A Gas Turbine Combustor Test Facility for Fuel Composition Investigations.

Abstract

Construction, check-out/verification and initial tests of a full scale gas turbine combustor test facility were accomplished. Water cooled gas sampling and stagnation probes and a multiple wavelength light extinction measurement apparatus for determination of mean particulate size were evaluated. The facility will be used for subsequent fuel composition/fuel additive evaluations to determine the resulting effects on soot production and consumption rates. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1983
Accession Number
ADA132479

Entities

People

  • Robert William Dubeau

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Heaters
  • Calibration
  • Control
  • Data Acquisition
  • Data Reduction
  • Detectors
  • Exhaust Gases
  • Fuel Additives
  • Gas Turbines
  • Instrumentation
  • Light Sources
  • Measurement
  • Opacity
  • Optical Detectors
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Facilities
  • Transmissometers

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Aerosol Science/Aerosol Physics
  • Combustion and Flow Dynamics.
  • Petroleum Engineering