High Temperature Hydrocarbon Fuels Research in an Advanced Aircraft Fuel System Simulator on Fuel AFFB-12-68

Abstract

Hydrocarbon jet fuels tend to form deposits at elevated temperatures that decrease heat exchanger efficiency and plug screens and filter elements. The Advanced Aircraft Fuel System Simulator provides generalized performance data, with respect to thermal stability, on various advanced fuels that will be used to correlate to small-scale test results and provide information on design criteria for future supersonic aircraft. In this report, the thermal stability of the fifth fuel (AFFB-12-68) tested in the simulator is quantified in terms of the amount of deposit formed. The quantification of deposit formation is determined under cyclic conditions (mission profiles) and types of steady-state test conditions (steady-state and steady-state-varied flow).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1970
Accession Number
AD0866978

Entities

People

  • Harold Goodman
  • Royce P. Bradley

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Fuel Lines
  • Fuel Systems
  • Heat Transfer
  • Heat Transfer Coefficients
  • High Temperature
  • Hydrocarbon Fuels
  • Materials
  • Measurement
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Simulators
  • Standards
  • Supersonic Aircraft
  • Thermal Conductivity
  • Thermal Resistance

Readers

  • Combustion and Flow Dynamics.
  • Petroleum Engineering

Technology Areas

  • Hypersonics
  • Hypersonics - Hypersonic Flow