Fuels Combustion Research.
Abstract
The qualitative mechanisms for the oxidation of benzene and alkylated benzenes corresponds well with flow reactor results. Major results have been obtained on how the aromatic sidechain reacts and specific fundamental reaction rate data have been obtained. A fundamental correlation with respect to fuel C-C bonds for the sooting tendency of fuels under premixed combustion conditions has been developed and the concept that fuel structure plays no direct role in determining the critical sooting equivalence ratio was put forth and substantiated by results on pure fuels and fuel mixtures. Fuel structure and pyrolysis mechanisms have been found to be the important controlling factors in sooting diffusion flames. From a knowledge of basic pyrolysis studies, it is now possible to predict a fuel's reveal no synergistic trends with diffusion flame sooting trends; however, these trends may be due to the structural aspects of these flames. Experimental and theoretical research efforts on high-energy-density slurry propellants are reported. Transient internal heat conduction and liquid surface regression of a rigid slurry droplet during liquid vaporization and combustion have been investigated using singular perturbation methods. Experimentally, a technique to produce isolated slurry fuel droplets of boron and JP-10 has been developed, and observations on the isolated droplet combustion characteristics of several commercially prepared boron/JP-10 slurries were made.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 09, 1985
- Accession Number
- ADA172429
Entities
People
- Forman A. Williams
- Frederick L. Dryer
- Irvin Glassman
Organizations
- Princeton University