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A jet fuel surrogate formulated by real fuel properties

Abstract

An implicit methodology based on chemical group theory to formulate a jet aviation fuel surrogate by the measurements of several combustion related fuel properties is tested. The empirical formula and derived cetane number of an actual aviation fuel, POSF 4658, have been determined. A three component surrogate fuel for POSF 4658 has been formulated by constraining a mixture of n-decane, iso-octane and toluene to reproduce the hydrogen/carbon ratio and derived cetane number of the target fuel. The validity of the proposed surrogate is evaluated by experimental measurement of select combustion properties of POSF 4658, and the POSF 4658 surrogate. (1)A variable pressure flow reactor has been used to chart the chemical reactivity of stoichiometric mixtures of POSF 4658/O{sub 2}/N{sub 2} and POSF 4658 surrogate/O{sub 2}/N{sub 2} at 12.5 atm and 500-1000 K, fixing the carbon content at 0.3% for both mixtures. (2)The high temperature chemical reactivity and chemical kinetic-molecular diffusion coupling of POSF 4658 and POSF 4658 surrogate have been evaluated by measurement of the strained extinction limit of diffusion flames. (3)The autoignition behavior of POSF 4658 and POSF 4658 surrogate has been measured with a shock tube at 674-1222 K and with a rapid compression machine at 645-714 K  More>>
Authors:
Dooley, Stephen; Won, Sang Hee; Chaos, Marcos; Heyne, Joshua; Ju, Yiguang; Dryer, Frederick L; [1]  Kumar, Kamal; Sung, Chih-Jen; [2]  Wang, Haowei; Oehlschlaeger, Matthew A; [3]  Santoro, Robert J; Litzinger, Thomas A [4] 
  1. Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544 (United States)
  2. School of Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT (United States)
  3. Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY (United States)
  4. Propulsion Engineering Research Center, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA (United States)
Publication Date:
Dec 15, 2010
Product Type:
Journal Article
Resource Relation:
Journal Name: Combustion and Flame; Journal Volume: 157; Journal Issue: 12; Other Information: Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved
Subject:
37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; JET ENGINE FUELS; TEMPERATURE RANGE 0400-1000 K; AUTOIGNITION; MIXTURES; TEMPERATURE RANGE 1000-4000 K; CARBON; COMBUSTION; DECANE; OCTANE; ACTIVATION ENERGY; TOLUENE; AIR; DIFFUSION; HYDROGEN; ANTIKNOCK RATINGS; SHOCK TUBES; OXYGEN; NITROGEN; TEMPERATURE COEFFICIENT; COMPRESSION; FLAME EXTINCTION; STOICHIOMETRY; COMBUSTION PROPERTIES; COMBUSTION KINETICS; COUPLING; PRESSURE RANGE MEGA PA 01-10; Surrogate formulation; Kinetic models; Group additivity; Fuel properties; Combustion jet-A
OSTI ID:
21390737
Country of Origin:
United States
Language:
English
Other Identifying Numbers:
Journal ID: ISSN 0010-2180; CBFMAO; TRN: US10V0674
Availability:
Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.combustflame.2010.07.001
Submitting Site:
OSTI
Size:
page(s) 2333-2339
Announcement Date:
Jan 20, 2011

Citation Formats

Dooley, Stephen, Won, Sang Hee, Chaos, Marcos, Heyne, Joshua, Ju, Yiguang, Dryer, Frederick L, Kumar, Kamal, Sung, Chih-Jen, Wang, Haowei, Oehlschlaeger, Matthew A, Santoro, Robert J, and Litzinger, Thomas A. A jet fuel surrogate formulated by real fuel properties. United States: N. p., 2010. Web. doi:10.1016/J.COMBUSTFLAME.2010.07.001.
Dooley, Stephen, Won, Sang Hee, Chaos, Marcos, Heyne, Joshua, Ju, Yiguang, Dryer, Frederick L, Kumar, Kamal, Sung, Chih-Jen, Wang, Haowei, Oehlschlaeger, Matthew A, Santoro, Robert J, & Litzinger, Thomas A. A jet fuel surrogate formulated by real fuel properties. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.COMBUSTFLAME.2010.07.001
Dooley, Stephen, Won, Sang Hee, Chaos, Marcos, Heyne, Joshua, Ju, Yiguang, Dryer, Frederick L, Kumar, Kamal, Sung, Chih-Jen, Wang, Haowei, Oehlschlaeger, Matthew A, Santoro, Robert J, and Litzinger, Thomas A. 2010. "A jet fuel surrogate formulated by real fuel properties." United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.COMBUSTFLAME.2010.07.001.
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title = {A jet fuel surrogate formulated by real fuel properties}
author = {Dooley, Stephen, Won, Sang Hee, Chaos, Marcos, Heyne, Joshua, Ju, Yiguang, Dryer, Frederick L, Kumar, Kamal, Sung, Chih-Jen, Wang, Haowei, Oehlschlaeger, Matthew A, Santoro, Robert J, and Litzinger, Thomas A}
abstractNote = {An implicit methodology based on chemical group theory to formulate a jet aviation fuel surrogate by the measurements of several combustion related fuel properties is tested. The empirical formula and derived cetane number of an actual aviation fuel, POSF 4658, have been determined. A three component surrogate fuel for POSF 4658 has been formulated by constraining a mixture of n-decane, iso-octane and toluene to reproduce the hydrogen/carbon ratio and derived cetane number of the target fuel. The validity of the proposed surrogate is evaluated by experimental measurement of select combustion properties of POSF 4658, and the POSF 4658 surrogate. (1)A variable pressure flow reactor has been used to chart the chemical reactivity of stoichiometric mixtures of POSF 4658/O{sub 2}/N{sub 2} and POSF 4658 surrogate/O{sub 2}/N{sub 2} at 12.5 atm and 500-1000 K, fixing the carbon content at 0.3% for both mixtures. (2)The high temperature chemical reactivity and chemical kinetic-molecular diffusion coupling of POSF 4658 and POSF 4658 surrogate have been evaluated by measurement of the strained extinction limit of diffusion flames. (3)The autoignition behavior of POSF 4658 and POSF 4658 surrogate has been measured with a shock tube at 674-1222 K and with a rapid compression machine at 645-714 K for stoichiometric mixtures of fuel in air at pressures close to 20 atm. The flow reactor study shows that the character and extent of chemical reactivity of both fuels at low temperature (500-675 K) and high temperature (900 K+) are extremely similar. Slight differences in the transition from the end of the negative temperature coefficient regime to hot ignition are observed. The diffusion flame strained extinction limits of the fuels are observed to be indistinguishable when compared on a molar basis. Ignition delay measurements also show that POSF 4658 exhibits NTC behavior. Moreover, the ignition delays of both fuels are also extremely similar over the temperature range studied in both shock tube and rapid compression machine experiments. A chemical kinetic model is constructed and utilized to interpret the experimental observations and provides a rationale as to why the real fuel and surrogate fuel exhibit such similar reactivity. (author)}
doi = {10.1016/J.COMBUSTFLAME.2010.07.001}
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