION IN A HCCI ENGINE USING AN 11F-24 HOT-SURFACE IGNITION AND FLAME PROPAGATION 11F-30 SCALE ANALYSIS OF HEATRECIRCULATING COMBUSTORS EXHAUST GAS HEAT EXCHANGER Philipp A. Boettcher1, Joseph E. Shepherd1, Shyam K. Menon1, Guillaume Blanquart1, B.L. Ventura2 1 California Institute of Technology 2 Georgia Institute of Technology Chien-Hua Chen, Paul D. Ronney University of Southern California 1 2 Silvan Schneider , Samveg Saxena , Martin Krieck1, David Vuilleumier1, Ulrich Maas1, Robert Dibble2 1 University of Karlsruhe 2 University of California, Berkeley Session 2A: IC Engines Room: HUB 302N Session Chair: Vince McDonell 15:20 15:40 11F-19 UNDERSTANDING DIESEL ENGINE FUEL INJECTION PHENOMENA USING A REAL-FLUID THERMODYNAMIC MIXTURE PROPERTY MODEL 11F-25 ENTHALPY BASED MODELING OF HOTSURFACE IGNITION AND FLAME PROPAGATION Rainer N. Dahms, Lyle M. Pickett, Joseph C. Oefelein Sandia National Laboratories Shyam K. Menon, Philipp A. Boettcher, Guillaume Blanquart California Institute of Technology 11F-20 STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF SPARK IGNITION OF KEROSENE-AIR MIXTURES 11F-26 A COUNTERFLOW DIFFUSION FLAME STUDY OF LIGHTLY METHYLATED ALKANES Stephanie A. Coronel1, Sally P.M. Bane2, Philipp A. Boettcher1, Joseph E. Shepherd1 1 California Institute of Technology 2 Purdue University S.M. Sarathy1, C.K. Westbrook1, C. Yeung2, U. Niemann3, M. Plomer4, Z. Luo4, M. Mehl1, W.J. Pitz1, K. Seshadri4, M.J. Thomson2, T. Lu4 1 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 2 University of Toronto 3 University of California, San Diego 4 University of Connecticut 16:00 Session 2C: New Technology Room: HUB 367 Session Chair: Robert Dibble 11F-31 MULTIPHYSICS MODELING OF COAL GASIFICATION PROCESSES IN A WELL-STIRRED REACTOR WITH DETAILED GAS-PHASE CHEMISTRY Li Qiao, Jian Xu, Jay Gore Purdue University BREAK Session 3A: IC Engines and Soot Room: HUB 302N Session Chair: Jerry Cole 11F-32 GASOLINE SURROGATE MODELING OF 16:20 Session 2B: Laminar Flames Room: HUB 302S Session Chair: Fokion Egolfopoulos GASOLINE IGNITION IN A RAPID COMPRESSION MACHINE AND COMPARISON TO EXPERIMENTS Marco Mehl1, Goutham Kukkadapu2, Kamal Kumar2, S.M. Sarathy1, William J. Pitz1, C.J. Sung2 1 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 2 University of Connecticut Session 3B: Laminar Flames, Detonations, Diagnostics Room: HUB 302S Session Chair: John Daily 11F-37 OBSERVATIONS OF PERIODIC OSCILLATORY BEHAVIOR IN FLOW RATES OF LABORATORY SYRINGE PUMPS AND PROPOSED REMEDIES Ferran Marti, John Garman, Kasra Kakavand, Kamil Samaan University of California, Irvine Session 3C: New Technology Room: HUB 367 Session Chair: Paul Ronney 11F-42 ENHANCED EVAPORATION OF NANOFLUIDS BY RADIATION ABSORPTION OF NANOPARTICLES Yanan Gan, Li Qiao Purdue University Session 3A: IC Engines and Soot Room: HUB 302N Session Chair: Jerry Cole 16:40 11F-33 INVESTIGATION OF SOLID PARTICLE NUMBER MEASUREMENT: EXISTENCE AND NATURE OF SUB 23 NM PARTICLES UNDER PMP METHODOLOGY Zhongqing Zheng1, Kent C. Johnson1, Thomas D. Durbin1, Shaohua Hu2, Tao Huai2, David B. Kittelson3, Heejung S. Jung1 1 University of California, Riverside 2 California Air Resources Board 3 University of Minnesota 17:00 17:20 17:40 Room: HUB 302S Session Chair: John Daily 11F-38 SUPERSONIC HYDROGEN COMBUSTION AND FLAME HOLDING Sara Esparza, Benjamin Lui, Cesar Olmedo, Alonzo Perez, Helen Boussalis, Darrell Guillaume California State University, Los Angeles Session 3C: New Technology Room: HUB 367 Session Chair: Paul Ronney 11F-43 COMBUSTION OF NANOFLUID FUELS WITH THE ADDITION OF BORON AND IRON PARTICLES AT DILUTE AND DENSE CONCENTRATIONS Yanan Gan, Yi Syuen Lim, Li Qiao Purdue University 11F-34 COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT OF THE EMISSIONS FROM THE USE OF BIODIESEL IN CALIFORNIA 11F-39 EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION INTO SHOCK WAVE BOUNDARY LAYER INTERACTION BEHIND DETONATION WAVES 11F-44 BASIC EXPLORATIONS OF LIMITS OF MICROWAVE ASSISTED SPARK PLUG IN CONSTANT VOLUME COMBUSTION CHAMBER Maryam Hajbabaei1, Kent C. Johnson1, Robert Okamoto2, Thomas D. Durbin1 1 University of California, Riverside 2 California Air Resources Board Joseph Shepherd, Jeff Odell, Jason Damazo California Institute of Technology Benjamin Wolk1, Anthony DeFilippo1, Jyh-Yuan Chen1, Robert Dibble1, Atsushi Nishiyama2, Yuji Ikeda2 1 University of California, Berkeley 2 Imagineering, Inc. 11F-35 ASSESSMENT OF THE EMISSIONS FROM THE USE OF CALIFORNIA AIR RESOURCES BOARD QUALIFIED DIESEL FUELS IN COMPARISON WITH FEDERAL DIESEL FUELS 11F-40 SIMULATION BASED TOMOGRAPHIC 11F-45 VALIDATION OF THE SIERRA/FUEGO RECONSTRUCTION OF COMBUSTION ZONES USING DIRECT ABSORPTION AND WMS-2F SPECTROSCOPY CODE IN A SOLID ROCKET PROPELLANT FIRE SCENARIO Maryam Hajbabaei1, Kent Johnson1, Jim Guthrie2, Thomas D. Durbin1 1 University of California, Riverside 2 California Air Resources Board Avishek Guha, Ingmar Schoegl Louisiana State University 11F-36 OPTIMIZATION OF SNCR NOX CONTROL ON A WOOD-FIRED BOILER 11F-41 TOMOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS OF QUANTUM CASCADE LASER ABSORPTION BY CARBON MONOXIDE John T. Pisano1, Lawrence J. Muzio2, Thomas D. Durbin1, Georgios Karavalakis1, Ron Gaston3, Tim Sonnichsen4 1 University of California, Riverside 2 Fossil Energy Research Corp 3 Sierra Pacific Industries 4 Sonnichsen Engineering 18:00 Session 3B: Laminar Flames, Detonations, Diagnostics Yu-Chien Chien, John Garman, Derek Dunn-Rankin University of California, Irvine RECEPTION—HUB 302S Allen J. Ricks Sandia National Laboratories Tuesday, 18 October 2011 8:00 8:45 9:00 10:00 Registration Opening Remarks: (Highlander Union Building [HUB] 302S Invited Lecture: Prof. Forman A. Williams, University of California, San Diego Title: Short chemical mechanisms in combustion Session Chair: John Daily Break Session 4A: Heterogeneous Combustion Room: HUB 302N Session Chair: Jason Porter 10:15 11F-46 ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS OF COMBUSTION OF SOOT DEPOSITED OVER AN INERT POROUS MEDIA Nepal C. Roy, Yuji Nakamura Hokkaido University 10:35 11F-47 MEASURING IGNITION TEMPERATURES OF METHANE IN OXYGEN-NITROGEN MIXTURES ON PLATINUM 1 1 1 Duane Elgan , Judi Steciak , Ralph Budwig , Steve Beyerlein2 1 University of Idaho at Boise 2 University of Idaho at Moscow 10:55 11F-48 ENTRAINED FLOW REACTOR CHARACTERIZATION OF PULVERIZED COAL COMBUSTION 1 1 Mazdak Kebria , Derek Dunn-Rankin , Jeremie Descours2, John Garman1, Larry Swanson3 1 University of California, Irvine 2 ENSMA 3GE Energy Session 4B: Fire Research Room: HUB 367 Session Chair: Fletcher Miller Session 4C: Reaction Kinetics Room: HUB 379 Session Chair: 11F-50 EFFECTS OF INCLINATION ON UPWARD FLAME SPREAD 11F-55 EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF BIOMASS PYROLYSIS IN AN ENTRAINED FLOW REACTOR Michael J. Gollner1, Xinyan Huang1, Ali S. Rangwala2, Forman A. Williams1 1 University of California, San Diego 2 Worcester Polytechnic Institute Shawn Maghzi, George Rizeq General Electric Company 11F-51 FLAME SPREAD THROUGH VERTICAL 11F-56 AN EXPERIMENTAL AND KINETIC MODELING STUDY OF THE OXIDATION OF PROPANAL, N-BUTANAL, AND ISO-BUTANAL MATCHSTICK ARRAYS Michael J. Gollner1, Yanxuan Xie2, Minkyu Lee2, Yuji Nakamura3, Ali S. Rangwala2 1 University of California, San Diego 2 Worcester Polytechnic Institute 3 Hokkaido University Peter Veloo1, Casimir Togbé2, Philippe Dagaut2, Guillaume Dayma2, S. Mani Sarathy3, Charles Westbrook3, Fokion Egolfopoulos4 1 Princeton University 2CNRS/LCSR 3 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 4 University of Southern California 11F-52 AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON IGNITION OF ELECTRICAL WIRE 11F-57 STUDIES OF THE OXIDATION Xinyan Huang1, Yuji Nakamura2, Forman A. Williams1 1 University of California, San Diego 2 Hokkaido University S.M. Sarathy1, C. Togbé2, C.K. Westbrook1, C. Ji3, P.S. Veloo4, F. Karzenty2, G. Dayma2, P. Dagaut2, M. Mehl1, W.J. Pitz1, F.N. Egolfopoulos3 1 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 2 CNRS Orleans 3University of Southern California 4 Princeton University CHEMISTRY OF LIGHTLY BRANCHED ALKANES Session 4A: Heterogeneous Combustion Room: HUB 302N Session Chair: Jason Porter 11:15 Session 4B: Fire Research Room: HUB 367 Session Chair: Fletcher Miller 11F-49 DIRECT MEASUREMENT OF HIGHTEMPERATURE CO2 GASIFICATION RATE OF PULVERIZED COAL CHARS AT 1 ATM 11F-53 CHARACTERIZING THE NARROW CHANNEL APPARATUS AS A NASA STANDARD MATERIAL FLAMMABILITY TEST 11F-58 MECHANISTIC STUDY OF BENZYL RADICAL BY FLASH PYROLYSIS OF C6H5CH2CL AND C6H5CD2CL Manfred Geier, Daehee Kim, Christopher R. Shaddix Sandia National Laboratories Jacob M. Pepper, Fletcher J. Miller San Diego State University, San Diego Jessy Lemieux, Jingsong Zhang University of California, Riverside 11F-54 A NOVEL FLAME SPREAD APPARATUS FOR STABILIZING A SPREADING FLAME BY CONTROLLING THE FUEL MOTION 11F-59 COMBUSTION OF METHANE HYDRATE 11:35 Subrata Bhattacharjee, Takeshi Nagata, Gaurav Patel, Nehal Dalal, Wynn Tran San Diego State University 11:55 LUNCH Session 5A: Soot Room: HUB 302N Session Chair: Chris Shaddix 13:30 11F-60 THERMAL DECOMPOSITION OF PHENANTHRENE OXYRADICALS David E. Edwards1,2, Xiaoqing You1, Dmitry Y. Zubarev1, William A. Lester, Jr.1,2, Michael Frenklach1,2 1 University of California, Berkeley 2 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 13:50 Session 4C: Reaction Kinetics Room: HUB 379 Session Chair: 11F-61 SOOT OXIDATION EXPERIMENTAL KINETICS: COMPARISON OF EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES Isabel C. Jaramillo, Joseph Levinthal, C.A. Echavarria, JoAnn Lighty University of Utah Session 5B: Fire Research Room: HUB 367 Session Chair: Christopher Paolini 11F-65 A REMOTE CONTROLLED AUTOMATED EXPERIMENTAL APPARATUS FOR REAL-TIME FLAME SPREAD MEASUREMENT Christopher Paolini, Wynn Tran, Matthew Parker, Fletcher Miller, Subrata Bhattacharjee San Diego State University 11F-66 NUMERICAL MODELING OF CELLULOSE COMBUSTION IN A NARROW CHANNEL APPARATUS THAT SIMULATES MICROGRAVITY FLOW CONDITIONS Derrick Martinez, Fletcher J. Miller San Diego State University Melika Roshandell, David Chaing, Serah Gutman, Peter Taborek, Derek Dunn-Rankin University of California, Irvine Session 5A: Soot Room: HUB 302N Session Chair: Chris Shaddix 11F-62 WILL BLACK CARBON INFLUENCE 14:10 14:30 WATER AND BUTANOL BASED CONDENSATIONAL PARTICLE COUNTS? REAL-TIME PARTICLE MEASUREMENTS FROM 1–710 PROPERTIES OF PHOTOCHEMICALLY AGED WOOD SMOKE Michael Giordano, Daniel Short, Ehsan Hosseini, David Cocker, Akua Asa-Awuku University of California, Riverside 11F-63 CHARACTERIZATION OF PM-PEMS FOR IN-USE MEASUREMENTS—VALIDATION TESTING FOR THE PM-PEMS MEASUREMENT 11F-68 FLAME SPREAD ACROSS TRIOXANE IN A 1 1 Mohammad Yusuf Khan , Kent C. Johnson , Thomas D. Durbin1, Heejung Jung1, David R. Cocker III1, Dipak Bishnu2, Robert Giannelli3 1 University of California, Riverside 2 California Air Resources Board 3 US Environmental Protection Agency 15:10 11F-67 SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN CLOUD CONDENSATION NUCLEI (CCN) Daniel Short1, Michael Giordano1, Yifang Zhang2, Phillip Fine3, Andrea Polidori3, Akua Asa-Awuku1 1 University of California, Riverside 2 University of California, Los Angeles 3 South Coast Air Quality Management District ALLOWANCE PROGRAM 14:50 Session 5B: Fire Research Room: HUB 367 Session Chair: Christopher Paolini NARROW CHANNEL APPARATUS SIMULATING MICROGRAVITY FLOW CONDITIONS Karen W. Hung1, Sandra L. Olson2, Fletcher J. Miller1 1 San Diego State University 2 NASA Glen Research Center 11F-64 UNVEILING A LABORATORY SCALE GASIFIER OPERATING AT HIGH PRESSURE AND TEMPERATURE 11F-69 EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS OF PULVERIZED COAL CHAR REACTIONS WITH OXYGEN, CARBON DIOXIDE AND STEAM Micah Jakulewicz, Jason Porter, Chris Dreyer, Terence Parker Colorado School of Mines Ethan S. Hecht1, JoAnn S. Lighty1, Christopher R. Shaddix2 1 University of Utah 2Sandia National Laboratories ADJOURN- See you at the next meeting at Arizona State University in March, 2012