Fuel/Engine/Airframe Trade-Off Study.

Abstract

This report covers a study of the effects of broadening the specifications for JP-4 and JP-8, by increasing the freeze point, decreasing the smoke point, and extending the end point on minimizing costs and maximizing fuel availability. The study considered the impact on the engines and airframes. It was concluded that the specification maximum allowable freeze point of JP-4 or JP-8 could not be increased without degrading aircraft system performance and safety on the basis of criteria available to this study. Increases in availability were predicted for JP-4 of up to 9% and for JP-8 between 41% and 62%. A fuel price analysis was performed based on prices through 1978. Price changes subsequent to the analysis have been so rapid and so unbalanced between products that predictions cannot be made of price changes resulting from specification changes. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1980
Accession Number
ADA097391

Entities

People

  • A. T. Peacock
  • E. R. Brown
  • H. Hennig
  • N. C. Burmaster
  • R. M. Matsuo

Organizations

  • Douglas

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Alkanes
  • Calorific Value
  • Chemical Reactions
  • Chemistry
  • Fuel Efficiency
  • Fuel Oils
  • Heat Transfer
  • Hydrocarbon Fuels
  • Ignition Lag
  • Jet Engine Fuels
  • Material Degradation Processes
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Materials Processing
  • Materials Science
  • Materials Testing

Readers

  • Industrial Economics
  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis
  • Petroleum Engineering