Fuel flexibility influences on premixed combustor blowout, flashback, autoignition, and stability

Proceedings of the ASME Turbo Expo

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 601-615

  Lieuwen, Tim ^a   McDonell, Vince ^b   Petersen, Eric ^c   Santavicca, Domenic ^d  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^d The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC STABILITY; FLASHBACK; PREMIXED COMBUSTORS; SYNGAS FUELS;

BLOWOUTS; COMBUSTION; GAS FUELS; IGNITION; MIXING; NATURAL GAS;

COMBUSTORS;

EID: 33750825793     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/GT2006-90770     Document Type: Conference Paper

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