Passive control of thermoacoustic instability in a high-efficiency domestic gas stove with fine-tuning burner

Abstract

Thermoacoustic oscillation is a significant challenge in the development of advanced thermal power and propulsion systems. The present work focuses on the whistling phenomenon in the practical burners of a developing high-efficiency domestic gas stove. The acoustic analysis is conducted by a Helmholtz acoustic solver, identifying the 1/2 wave longitudinal mode in the outer ring or center nozzle and its upstream pipe and estimating the modal eigenfrequencies fa=599Hz and fb=647Hz which are close to the main frequency of the whistling measured in experiments. The sequential flame images captured by a high-speed camera are processed by a dynamic mode decomposition method to illustrate flame structure oscillations at the peak frequency mode. The results verify that thermoacoustic oscillations are the generation mechanism of the whistling and display the periodic fluctuation characteristics of the flame and the spatial distribution of heat release. Moreover, both structural fine-tuning designs help to achieve better suppression for thermoacoustic oscillations and avoid the whistling phenomenon. These structural fine-tuning strategies have been researched for several decades but rarely reported to be applied to industrial burners in previous work. Motivated by this, it will provide a new insight into the investigation of burner structures on thermoacoustic behaviors and the application of these passive control strategies.

Keywords

• Passive control
• Thermoacoustic instability
• High-efficiency domestic gas stove
• Structural fine-tuning strategy