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High temperature gas turbine engine component materials testing program. Monthly technical progress report No. 5, November 1-29, 1975

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6522402· OSTI ID:6522402
Work continued to slip this month in those Subtasks that are directly affected by the lack of the coal-derived fuel oil (COED) fuel needed for initial testing. The limited amount of COED fuel to be made available, the need to resolve logistics for its delivery and the need to develop a synthetic COED fuel for the balance of initial testing and for confirmation testing have combined to create delays in the initial test program, which would otherwise have been initiated on October 20. As a result of the lack of - and/or delays involving - the above information/data requested from ERDA, the new start date of the initial COED testing appears to be late December. (This delayed start in initial testing, work scheduled to start in January in other subtasks on the basis of having initial COED fuel test results available, will have to be deferred.) Other work is continuing on schedule. The selection of materials to be tested, identification of coal feedstocks to be used, selection of a specific COED fuel to be used, and preparations for initial COED fuel testing have all been completed on schedule. Preparations for the initial low-Btu gas tests at ERDA/MERC and also, for the screening tests are proceeding in accordance with schedule. The absence of initial COED testing results needed to establish test conditions for the screening tests, however, may cause their initiation to be deferred.
Research Organization:
General Electric Co., Schenectady, NY (USA). Gas Turbine Div.
OSTI ID:
6522402
Report Number(s):
FE-1765-6; ON: DE84017297
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English