Spectroscopic Analysis of Combustion Flame Fueled with Dimethyl Ether (DME) 2003-01-1797
To better understand the combustion characteristics of DME, emission intensities of DME combustion radicals from a pre-mixed burner flame were measured by a spectroscope and photomultiplier, Results were compared to other fuels, such as methane and butane. Large peaks in the band spectra from pre-mixed and diffusion DME flames were found near 310 nm, 430 nm, and 515 nm, arising from OH, CH and C2, respectively. The DME emission intensities decreased with increasing the equivalence ratio in this study. Notably, the relative decrease in the C2 band spectra peak was greater than that of the OH band. Comparing the pre-mixed DME and butane flames, the butane band spectra peaks were similar in shape, but much stronger than those for DME. However, it was remarkable that CH and C2 band spectra peaks decreased only slightly with increase in equivalence ratio compared to the DME case. In case of the butane diffusion flame, there was a continuous spectrum above 430 nm, presumably due to thermal radiation of soot.
Citation: Oguma, M., Goto, S., Hatsuzawa, H., Konno, M. et al., "Spectroscopic Analysis of Combustion Flame Fueled with Dimethyl Ether (DME)," SAE Technical Paper 2003-01-1797, 2003, https://doi.org/10.4271/2003-01-1797. Download Citation