Control of thermoacoustic instability of liquid-spray flame with porous sound absorber

A kind of porous sound absorber was studied to control the thermoacoustic oscillation of liquid mist flame, which combined natural fibrous materials and perforated plate. It could optimize the sound absorption characteristics of fibrous materials by adding perforated plate and air cavity. The influences of the interlayer and back cavity depth of two kinds of fibrous materials with the mass of 20, 30, 40 g were investigated experimentally in an impedance tube and applied to control the oscillating ethanol flame. The results showed that the best depth of interlayer and back cavity were 20 cm and 30 cm, respectively. The addition of two kinds of fiber sandwich structures could reduce the amplitude of the sound pressure oscillation in the combustion chamber by 89.2 % and 92.6 %, as well as 88.0 % and 91.2 % in the plenum chamber, meanwhile, restrained the flame heat release fluctuation by 73 %. It was proved that the porous sound absorber could act as a damp in the acoustic transmission path and suppress the sound source.