Ignition of a Combustible Mixture by a Hot Unsteady Gas Jet

The study of the ignition of a combustible mixture induced by means of an unsteady gas jet, at an initial temperature ranging from 700 to 3000 K, requires the construction of an original test facility which consists of a shock tube connected to a combustion chamber via an injector. With this new experimental setup, the ignition conditions of hydrogen-air ( + carbondioxide) mixtures, induced by a hot hydrogen-argon mixture, have been extensively studied, resulting in the determination of the ignition limits of these combustible mixtures, at an initial pressure and temperature of 100 kPa and 403 K respectively.