Towards drop-in sustainable aviation fuels in aero engine combustors: Fuel effects on combustion performance

C Ruan, L Yu, X Lu - Progress in Aerospace Sciences, 2024 - Elsevier
The application of sustainable aviation fuels (SAFs) in aviation industry has emerged as a
key strategy for reducing the net carbon oxide (CO 2) emissions while minimizing …

Experimental study on knock suppression of spark-ignition engine fuelled with kerosene via water injection

C Wang, F Zhang, E Wang, C Yu, H Gao, B Liu, Z Zhao… - Applied energy, 2019 - Elsevier
The four-stroke spark-ignition (SI) internal combustion engine has good fuel economy and
high power/weight ratio, making it very suitable for small aircraft. Normally, four-stroke …

Effect of hydrogen addition on the laminar burning velocity of n-decane/air mixtures: Experimental and numerical study

C Xu, Q Wang, X Li, K Liu, W Liu, F Oppong… - International journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Hydrogen is a potential aviation alternative fuel. To explore the influence of hydrogen
addition on the combustion of aviation kerosene, the spherical expanding flame method was …

A lumped kinetic model for high-temperature pyrolysis and combustion of 50 surrogate fuel components and their mixtures

X Zhang, SM Sarathy - Fuel, 2021 - Elsevier
Wide distillation fuels (WDF) and gasoline/diesel blends have been proposed as new fuel
formulations for advanced combustion engines. Recent studies have shown that multi …

High-pressure fuel spray ignition behavior with hot surface interaction

AH Motily, JI Ryu, K Kim, K Kim, CBM Kweon… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - Elsevier
Fuel-flexible aircraft propulsion systems using compression ignition engines will require
novel strategies for reducing the ignition delay of low-reactivity fuels to feasible timescales …

Modelling of multi-component kerosene and surrogate fuel droplet heating and evaporation characteristics: A comparative analysis

L Poulton, O Rybdylova, IA Zubrilin, SG Matveev… - Fuel, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract A Discrete Component Model (DCM) is applied to study the heating and
evaporation of suspended kerosene and kerosene surrogate droplets. The effects of natural …

Study on the laminar burning velocity of ethanol/RP-3 aviation kerosene premixed flame

Y Liu, W Gu, J Wang, D Rao, X Chen, H Ma… - Combustion and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Ethanol biofuel is one renewable liquid fuel which can mix with aviation kerosene and be
used as the alternative fuel in aero-engine to release oil security as well as reduce CO 2 …

On the hydro-acoustic coupling responsible for the flashback limit-cycle of a premixed flame at a backward-facing step

S Boulal, A Genot, JM Klein, Y Fabignon… - Combustion and …, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper examines the combustion dynamics of a methane/air premixed flame
establishing past a backward-facing step placed in a ducted combustor. Spectral analysis …

Experimental study of aviation kerosene engine with PJI system

L Wang, Z Zhao, C Yu, H Cui - Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
The spark-ignition (SI) piston engine has become the main power source for unmanned
aerial vehicles owing to its small size and large power/weight ratio. While gasoline is the …

Study of hydrogen impact on lean flammability limit and burning characteristics of a kerosene surrogate

MZ Akram - Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Hydrogen impacts on lean flammability limits and the burning characteristics of n-decane, a
kerosene surrogate, were studied using a spherical combustion chamber and Chemkin …