Combustion products of petroleum jet fuel, a fischer-tropsch synthetic fuel, and a biomass fatty acid methyl ester fuel for a gas turbine engine

Combustion Science and Technology

Volumn 183, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1039-1068

  Timko, Michael T ^a   Herndon, Scott C ^a   De La Rosa Blanco, Elena ^a   Wood, Ezra C ^a   Yu, Zhenhong ^a   Miake Lye, Richard C ^a   Knighton, W Berk ^b   Shafer, Linda ^c   Dewitt, Matthew J ^c   Corporan, Edwin ^d  

^a AERODYNE RESEARCH INC   (United States)

^b MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative fuels; Emissions; Gas turbine engine

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC CONTENTS; AROMATIC MOLECULES; CFM INTERNATIONALS; CO EMISSIONS; COMBUSTION EMISSIONS; COMBUSTION PRODUCTS; COMBUSTION TEMPERATURES; EMISSIONS PERFORMANCE; FATTY ACID METHYL ESTER; FISCHER TROPSCH; FT FUEL; FUEL BLENDS; FUEL COMPOSITIONS; FUEL ENERGY; FUEL/AIR RATIO; GAS TURBINE ENGINE; JET A-1; MASS EMISSIONS; NON-VOLATILE; NOX EMISSIONS; NUMBER DENSITY; OXYGEN CONTENT; PARTICLE EMISSIONS; POWER CONDITIONS; REGULATED POLLUTANTS; TOTAL MASS; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND EMISSION;

AIRCRAFT PROPULSION; ALTERNATIVE FUELS; AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; AROMATIZATION; BENZENE; BUTENES; COMBUSTION; ESTERIFICATION; ESTERS; FATTY ACIDS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GAS TURBINES; HYDROCARBONS; JET FUEL; OXYGEN; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; PROPYLENE; SYNTHETIC FUELS; TOLUENE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

GAS EMISSIONS;

EID: 80053020633     PISSN: 00102202     EISSN: 1563521X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00102202.2011.581717     Document Type: Article

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