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

Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power

Volumn 131, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  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 AND NO; CO EMISSIONS; COMBUSTION PERFORMANCE; COMPOSITIONAL DIFFERENCE; FLAME TEMPERATURES; FUEL ATOMIZATION; FUEL BLENDS; FUEL COST; FUEL PROPERTIES; FUEL/AIR MIXING; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY/MASS SPECTROMETRY; GAS TURBINE BURNERS; HIGH VISCOSITIES; KINEMATIC VISCOSITY; LIQUID BIOFUELS; OPERATING CONDITION; PRIMARY AIR; SAUTER MEAN DIAMETERS; SOYBEAN OIL; VEGETABLE OIL BLENDS; WATER CONTENT MEASUREMENTS; WIDE SPREADS;

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

GAS FUEL ANALYSIS;

EID: 77955316329     PISSN: 07424795     EISSN: 15288919     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2982137     Document Type: Article

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