Investigation of single drop evaporation characteristics of two-component fatty acid methyl esters at high temperature

• Published in: Fuel (Guildford) Vol. 334; p. 126566
• Main Authors: Wang, X.R., Xue, Wenhua, Sun, Wenqiang, Tang, Shiting, Jiang, Genzhu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 15.02.2023
• Subjects: Cleavage and polymerization; Droplet evaporation; Micro-explosion intensity; Unsaturated fatty acid methyl esters; Micro-explosion intensity; Cleavage and polymerization; Unsaturated fatty acid methyl esters; Droplet evaporation
• ISSN: 0016-2361; 1873-7153
• DOI: 10.1016/j.fuel.2022.126566

•The mixed droplets have the same evaporation pattern in both environments.•Two dimensions of SI and MT are established to analyze the micro-explosion characteristics.•Compared with other mixed concentrations, MP20MO80 has the best evaporation characteristics.•The evaporation mechanism of MP/MO mixed droplets is proposed.•A new relationship between ambient temperature, K and SI is established by numerical fitting. To investigate the evaporation and micro-explosion characteristics of blended droplets at 773 K and 973 K ambient temperatures, methyl palmitate (MP) and methyl oleate (MO) are selected as typical fuels in this study. The MP concentration ranges from 10 % to 50 % to investigate the micro-explosion characteristics of the blended droplets. No micro-explosion that occurs during its whole lifetime when MP is pure, but the micro-explosion can be observed in all blended droplets. Interestingly, the micro-explosion intensity, average evaporation rate, micro-explosion delay time, and evaporation duration of droplet all reach the optimum value when the MP concentration is 20 % at 773 K and 973 K. The micro-explosion can be divided into three categories by intensity, namely strong micro-explosion, weak micro-explosion, and puffing. The strong micro-explosions occur at 973 K when the concentration is 20 %. It can be inferred that micro-explosion is the critical factor in shortening the evaporation duration. Cleavage reaction that occurs in the MO produced bubbles to increase the micro-exploration intensity. Meanwhile, the polymerization that carried out in the MO inhibits the evaporation with producing solid. It is observed experimentally that the residual volume caused by the polymerization decreases with increasing MP concentration. Furthermore, a new relationship is established in terms of the evaporation rate, micro-explosion intensity and ambient temperature by numerical fitting.