Development of an Experimental Database and Kinetic Models for Surrogate Jet Fuels

A review of the combustion and emissions properties of advanced transportation biofuels and their impact on existing and future engines

“…It is a middledistillate cut of crude oil that falls between gasoline and diesel fuel [297]. Researchers have proposed various surrogate fuels for jet fuel, typically containing mixtures of normal alkanes, such as n-decane or n-dodecane, cyclo-alkanes, such as methyl-cyclo-hexane or n-propyl-cyclo-hexane, branched alkanes, such as iso-octane, and aromatics, such as toluene, xylene or n-propyl-benzene [145,[298][299][300]. Recent work by a multi-university research team has proposed surrogate mixtures of n-dodecane/iso-octane/toluene (42.67/33.02/ 24.31% by mole) [301] or n-dodecane/iso-octane/1,3,5-tri-methylbenzene/n-propyl-benzene (40.4/29.5/7.3/22.8% by mole) [150] that capture Jet A fuel properties over a wide range of combustion conditions, ranging from low-temperature ignition to hightemperature flames.…”

“…Recent work has shown that similar performance can be achieved by blending representative distillation cuts of real gas turbine fuels [302]. Combustion models for such jet fuel surrogates have been proposed [299,300,[303][304][305], including reduced models e.g., [306] and model validation is ongoing [148,156,298,300,303,305,307,308].…”

Auto-ignition and chemical kinetic mechanisms of HCCI combustion

“…The current status of these efforts to produce reliable surrogate mixtures is summarized in a group of papers which will appear shortly, for gasoline (Pitz et al, 2007), diesel fuel , and for jet fuel (Edwards et al, 2007). An approach currently being pursued is to create a computational model that includes some number of distinct species that can reproduce the effects of the many real components in the fuel.…”

Experimental and Computational Study of n-Heptane Autoignition in a Direct-Injection Constant-Volume Combustion Chamber

“…Accordingly, much research in recent years has been devoted to development of reaction mechanisms that describe chemical kinetics of engine-relevant fuels. Excellent reviews of research on kinetics of gasoline, diesel, and jet fuels can be found in the literature [1][2][3][4].…”