Temperature and H2O concentration measurements for a hybrid rocket motor plume using a single mid-infrared tunable diode laser

Sihan Fang; Zezhong Wang; Renjie Li; Zelin Zhang; Xin Lin; Fei Li; Xilong Yu

doi:10.1117/12.2577499

5 November 2020 Temperature and H₂O concentration measurements for a hybrid rocket motor plume using a single mid-infrared tunable diode laser

Sihan Fang, Zezhong Wang, Renjie Li, Zelin Zhang, Xin Lin, Fei Li, Xilong Yu

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Proceedings Volume 11567, AOPC 2020: Optical Sensing and Imaging Technology; 115671B (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2577499
Event: Applied Optics and Photonics China (AOPC 2020), 2020, Beijing, China

Abstract

A mid-infrared TDLAS sensor near 2.5μm was designed for time-resolved measurements of temperature and water vapor partial pressure at the nozzle exit of a laboratory-scale hybrid rocket motor. Several previously used H₂O transitions within 2.4-2.9μm were thoroughly investigated, and a line-pair containing three transitions (4029.52 cm^-1 , 4030.51 cm^-1 and 4030.73 cm^-1 ) was selected for the optimal overall properties like strong absorbance, sufficient temperature sensitivity, single laser scan, high immunity from the ambient H₂O transitions and low measurement uncertainty affected by temperature over the range of 1500K-2500K. Firing tests were conducted on an oxygen/paraffin-fueled hybrid rocket motor operating at oxygen/fuel ratios (O/Fs) of 3.10, 2.77 and 2.88, corresponding to average combustion pressures of 1.91MPa, 2.09MPa and 2.38MPa. A distributed feedback (DFB) laser tuned repetitively at 2kHz was used as the light source, and simultaneously the transmitted spectra were detected at a 2MHz sampling rate. Finally, a 4.5ms time-scale variations of temperature and H₂O partial pressure were captured by TDLAS sensor. Uncertainty analysis was made in detail based on average temperature (1929.8K, 1926.5K, and 1990.7K) and average H₂O partial pressure (0.237MPa, 0.253MPa, and 0.285MPa), leading to temperature uncertainty of around 2.24% and partial pressure uncertainties of around 3.80%, 3.79% and 4.04% respectively. The time-resolved measurement results and small measurement uncertaintiesindicate that TDLAS has the potential to evaluate the combustion performance of hybrid rocket motor

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Sihan Fang, Zezhong Wang, Renjie Li, Zelin Zhang, Xin Lin, Fei Li, and Xilong Yu "Temperature and H₂O concentration measurements for a hybrid rocket motor plume using a single mid-infrared tunable diode laser", Proc. SPIE 11567, AOPC 2020: Optical Sensing and Imaging Technology, 115671B (5 November 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2577499

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