Burning of the Ti + xC (1 > x > 0.5) powder and granulated mixtures

Abstract

This paper describes the experiments on the burning of the Ti + 0.5C, Ti + 0.75C, and Ti + C powder and granulated mixtures. Despite the fact that there is no convective heat transfer and the contact area between the particles is small, the linear and mass burning rates of granulated compositions happened to be several times greater than in the case of powder mixtures of the same composition. The obtained experimental and computational values of the adiabatic combustion temperature were used to estimate the contribution of the radiant and conductive heat transfer in the combustion wave propagation along the granulated mixtures. The experiments with compacted samples showed that the high burning rate of the granulated mixtures is due to great velocity of the combustion wave propagation along the granule rather than the specific features of the original reagents.