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Spray combustion modelingConcern over the future availability of high quality liquid fuels or use in furnaces and boilers prompted the U. S. Department of Energy (DOE) to consider alternate fuels as replacements for the high grade liquid fuels used in the 1970's and 1980's. Alternate fuels were defined to be combinations of a large percentage of viscous, low volatility fuels resulting from the low end of distillation mixed with a small percentage of relatively low viscosity, high volatility fuels yielded by the high end of distillation. The addition of high volatility fuels was meant to promote desirable characteristics to a fuel that would otherwise be difficult to atomize and burn and whose combustion would yield a high amount of pollutants. Several questions thus needed to be answered before alternate fuels became commercially viable. These questions were related to fuel atomization, evaporation, ignition, combustion and pollutant formation. This final report describes the results of the most significant studies on ignition and combustion of alternative fuels.
Document ID
19970031105
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Other
Authors
Bellan, J. (Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA United States)
Date Acquired
September 6, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1997
Subject Category
Inorganic And Physical Chemistry
Report/Patent Number
DOE/AL/94648-T4
DE97-003747
Accession Number
97N28317
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: DE-AT04-93AL-94648
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.
Keywords
Combustion
Liquid Fuels
Distillates

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