Thermal cracking of hydrocarbon aviation fuels in regenerative cooling microchannels

Energy and Fuels

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 2563-2577

  Jiang, Rongpei ^a   Liu, Guozhu ^a   Zhang, Xiangwen ^a  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; ELECTRICALLY HEATED TUBES; HEAT TRANSFER ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR REACTIONS; NEXT-GENERATION AIRCRAFT; REGENERATIVE COOLING; SUPERCRITICAL CONDITION; THERMAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS;

AVIATION; COOLING; CRACKING (CHEMICAL); FUELS; HYDROCARBONS; MICROCHANNELS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

CRACKS;

EID: 84878100271     PISSN: 08870624     EISSN: 15205029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ef400367n     Document Type: Article

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