To study the effect of inert dust on gas explosion suppression mechanism,SiO_2 fine powders were sprayed to suppress premixed CH_4-Air gas explosion in a 20 L spherical experimental system.In the experiment,high speed schlieren image system was adopted to record explosion flame propagation behaviors,meanwhile,pressure transducers and ion current probes were used to clearly record the explosion flame dynamic characteristics.The experimental results show that the SiO_2 fine powders suppressed evidently the gas explosion flame,and reduced the peak value of pressure and flame speed by more than 40%.The ion current result shows that the SiO_2 super fine powders were easy to contact with and absorb free radicals near the combustion reaction region,which greatly reduced the combustion reaction intensity,and in turn influenced the flame propagation and pressure rising.
Xianfeng Chen,~(1,2,a)) Yin Zhang,~1 Qingming Zhang,~2 Shaofeng Ren,~1 and Jianxing Wu~1 1)School of Natural Resources and Environmental Engineering,Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070,China 2)State Key Laboratory of Explosion Science and Technology,Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081,China
