Experimental study on the minimum ignition energy of methane at low temperature

ZHAO Xiangyu; LI Hongbo; LI Zili; CUI Gan; FU Yang

doi:10.11883/bzycj-2016-0218

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ZHAO Xiangyu, LI Hongbo, LI Zili, CUI Gan, FU Yang. Experimental study on the minimum ignition energy of methane at low temperature[J]. Explosion And Shock Waves, 2018, 38(2): 353-358. doi: 10.11883/bzycj-2016-0218

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ZHAO Xiangyu, LI Hongbo, LI Zili, CUI Gan, FU Yang. Experimental study on the minimum ignition energy of methane at low temperature[J]. Explosion And Shock Waves, 2018, 38(2): 353-358. doi: 10.11883/bzycj-2016-0218

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Experimental study on the minimum ignition energy of methane at low temperature

doi: 10.11883/bzycj-2016-0218

ZHAO Xiangyu^{1, 2, 3},
LI Hongbo^{1, 2, 3
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LI Zili^{1, 2, 3},
CUI Gan^{1, 2, 3},
FU Yang⁴

1.
China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao 266580, Shandong, China
2.
Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Oil & Gas Storage and Transportation Safety, Qingdao 266580, Shandong, China
3.
Qingdao Key Laboratory of Circle Sea Oil & Gas Storage and Transportation Technology, Qingdao 266580, Shandong, China
4.
Shandong Branch, China National Aviation Fuel, Jinan 116023, Shandong, China

Received Date: 2016-07-21
Rev Recd Date: 2016-08-31
Publish Date: 2018-03-25

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Abstract

In this paper, we tested the minimum ingition energy (MIE) of methane at low temperature using an experimental apparatus fabricated by ourselves to characterize the explosion of methane at a low temperature ranging from -90 to 0 ℃ and under a pressure ranging from 0.1 to 0.5 MPa. It was found that, within the scope of the study, as the pressure increases, the MIE of methane decreases and does so faster with the increase of the initial pressure under low pressure but more slowly under high pressure; as the temperature increases, the MIE of methane also decreases and does so faster with the increase of the initial temperature at low pressure but more slowly under high pressure; the MIE of methane is approximately linear with the reciprocal of the square of the pressure and the that of the temperature.
- methane,
- MIE,
- temperature,
- pressure

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