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Louisiana State University LSU Digital Commons LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses Graduate School 1988 The ombuC stion of Carbon-Tetrachloride in a High Temperature Methane-Air Flame Environment. John Samuel Morse Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_disstheses Recommended Citation Morse, John Samuel, "The ombusC tion of Carbon-Tetrachloride in a High Temperature Methane-Air Flame Environment." (1988). LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses. 4662. https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_disstheses/4662 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at LSU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses by an authorized administrator of LSU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 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University Microfilms International A Bell & Howell Information Company 3 0 0 North Z eeb Road, Ann Arbor, Ml 48106-1346 USA 313/761-4700 800/521-0600 Order Number 8917841 The combustion of carbon tetrachloride in a high temperature methane-air flat dame environment Morse, John Samuel, Ph.D. The Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical Col., 1988 Copyright ©1988 "by Morse, John Samuel. AI1 rights reserved. 300 N. Zeeb Rd. Ann Arbor, MI 48106 THE COMBUSTION OF CARBON TETRACHLORIDE IN A HIGH TEMPERATURE METHANE-AIR FLAT FLAME ENVIRONMENT A Dissertation submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in The Department of Mechanical Engineering by John Samuel Morse B.S.M.E., John Brown University, 1984 December 1988 Copyright © 1988 by John Samuel Morse PREFACE This dissertation is composed of five chapters. The first is an introduction to the subject matter and discusses the motivation for the research project. The second chapter is a comprehensive literature search on fundamental studies of chlorinated hydrocarbon combustion. The third chapter is a description of the experimental facility. It contains a paper submitted to Review of Scientific Instruments that describes one section of the experimental facility. The fourth chapter is composed of two papers that will be submitted to Combustion Science and Technology. These papers contain the experimental data and associated discussion. The chapter ends with a discussion of the net reaction rate analyses performed on the experimental data. Chapter five is a summary, containing conclusions and recommendations. This is followed by a comprehensive list of the references used. The four appendices follow the references. Appendix I describes the procedure used for net reaction rate analysis. Ap pendix II describes the algorithm utilized for calculating gas temperature in the flame from measured bead temperatures. Appendix III is a listing of the molecular transport parameters used to calculate transport properties. The molecular transport properties are used in the procedures in Appendices I and n. The fourth appendix is a discussion of the problems encountered in the net reaction rate analysis of Flame 4. The figures and tables accompanying the three journal articles are grouped at the end of each paper, according to the journal's publication guidelines. Figures and tables appearing elsewhere in the dissertation are integrated into the text. iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The author wishes to thank his major professor, Dr. Vic A. Cundy, for introducing him to hazardous waste research and for providing support and guidance throughout his time at LSU. Dr. Thomas W. Lester also provided direction and advice for the author’s research effort. A wealth of practical advice was provided by Dr. Ted Westlake and Ms. Anita Thompson of Dow Chemical Company's Louisiana Division. The author extends thanks to his coworkers in the Incineration Laboratory, without whom this research would not have been possible: Dr. Dwight W. Senser, Dr. David L. Miller, Chris Leger, A1 Montestruc, and Gary Miller. The help of a number of student workers is also much appreciated: Richard Doucet, Craig Ledet, Thomas Harkins, Robert Breaux, and Glynn Eliot Generous fellowship support for the author was provided by the Louisiana State University Alumni Federation and the Mechanical Engineering Department during his stay at LSU, and this is much appreciated. The reasearch effort was underwritten in part by the Hazardous Waste Research Center of Louisiana State University through cooperative agreements No. CR813888 and CR809714010 with the United States Environmental Protection Agency. The author wishes to especially thank his wife, Leah, for her invaluable assistance in the research effort and for her constant support and understanding during their stay at LSU. iv TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE........................................................................................................................iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS............................................................................................iv TABLE OF CONTENTS........................................................ ........................................ v LIST OF FIGURES..........................................................................................................viii LIST OF TABLES ..................................................................................................... xi ABSTRACT.....................................................................................................................xiii CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION............................................................................ 1 BACKGROUND..................................................................................................1 CURRENT INCINERATION REGULATIONS................................................2 FOCUS OF STUDY.............................................................................................7 CHOICE OF WASTE TO STUDY...................................................................... 11 CHAPTER n SURVEY OF LITERATURE ................................................................13 FLAME INHIBITION STUDIES....................................................................... 13 FLAME STUDIES...............................................................................................15 NON-FLAME STUDIES.....................................................................................22 FLOW REACTOR STUDIES................................................................2 2 SHOCK TUBE STUDIES......................................................................26 MODELING STUDIES.......................................................................................28 SCALE-UP STUDIES........................................................................................ 31 SUMMARY.........................................................................................................33 CHAPTER in EXPERIMENTAL FACILITY AND TECHNIQUES ........................ 36 CHOICE OF EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUE................... 36 DESCRIPTION OF FACILITY AND TECHNIQUES......................................39 EXPERIMENTAL FACILITY............................................................... 39 Combustion Chamber. ................................................................. 41 Burner Supply ...............................................................................42 Exhaust Gas Collection and Treatment ........................................ 44 Gas Sampling ............................................................................... 45 Temperature Collection .................................................................47 Burner Translation. ........................................................................49 Spatial Measurements ...................................................................49 Gas Analysis ......................................