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This work presents a detailed experimental and numerical investigation of the effect of H 2 /CO composition on extinction characteristics of premixed and nonpremixed syngas flames. Experimental measurements of local and global extinction strain rates in counterflow diffusion flames have been reported at atmospheric pressure for six different compositions of syngas fuel. The concentration of H 2 was varied from 5 to 20% with a 3% increment, and correspondingly, CO was decreased from 35 to 20% in steps of 3%. Particle imaging velocimetry has been used to determine the local extinction strain rates. Local extinction strain rates increased with an increase in the H 2 /CO ratio in both nonpremixed and premixed flames. The predicted extinction strain rates for both nonpremixed and premixed counterflow flames using five different mechanisms available in the literature were compared with measurements. The Davis H 2 /CO and Ranzi H 2 /CO mechanisms predicted extinction strain rates within 10% of experimental values irrespective of the H 2 /CO ratio. In the nonpremixed case, the C1 mechanism by Li et al., GRI 3.0, and the Ranzi H 2 /CO mechanism predicted extinction strain rates well for low H 2 /CO ratios (from 5:35 to 14:26) but deviated from experiments for higher H 2 /CO values (17:23 and 20:20). In addition to kinetics, preferential diffusion effects were found to affect the reaction zone significantly and create distinct localized reaction zone structures in nonpremixed flames, which could contribute to discrepancies in extinction predictions.

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