Properties of Fuels Employed in a Gas Turbine Combustor Program.

Abstract

A compilation has been made of the physical and chemical properties of sixteen fuels employed in an aircraft gas turbine combustor programme. Several of these are specification fuels of the kerosene or wide-cut type. Others have been chosen to exhibit systematic variations mainly in the direction of out-of-specification boiling range or aromatics level or both. Some are of non-petroleum origin, derived from oil shale or tar sands, or are synthetic fuels (JP10, RJ6). Complete specification testing was conducted on these fuels, and detailed non-specification property determination-simulated distillation by gas chromatography, thermal stability breakpoint, density, specific heat, viscosity, surface tension and true vapor pressure, all as a function of temperature; heats of combustion, hydrogen content, and detailed hydrocarbon compositional analysis. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1983
Accession Number
ADA136663

Entities

People

  • J. R. Coleman
  • L. D. Gallop

Organizations

  • Defence Research and Development Canada

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Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Boiling Point
  • Chemical Properties
  • Combustion
  • Energy Systems
  • Failure Mode And Effect Analysis
  • Fuels
  • Gas Turbines
  • Heat Of Combustion
  • Jet Engine Fuels
  • Materials
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Materials Processing
  • Materials Science
  • National Security
  • Petroleum
  • Thermal Stability

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  • Petroleum Engineering
  • Theoretical Analysis.