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 …

Preferential vaporization impacts on lean blow-out of liquid fueled combustors

SH Won, N Rock, SJ Lim, S Nates, D Carpenter… - Combustion and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Recent experimental works have shown that the global equivalence ratio defining lean blow-
out (LBO) in model gas turbine combustors correlates with the derived cetane number …

Investigating the role of atomization on flame stability of liquid fuels in an annular spray burner

R Alsulami, B Windell, S Nates, W Wang, SH Won… - Fuel, 2020 - Elsevier
Atomization, vaporization, turbulent mixing, and the chemical kinetics of a liquid fuel impact
the combustion efficiency, stability, and emissions within IC engines. When fuels with …

Near-lean blowoff dynamics in a liquid fueled combustor

N Rock, B Emerson, J Seitzman, T Lieuwen - Combustion and Flame, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper describes an analysis of the near-lean blow off (LBO) dynamics of spray flames,
including the influence of fuel composition upon these dynamics. It is motivated by the fact …

[HTML][HTML] Spray flame characterisation under lean blow-out conditions

F Hampp, D Schäfer, O Lammel - Combustion and Flame, 2024 - Elsevier
The scalability of liquid fuel operated jet stabilised combustion systems towards dimensions
and mixing timescales relevant for compact designs (eg MGT, compact aero-engines) is …

Evaluating ignition propensity of high cycloparaffinic content alternative jet fuel by a chemical functional group approach

D Carpenter, S Nates, FL Dryer, SH Won - Combustion and Flame, 2021 - Elsevier
The molecular components typically found in today's jet fuels that meet ASTM specification
are almost entirely alkanes and (mostly alkyl) aromatics with cycloalkyl contents seldom …

Experimental study of droplet vaporization for conventional and renewable transportation fuels: Effects of physical properties and chemical composition

M Stöhr, S Ruoff, B Rauch, W Meier, P Le Clercq - Fuel, 2024 - Elsevier
As part of the global energy transition, an increasing number of sustainable liquid fuels with
a wide range of physical and chemical properties becomes available for gas turbine and IC …

Stability and structure of lean swirling spray flames with various degrees of prevaporization

J Wang, PM de Oliveira, RS Pathania… - … Journal of Spray …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Achieving full premixing and complete evaporation in lean prevaporized premixed
combustors is challenging as it depends on the spray injector characteristics …

Computation of conventional and alternative jet fuel sensitivity to lean blowout

VR Hasti, P Kundu, S Som, SH Won, FL Dryer… - Journal of the Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Large Eddy Simulations (LES) are performed to compute the sensitivity of a
conventional (A-2) and an alternate bio-jet (C-1) fuel to Lean Blowout (LBO). A realistic …

Liquid jet fuel property impacts on combustion performance

R Alsulami, B Windom - Journal of Propulsion and Power, 2021 - arc.aiaa.org
This paper investigates the influence of liquid jet fuel properties on flame lean blowout (LBO)
using an annular coflow spray burner. This behavior has been studied before; however …