Experimental Studies of Coal and Biomass Fuel Synthesis and Flame Characterization for Aircraft Engines
Abstract
The broad objective of the research team is to establish the feasibility of an innovative idea to develop a commercially and technically viable integrated coal/biomass-to-liquid jet fuel synthesis process while mitigating the CO2 penalty. The production of transportation fuel from domestic coal and biomass sources would assure the U.S. Air Force a dependable and secure fuel supply. However, low efficiencies of the existing coal/biomass-to-liquid fuel processes, high capital and operating costs of the coal gasifiers and lack of combustion characteristics of the liquid fuel f rom coal/biomass are some of the major barriers to their use. As a result, there is a need for fundamental scientific and synergistic research in catalytic biomass fast-hydropyrolysis and advanced coal gasification studies. Synthetic liquid fuel combustion studies were conducted in the previous two years of the project and are also in progress elsewhere. The objective of this project was to develop experimental facilities for addressing specific scientific issues associated with the utilization of biomass and coal to produce appropriate aviation fuels.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 31, 2012
- Accession Number
- ADA571336
Entities
People
- Andrew Smeltz
- Daniel Guildenbecher
- Fabio H. Ribeiro
- Indraneel Sircar
- Jay Gore
- Li Qiao
- Rakesh Agrawal
- Robert P. Lucht
- Sameer Naik
- W. N. Delgass
Organizations
- Purdue University