OH radical kinetics in hydrogen-air mixtures at the conditions of strong vibrational nonequilibrium

Winters, C.; Jans, E.; Eckert, Z.; Frederickson, K.; Adamovich, I.; Popov, N.

Авторы: Winters C., Jans E., Eckert Z., Frederickson K., Adamovich I., Popov N.
Журнал: Journal of Physics D - Applied Physics
Том: 50
Номер: 50
Год издания: 2017
Издательство: IOP Publishing
Местоположение издательства: [Bristol, UK], England
Первая страница: 505203
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6463/aa97b4
Аннотация: This work presents results of time-resolved, absolute measurements of OH number density, nitrogen vibrational temperature, and translational-rotational temperature in nitrogen, air, and lean hydrogen-air mixtures excited by a diffuse filament nanosecond pulse discharge, at a pressure of 100 Torr and high specific energy loading. The main objective of these measurements is to study kinetics of OH radicals at the conditions of strong vibrational excitation of nitrogen, below autoignition temperature. N2 vibrational temperature and gas temperature in the discharge and the afterglow are measured by ns broadband Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering (CARS). Hydroxyl radical number density is measured by Laser Induced Fluorescence (LIF), calibrated by Rayleigh scattering. The results show that the discharge generates strong vibrational nonequilibrium in air and H2-air mixtures for delay times after the discharge pulse of up to ~ 1 ms, with peak vibrational temperature of Tv ≈ 1900 K at T ≈ 500 K. Nitrogen vibrational temperature peaks 100-200 μs after the discharge pulse, before decreasing due to vibrational-translational relaxation by O atoms (on the time scale of several hundred μs) and diffusion (on ms time scale). OH number density increases gradually after the discharge pulse, peaking at t ~ 100-300 μs and decaying on a longer time scale, until t ~ 1 ms. Both OH rise time and decay time decrease as H2 fraction in the mixture is increased from 1% to 5%. Comparison of the experimental data with kinetic modeling predictions shows that OH kinetics is controlled primarily by reactions of H2 and O2 with O and H atoms generated during the discharge. At the present conditions, OH number density is not affected by N2 vibrational excitation directly, i.e. via vibrational energy transfer to HO2. The effect of a reaction between vibrationally excited H2 and O atoms on OH kinetics is also shown to be insignificant. As the discharge pulse coupled energy is increased, the model predicts transient OH number density overshoot due to the temperature rise caused by N2 vibrational relaxation by O atoms, which may well be a dominant effect in discharges with specific energy loading.
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