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Ignition of Aerosolized Reactive Particles at High Heating Rates

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2011

Salil Mohan ,
Yuriy L Shoshin  and
Edward L Dreizin
Salil Mohan
Affiliation:
sm82@njit.edu, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Mechanical Engineering, 138 Warren St., Newark, New Jersey, 07104, United States, 973-596-5855
Yuriy L Shoshin
Affiliation:
shoshin@ADM.njit.edu, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Mechanical Engineering, United States
Edward L Dreizin
Affiliation:
dreyzin@njit.edu, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Mechanical Engineering, United States
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Abstract

This paper presents an experimental methodology, respective heat transfer model, and initial results describing ignition of rapidly heated, aerosolized powders of different materials. The experimental setup uses a CO2 laser as a heat source. The interaction of the laser beam with particles is particle size-dependent and only a narrow range of particle sizes is heated effectively. Therefore, the heat transfer model needs to be only analyzed for the particles with this specific size, which greatly simplifies the interpretation of experiments. The powder is aerosolized inside a plate capacitor by charging particles contacting the capacitor’s electrodes. A thin, laminar aerosol jet is carried out by an oxidizing gas through a small opening in the top electrode and is fed into a laser beam. The velocities of particles in the jet are about 1 m/s. The laser power is increased until the particles are observed to ignite. The ignition is detected optically. The ignition thresholds for spherical magnesium and aluminum powders were measured. The experimental data for magnesium, for which ignition kinetics is well known, were used to calibrate the detailed heat transfer model. The model was used to evaluate the ignition kinetics for aluminum powder.

Keywords

laserpowdermetal
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Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 896: Symposium H – Multifunctional Energetic Materials , 2005 , 0896-H04-03
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2006

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