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Journal article
Comparing Alternative Jet Fuel Dependencies Between Combustors of Different Size and Mixing Approaches
Frontiers in energy research, Vol.9
08/13/2021
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/118529
Appears in Aviation Sustainability Center (ASCENT)
Abstract
Analyses used to reveal fuel dependencies on lean blow out and ignition at specific operating conditions in specific combustors show inconsistent trends with each other. Such variety is however consistent with the occurrence of transitions between the governing physical phenomena as the ratios between evaporation, mixing, or chemical time scales with their respective residence times also vary with specific operating conditions and combustor geometry. It is demonstrated here that the fuel dependencies on LBO in a large, single-cup, swirl-stabilized, rich-quench-lean combustor varies with operating conditions such that a feature importance match is attained to fuel dependencies observed in a much smaller combustor at one end of the tested range, while a qualitative match to fuel dependencies observed in a lean, premixed, swirler-stabilized combustor of comparable size at the other end of the tested range. The same reference combustor, when tested at cold conditions, is shown to exhibit similar fuel dependencies on ignition performance as the much smaller combustor, when tested at both cold and warm conditions. The practical significance of these findings is that a reference rig, such as the Referee Rig, can capture fuel performance trends of proprietary industry combustors by tailoring the inlet air and fuel temperatures of the tests. It is, therefore, a trustworthy surrogate for screening and evaluating sustainable aviation fuel candidates, reducing the dependency on proprietary industrial combustors for this purpose, thereby increasing transparency within the evaluation process while also expediting the process and reducing cost and fuel volume.
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- Title
- Comparing Alternative Jet Fuel Dependencies Between Combustors of Different Size and Mixing Approaches
- Creators
- Randall C. Boehm - University of DaytonJennifer G. Colborn - University of DaytonJoshua S. Heyne - University of Dayton
- Publication Details
- Frontiers in energy research, Vol.9
- Academic Unit
- Aviation Sustainability Center (ASCENT); Alternative Jet Fuel
- Publisher
- Frontiers Media Sa
- Number of pages
- 12
- Grants
- 13-C-AJFF-UD-024, Federal Aviation Administration (United States, Washington) - FAA
- Grant note
- 13C-AJFE-UD-024 / U.S. Federal Aviation Administration Office of Environment and Energy through ASCENT
- Identifiers
- 99900898128101842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article