Generally,gaining fundamental insights into chain processes during the combustion of flame-retardant polymers relies on the qualitative and quantitative characterization of key chain carriers.However,polymer combustio...Generally,gaining fundamental insights into chain processes during the combustion of flame-retardant polymers relies on the qualitative and quantitative characterization of key chain carriers.However,polymer combustion processes based on conventional solid-fuel combustion strategies,due to the high coupling of pyrolysis,combustion,soot formation and oxidation,exhibit relatively high complexity and poor flame stability,and lead to a huge obstacle to the use of optical diagnostics.Herein,a spatial-confinement combustion strategy,which can produce a special staged flame with multi-jets secondary wave,is devised to provide a highly decoupled combustion environment.Glowing soot particles are therefore decoupled from main chemiluminescence region and confined to the flame tip to provide a well-controlled,opticalthin test environment for combustion diagnostic.Based on this strategy,a multi-nozzle-separation(MNS)burner is designed and fabricated,and the combustion processes associated with four model compounds,PVC,PS,PP/TBBA blends and PP/RP blends are investigated by spontaneous spectral diagnosis,and the chemiluminescence fingerprint of key diatomic/triatomic intermediates(such as OH,CH,C_(2),ClO,Br_(2),and PHO)are clearly observed.This encouraging result means that the strategy of spatial-confinement combustion we proposed shows promising prospect in many subjects associated with combustion chain regulation,such as efficient design of flame retardants.展开更多
Photodegradation of benzene at ppb levels by mixed-phase TiO2 nanoparticles, synthesized by the oxidation of TiCl4 in propane/air turbulent flame chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process, is investigated experimental...Photodegradation of benzene at ppb levels by mixed-phase TiO2 nanoparticles, synthesized by the oxidation of TiCl4 in propane/air turbulent flame chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process, is investigated experimentally by using a tubular photoreactor with thin TiO2 films coated on the reactor wall by sedimentation. Effects of inlet benzene concentration from 10 to 300μg/m3, rutile mass fraction from about 20 to 50% and photoluminescence (PL) intensity of TiO2 nanoparticles on degradation degree are examined under the conditions of 70% relative humidity, 38 μg/cm2 catalyst loading, 24mW/cm2 UV irradiation of 254 nm and 5.7 s residence time in the reactor. Based on experimental results, separation of photoinduced electron (e-) and hole (h+) pairs by rutile phase is discussed as photo-induced electron (e-) in anatase phase will migrate to rutile surface due to that the potential of conductive band of rutile is lower than that of anatase, leading to more holes ready on anatase surface for oxidation reactions.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.51827803)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities,111 Center(No.B20001)Institutional Research Fund from Sichuan University(No.2021SCUNL201).
文摘Generally,gaining fundamental insights into chain processes during the combustion of flame-retardant polymers relies on the qualitative and quantitative characterization of key chain carriers.However,polymer combustion processes based on conventional solid-fuel combustion strategies,due to the high coupling of pyrolysis,combustion,soot formation and oxidation,exhibit relatively high complexity and poor flame stability,and lead to a huge obstacle to the use of optical diagnostics.Herein,a spatial-confinement combustion strategy,which can produce a special staged flame with multi-jets secondary wave,is devised to provide a highly decoupled combustion environment.Glowing soot particles are therefore decoupled from main chemiluminescence region and confined to the flame tip to provide a well-controlled,opticalthin test environment for combustion diagnostic.Based on this strategy,a multi-nozzle-separation(MNS)burner is designed and fabricated,and the combustion processes associated with four model compounds,PVC,PS,PP/TBBA blends and PP/RP blends are investigated by spontaneous spectral diagnosis,and the chemiluminescence fingerprint of key diatomic/triatomic intermediates(such as OH,CH,C_(2),ClO,Br_(2),and PHO)are clearly observed.This encouraging result means that the strategy of spatial-confinement combustion we proposed shows promising prospect in many subjects associated with combustion chain regulation,such as efficient design of flame retardants.
基金The authors are grateful for a research grant from Shanghai Education Committee (07ZZ180)a fund from the Second Shanghai Key Discipline Construction Plan of Shanghai Municipal EducationCommission (P1701)
文摘Photodegradation of benzene at ppb levels by mixed-phase TiO2 nanoparticles, synthesized by the oxidation of TiCl4 in propane/air turbulent flame chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process, is investigated experimentally by using a tubular photoreactor with thin TiO2 films coated on the reactor wall by sedimentation. Effects of inlet benzene concentration from 10 to 300μg/m3, rutile mass fraction from about 20 to 50% and photoluminescence (PL) intensity of TiO2 nanoparticles on degradation degree are examined under the conditions of 70% relative humidity, 38 μg/cm2 catalyst loading, 24mW/cm2 UV irradiation of 254 nm and 5.7 s residence time in the reactor. Based on experimental results, separation of photoinduced electron (e-) and hole (h+) pairs by rutile phase is discussed as photo-induced electron (e-) in anatase phase will migrate to rutile surface due to that the potential of conductive band of rutile is lower than that of anatase, leading to more holes ready on anatase surface for oxidation reactions.