@inproceedings{FunkeBeckmannStefanetal.2023,
  author    = {Funke, Harald and Beckmann, Nils and Stefan, Lukas and Keinz, Jan},
  title     = {Hydrogen combustor integration study for a medium range aircraft engine using the dry-low NOx "Micromix" combustion principle},
  series = {Proceedings of the ASME Turbo Expo 2023: Turbomachinery Technical Conference and Exposition. Volume 1: Aircraft Engine.},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the ASME Turbo Expo 2023: Turbomachinery Technical Conference and Exposition. Volume 1: Aircraft Engine.},
  publisher = {ASME},
  address   = {New York},
  isbn      = {978-0-7918-8693-9},
  doi       = {10.1115/GT2023-102370},
  pages     = {12 Seiten},
  year      = {2023},
  abstract  = {The feasibility study presents results of a hydrogen combustor integration for a Medium-Range aircraft engine using the Dry-Low-NOₓ Micromix combustion principle. Based on a simplified Airbus A320-type flight mission, a thermodynamic performance model of a kerosene and a hydrogen-powered V2530-A5 engine is used to derive the thermodynamic combustor boundary conditions. A new combustor design using the Dry-Low NOx Micromix principle is investigated by slice model CFD simulations of a single Micromix injector for design and off-design operation of the engine. Combustion characteristics show typical Micromix flame shapes and good combustion efficiencies for all flight mission operating points. Nitric oxide emissions are significant below ICAO CAEP/8 limits. For comparison of the Emission Index (EI) for NOₓ emissions between kerosene and hydrogen operation, an energy (kerosene) equivalent Emission Index is used. A full 15° sector model CFD simulation of the combustion chamber with multiple Micromix injectors including inflow homogenization and dilution and cooling air flows investigates the combustor integration effects, resulting NOₓ emission and radial temperature distributions at the combustor outlet. The results show that the integration of a Micromix hydrogen combustor in actual aircraft engines is feasible and offers, besides CO₂ free combustion, a significant reduction of NOₓ emissions compared to kerosene operation.},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{FunkeBeckmannKeinzetal.2021,
  author    = {Funke, Harald and Beckmann, Nils and Keinz, Jan and Horikawa, Atsushi},
  title     = {30 years of dry low NOx micromix combustor research for hydrogen-rich fuels: an overview of past and present activities},
  series = {Conference Proceedings Turbo Expo: Power for Land, Sea and Air, Volume 4B: Combustion, Fuels, and Emissions},
  booktitle = {Conference Proceedings Turbo Expo: Power for Land, Sea and Air, Volume 4B: Combustion, Fuels, and Emissions},
  publisher = {ASME},
  address   = {New York, NY},
  isbn      = {978-0-7918-8413-3},
  doi       = {10.1115/GT2020-16328},
  pages     = {14 Seiten},
  year      = {2021},
  abstract  = {The paper presents an overview of the past and present of low-emission combustor research with hydrogen-rich fuels at Aachen University of Applied Sciences. In 1990, AcUAS started developing the Dry-Low-NOx Micromix combustion technology. Micromix reduces NOx emissions using jet-in-crossflow mixing of multiple miniaturized fuel jets and combustor air with an inherent safety against flashback. At first, pure hydrogen as fuel was investigated with lab-scale applications. Later, Micromix prototypes were developed for the use in an industrial gas turbine Honeywell/Garrett GTCP-36-300, proving low NOx characteristics during real gas turbine operation, accompanied by the successful definition of safety laws and control system modifications. Further, the Micromix was optimized for the use in annular and can combustors as well as for fuel-flexibility with hydrogen-methane-mixtures and hydrogen-rich syngas qualities by means of extensive experimental and numerical simulations. In 2020, the latest Micromix application will be demonstrated in a commercial 2 MW-class gas turbine can-combustor with full-scale engine operation. The paper discusses the advances in Micromix research over the last three decades.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{FunkeBeckmannKeinzetal.2019,
  author    = {Funke, Harald and Beckmann, Nils and Keinz, Jan and Abanteriba, Sylvester},
  title     = {Numerical and Experimental Evaluation of a Dual-Fuel Dry-Low-NOx Micromix Combustor for Industrial Gas Turbine Applications},
  series = {Journal of Thermal Science and Engineering Applications},
  volume    = {11},
  journal   = {Journal of Thermal Science and Engineering Applications},
  number    = {1},
  publisher = {ASME},
  address   = {New York},
  issn      = {19485085},
  doi       = {10.1115/1.4041495},
  pages     = {011015},
  year      = {2019},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{FunkeBeckmannKeinzetal.2018,
  author    = {Funke, Harald and Beckmann, Nils and Keinz, Jan and Abanteriba, Sylvester},
  title     = {Comparison of Numerical Combustion Models for Hydrogen and Hydrogen-Rich Syngas Applied for Dry-Low-Nox-Micromix-Combustion},
  series = {Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power},
  volume    = {140},
  journal   = {Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power},
  number    = {8},
  publisher = {ASME},
  address   = {New York, NY},
  issn      = {0742-4795},
  doi       = {10.1115/1.4038882},
  pages     = {9 Seiten},
  year      = {2018},
  abstract  = {The Dry-Low-NOx (DLN) Micromix combustion technology has been developed as low emission combustion principle for industrial gas turbines fueled with hydrogen or syngas. The combustion process is based on the phenomenon of jet-in-crossflow-mixing (JICF). Fuel is injected perpendicular into the air-cross-flow and burned in a multitude of miniaturized, diffusion-like flames. The miniaturization of the flames leads to a significant reduction of NOx emissions due to the very short residence time of reactants in the flame. In the Micromix research approach, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analyses are validated toward experimental results. The combination of numerical and experimental methods allows an efficient design and optimization of DLN Micromix combustors concerning combustion stability and low NOx emissions. The paper presents a comparison of several numerical combustion models for hydrogen and hydrogen-rich syngas. They differ in the complexity of the underlying reaction mechanism and the associated computational effort. The performance of a hybrid eddy-break-up (EBU) model with a one-step global reaction is compared to a complex chemistry model and a flamelet generated manifolds (FGM) model, both using detailed reaction schemes for hydrogen or syngas combustion. Validation of numerical results is based on exhaust gas compositions available from experimental investigation on DLN Micromix combustors. The conducted evaluation confirms that the applied detailed combustion mechanisms are able to predict the general physics of the DLN-Micromix combustion process accurately. The FGM method proved to be generally suitable to reduce the computational effort while maintaining the accuracy of detailed chemistry.},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Keinz2018,
  author    = {Keinz, Jan},
  title     = {Optimization of a Dry Low NOx Micromix Combustor for an Industrial Gas Turbine Using Hydrogen-Rich Syngas Fuel},
  publisher = {Universit{\´e} Libre de Bruxelles - Brussels School of Engineering Aero-Thermo-Mechanics},
  address   = {Br{\"u}ssel},
  year      = {2018},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{FunkeKeinzKustereretal.2017,
  author    = {Funke, Harald and Keinz, Jan and Kusterer, K. and Haj Ayed, A. and Kazari, M. and Kitajima, J. and Horikawa, A. and Okada, K.},
  title     = {Development and Testing of a Low NOX Micromix Combustion Chamber for an Industrial Gas Turbine},
  series = {International Journal of Gas Turbine, Propulsion and Power Systems},
  volume    = {9},
  journal   = {International Journal of Gas Turbine, Propulsion and Power Systems},
  number    = {1},
  issn      = {1882-5079},
  doi       = {10.38036/jgpp.9.1_27},
  pages     = {27 -- 36},
  year      = {2017},
  abstract  = {The Micromix combustion principle, based on cross-flow mixing of air and hydrogen, promises low emission applications in future gas turbines. The Micromix combustion takes place in several hundreds of miniaturized diffusion-type micro-flames. The major advantage is the inherent safety against flash-back and low NOx-emissions due to a very short residence time of reactants in the flame region. The paper gives insight into the Micromix design and scaling procedure for different energy densities and the interaction of scaling laws and key design drivers in gas turbine integration. Numerical studies, experimental testing, gas turbine integration and interface considerations are evaluated. The aerodynamic stabilization of the miniaturized flamelets and the resulting flow field, flame structure and NOx formation are analysed experimentally and numerically. The results show and confirm the successful adaption of the low NOx Micromix characteristics for a range of different nozzle sizes, energy densities and thermal power output.},
  language  = {de}
}
@inproceedings{FunkeKeinzHendrick2017,
  author    = {Funke, Harald and Keinz, Jan and Hendrick, P.},
  title     = {Experimental Evaluation of the Pollutant and Noise Emissions of the GTCP 36-300 Gas Turbine Operated with Kerosene and a Low NOX Micromix Hydrogen Combustor},
  series = {7th European Conference for Aeronautics and Space Sciences, EUCASS 2017},
  booktitle = {7th European Conference for Aeronautics and Space Sciences, EUCASS 2017},
  organization    = {7th European Conference for Aeronautics and Space Sciences, EUCASS 2017-125, Milan, Italy, July 2017},
  doi       = {10.13009/EUCASS2017-125},
  pages     = {10 Seiten},
  year      = {2017},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{FunkeBeckmannKeinzetal.2017,
  author    = {Funke, Harald and Beckmann, Nils and Keinz, Jan and Abanteriba, Sylvester},
  title     = {Numerical and Experimental Evaluation of a Dual-Fuel Dry-Low-NOx Micromix Combustor for Industrial Gas Turbine Applications},
  series = {Proceedings of the ASME Turbo Expo 2017: Turbomachinery Technical Conference and Exposition. Volume 4B: Combustion, Fuels and Emissions. Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. June 26-30, 2017},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the ASME Turbo Expo 2017: Turbomachinery Technical Conference and Exposition. Volume 4B: Combustion, Fuels and Emissions. Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. June 26-30, 2017},
  publisher = {ASME},
  address   = {New York},
  isbn      = {978-0-7918-5085-5},
  doi       = {10.1115/GT2017-64795},
  year      = {2017},
  abstract  = {The Dry-Low-NOx (DLN) Micromix combustion technology has been developed originally as a low emission alternative for industrial gas turbine combustors fueled with hydrogen. Currently the ongoing research process targets flexible fuel operation with hydrogen and syngas fuel. The non-premixed combustion process features jet-in-crossflow-mixing of fuel and oxidizer and combustion through multiple miniaturized flames. The miniaturization of the flames leads to a significant reduction of NOx emissions due to the very short residence time of reactants in the flame. The paper presents the results of a numerical and experimental combustor test campaign. It is conducted as part of an integration study for a dual-fuel (H2 and H2/CO 90/10 Vol.\%) Micromix combustion chamber prototype for application under full scale, pressurized gas turbine conditions in the auxiliary power unit Honeywell Garrett GTCP 36-300. In the presented experimental studies, the integration-optimized dual-fuel Micromix combustor geometry is tested at atmospheric pressure over a range of gas turbine operating conditions with hydrogen and syngas fuel. The experimental investigations are supported by numerical combustion and flow simulations. For validation, the results of experimental exhaust gas analyses are applied. Despite the significantly differing fuel characteristics between pure hydrogen and hydrogen-rich syngas the evaluated dual-fuel Micromix prototype shows a significant low NOx performance and high combustion efficiency. The combustor features an increased energy density that benefits manufacturing complexity and costs.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{AyedKustererFunkeetal.2017,
  author    = {Ayed, Anis Haj and Kusterer, Karsten and Funke, Harald and Keinz, Jan and Bohn, D.},
  title     = {CFD based exploration of the dry-low-NOx hydrogen micromix combustion technology at increased energy densities},
  series = {Propulsion and Power Research},
  volume    = {6},
  journal   = {Propulsion and Power Research},
  number    = {1},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
  address   = {Amsterdam},
  isbn      = {2212-540X},
  doi       = {10.1016/j.jppr.2017.01.005},
  pages     = {15 -- 24},
  year      = {2017},
  language  = {en}
}
@inproceedings{FunkeKeinzBoerneretal.2016,
  author    = {Funke, Harald and Keinz, Jan and B{\"o}rner, S. and Hendrick, P. and Elsing, R.},
  title     = {Testing and analysis of the impact on engine cycle parameters and control system modifications using hydrogen or methane as fuel in an industrial gas turbine},
  series = {Progress in propulsion physics ; Volume 8},
  booktitle = {Progress in propulsion physics ; Volume 8},
  publisher = {EDP Sciences},
  address   = {o.O.},
  organization    = {European Conference for Aerospace Sciences <2013, M{\"u}nchen>},
  isbn      = {978-5-94588-191-4},
  doi       = {10.1051/eucass/201608409},
  pages     = {409 -- 426},
  year      = {2016},
  language  = {en}
}