Fuel Property Effects on the Cold Startability of Navy High-Speed Diesel Engines.

Abstract

In this program, four Navy high-speed diesel engines were tested for startability at 5 C. The engines were Detroit Diesel Allison 4-53T, Detroit Diesel Allison 4-71TI, Cummins NH-220, and Westerbeke 4-108. Initially, starting time versus temperature curves were determined for each engine using a MIL-F-16884H base fuel. Next, starting timed at 5 C were determined for progressively lower ignition quality fuels. The test fuels were obtained by mixing progressively larger volumes of three-cetine fuels with the base fuel. Multiple linear regression analysis was performed using the cranking speed and fuel properties as the independent variables with starting time as the dependent variable. This yielded an equation for each engine that predicts starting time based on fuel properties and cranking speed. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1985
Accession Number
ADA180313

Entities

People

  • A. F. Montemayor
  • Edwin C. Owens
  • J. P. Buckingham
  • P. K. Jung
  • R. M. Giannini

Organizations

  • Southwest Research Institute

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Burning Rate
  • Combustion
  • Combustion Chambers
  • Data Analysis
  • Equations
  • Flash Point
  • Fuel Oils
  • Gas Turbines
  • Heat Transfer
  • Ignition
  • Information Science
  • Linear Regression Analysis
  • Petroleum
  • Regression Analysis
  • Research Facilities
  • Statistics
  • Turbines

Fields of Study

  • Agricultural and Food sciences

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  • Petroleum Engineering
  • Regression Analysis.