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COBEM 2017
24th ABCM International Congress of Mechanical Engineering
Design of a reactor for the analysis of combustion in a reactive porous medium
Submission Author:
Lucas Henrique Pagoto Deoclecio , ES , Brazil
Co-Authors:
Filipe Arthur Firmino Monhol, Daniel Ribeiro, Lucas Henrique Pagoto Deoclecio
Presenter: Lucas Henrique Pagoto Deoclecio
doi://10.26678/ABCM.COBEM2017.COB17-0903
Abstract
Heavy oils and solid biomass are important sources of energy. In addition, heavy oil reservoirs and solid biomass burning reactors are composed of reactive porous media. Thus, the understanding of the combustion front propagation phenomena in these media, either for oil recovery or biomass combustion efficiency, is of interest from the energetic point of view. This way, the aim of the present work was to develop, by means of a thermal model, a thermally insulated combustion reactor to allow future studies about the in-situ combustion process in a laboratory scale. The design and construction of the reactor was based on principles of heat transfer, fluid mechanics, combustion, material selection and manufacturing. For this, it was based on literature in which similar devices were used. The reactor is composed of suitable materials for its thermal and mechanical requirements and it has the necessary instrumentation to carry out the small-scale in-situ combustion process. In order to verify the effectiveness of the equipment, a test was carried out in which the behavior of the materials to the imposed thermal regime, sealing and thermal insulation efficiency were verified. The results indicate that a satisfactory study of the process is possible, allowing a convincing perception of the variables that influence the stability, velocity of flame propagation and other in-situ combustion parameters.
Keywords
Combustion reactor, In-situ combustion, reactive porous medium, Solid fuel
