-Shock Tubes-

Institut de Combustion Aérothermique Réactivité et Environnement

Shock Tubes : High Temperature Chemical Kinetics

Contact : Nabiha CHAUMEIX

These highly instrumented facilities are designed for the development and validation of high-temperature kinetic models.


Heated, 52 mm in diameter and 7.5 m long

38.4 mm in diameter and 3.5 m long

78.4 mm diameter and 9 m long

Features

* Several impact tubes of different lengths and diameters,
* Stainless steel and Pyrex,
* Pmax = 5 MPa / 6 MPa,
* Tinitial, max from 298 K to 403 K.

Equipments

* Pressure sensors,
* Viewing windows,
* Sampling valve coupled to the shock tube.

Diagnostics

* Pressure measurements,
* Emission, Absorption,
* LASER extinction and diffusion,
* Atomic Resonance Absorption Spectrophotometry,
* Gas analysis by CPG-MS/FID/TCD.


Measuring device : Laser extinction / Rayleigh scattering
Gas sampling device coupled to the shock tube