Stabilization of Hydrocarbon Fuel Combustion by Non-stationary Electric Field

The research results of a non-stationary weak electric field effect on diffusion combustion of gas hydrocarbons arc presented in the paper. The main attention was focused on the study of electric field parameters effect on a flame stabilization. The two field types were considered: pulse-periodic and with variable direction of an electric vector. In the experiments the direct photography and the video shooting were used, as well as the spectrozonal photography of the own flame luminescence (at the wavelengths of excited OH* and CH* radicals emission). It was shown that the stabilization zone tends to the place of the largest electric field strength. The rotation of the electric vector leads to the flame stabilization in the electrodes plane and the local intensification of combustion.