Combustion performance of biodiesel and diesel-vegetable oil blends in a simulated gas turbine burner

Proceedings of the ASME Turbo Expo

Volumn 1, Issue , 2008, Pages 377-388

  Panchasara, Heena V ^a   Simmons, Benjamin M ^a   Agrawal, Ajay K ^a   Spear, Scott K ^b   Daly, Daniel T ^b  

^a University of Alabama   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR FLOW-RATE; AIR-ASSIST; AIR-ASSIST ATOMIZERS; ANIMAL FAT; BIO-DIESEL FUEL; CO EMISSIONS; COMBUSTION PERFORMANCE; COMPOSITIONAL DIFFERENCE; FLAME TEMPERATURES; FUEL ATOMIZATION; FUEL BLENDS; FUEL COMPOSITIONS; FUEL COST; FUEL PROPERTIES; FUEL/AIR MIXING; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY/MASS SPECTROMETRY; GAS TURBINE BURNERS; KINEMATIC VISCOSITY; LIQUID BIOFUELS; NOX EMISSIONS; OPERATING CONDITION; PRIMARY AIR; SAUTER MEAN DIAMETERS; SOYBEAN OIL; VEGETABLE OIL BLENDS; WATER CONTENT MEASUREMENTS;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATOMIZATION; BIODIESEL; COMBUSTION; COMPOSITION EFFECTS; FOSSIL FUELS; FUEL BURNERS; GAS FUEL ANALYSIS; GAS TURBINES; GLOBAL WARMING; LUBRICATING OILS; NITRIC OXIDE; SURFACE TENSION; SYNTHETIC FUELS; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; TURBOMACHINERY; VEGETABLE OILS; VISCOSITY; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTENT;

CARBON MONOXIDE;

EID: 69949132182     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/GT2008-51496     Document Type: Conference Paper

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