Development of Liquid Fueled Flameless Combustor

Flameless combustion has become one of the newest focus in the search for cleaner, greener, and safer energy generation technology. Different designs of combustion chambers were used for different types of fuels. Since most of the previous studies were focused on gaseous fuel application, this paper will discuss on the configuration of the combustion chamber, the geometric factor and the approach used in designing the combustion chamber for liquid fuels to achieve flameless combustion conditions. Several configuration such as single stage chambers, two stage chambers, and reverse-flow configured chamber are explained in this paper. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to review the progress and latest achievement in flameless combustion using liquid fuel. Necessary comparison between the performances and the characteristics of the combustion process was done especially in the products of the combustion process. At the end of this paper, a newly developed liquid fueled flameless combustor will be proposed and discussed.