Correlations of soot formation in turbojet engines and in laboratory flames

Conference · Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 1984 · Am. Soc. Mech. Eng., (Pap.); (United States)

OSTI ID:5107854

Gill, R J; Calcote, H F; Olson, D B

Smoke related performance of both jet engine and research combustors has been correlated with several fuel properties. The smoke related data included: smoke number, liner temperature rise, and radiation flux to the combustor wall; fuel parameters included: percent hydrogen, percent aromatic, percent polycyclic aromatic, smoke point, and the threshold soot index, TSI. The research combustor results correlated best with the threshold sooting index. While some correlations with engine performance were excellent, no single fuel property was generally useful in evaluating smoke related performance, mainly because of insufficient data on the fuels tested in the jet engine programs. It is, however, demonstrated that fuel composition plays a dominant role in determining smoke related engine parameters.

• Research Organization: AeroChem Research Laboratories, Inc., Princeton, New Jersey
• OSTI ID: 5107854
• Report Number(s): CONF-840611-
• Journal Information: Am. Soc. Mech. Eng., (Pap.); (United States), Vol. 84-GT-108; Conference: International gas turbine conference and exhibit, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 4 Jun 1984
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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33 ADVANCED PROPULSION SYSTEMS
AIRCRAFT
GAS TURBINE ENGINES
COMBUSTORS
PERFORMANCE
JET ENGINE FUELS
SOOT
PRODUCTION
CHEMICAL COMPOSITION
COMBUSTION PROPERTIES
CORRELATIONS
FLAMES
FOSSIL FUELS
SMOKES
TEST FACILITIES
AEROSOLS
COLLOIDS
DISPERSIONS
ENERGY SOURCES
ENGINES
FUELS
HEAT ENGINES
INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINES
RESIDUES
SOLS
330103* - Internal Combustion Engines- Turbine