High density fuel qualification for a gas turbine engine
- National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa (Canada) Standard Aero, Ltd., Winnipeg, (Canada) DND, Ottawa, (Canada)
A program for the evaluation of gas turbine engine performance, carried out in the Engine Laboratory of the National Research Council of Canada, is described. Problems under consideration include performance alteration between JP-4 fuel and a high energy density fuel, called strategic military fuel (SMF); performance deterioration during the accelerated endurance test; and emission analysis. The T56 fuel control system is found to be capable of operation on the higher energy density fuel with no detrimental effects regarding control of the engine's normal operating regime. The deterioration of the engine performance during 150-hour endurance tests on SMF was very high, which was caused by an increase in turbine nozzle effective flow area and turbine blade untwist. The most significant performance losses during the endurance tests were on corrected output power, fuel flow, specific fuel consumption and compressor and turbine presure ratio. 9 refs.
- OSTI ID:
- 5530505
- Report Number(s):
- AIAA-Paper-92-0684; CONF-920157-
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 30. American Institute of Astronautics and Aeronautics (AIAA) aerospace sciences meeting and exhibit, Reno, NV (United States), 6-9 Jan 1992
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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