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Experimental Study on Double Jet Flames with Different Nozzle Diameters

Zilong Rui 
Kuibin Zhou 
Ruixing Dong 
Xia Shi 
Keywords: Double flames; Merging behavior; Flame height.

Abstract

Double jet flames are commonly observed in the energy industry. A facility consisting of a double jet flames apparatus, was designed to experimentally simulate the interaction of double jet fires with different spaces and nozzle diameters. It has been found that the exit momentum, nozzle diameters and nozzle spacing significantly affect the flame behavior. The experimental results show that the flame merging probability (Pm) of double jet fires with different nozzle diameters can be fitted with dimensionless parameters that couple the Froude number(Fr) and the distance between fire sources. Additionally, it has been observed that the difference in height between the two flames can be used as a parameter to determine the correlation between flame height and the distance to the nozzle center.