Advanced thermally stable jet fuels. Technical progress report, January 1995--March 1995

Technical Report · Thu Jun 01 04:00:00 EDT 1995

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/251650· OSTI ID:251650

Schobert, H H; Eser, S; Song, C ^[1]

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Quantitative structure-property relationships have been applied to study the thermal stability of pure hydrocarbons typical of jet fuel components. A simple method of chemical structure description in terms of Benson groups was tested in searching for structure-property relationships for the hydrocarbons tested experimentally in this program. Molecular connectivity as a structure-based approach to chemical structure-property relationship analysis was also tested. Further development of both the experimental data base and computational methods will be necessary. Thermal decomposition studies, using glass tube reactors, were extended to two additional model compounds: n-decane and n-dodecane. Efforts on refining the deposit growth measurement and characterization of suspended matter in stressed fuels have lead to improvements in the analysis of stressed fuels. Catalytic hydrogenation and dehydrogenation studies utilizing a molybdenum sulfide catalyst are also described.

• Research Organization: Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States). Coll. of Earth and Mineral Sciences
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: FG22-92PC92104
• OSTI ID: 251650
• Report Number(s): DOE/PC/92104--T11; ON: DE96012296
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

01 COAL, LIGNITE, AND PEAT
CATALYTIC EFFECTS
CHEMICAL PREPARATION
COAL LIQUIDS
CONVERSION
DEPOSITS
DODECANE
FUEL ADDITIVES
FUEL SYSTEMS
HYDROCARBONS
HYDROGENATION
JET ENGINE FUELS
MOLYBDENUM SULFIDES
NAPHTHALENE
PHENANTHRENE
PROGRESS REPORT
THERMAL STRESSES