Correlations of vaporization performance of conventional and biofuel sprays in a crossflow heated chamber

    Authors

    X. Gu; S. Basu;R. Kumar

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    Int. Commun. Heat Mass Transf.

    Keywords

    Biofuels; Mono-dispersed spray; Vaporization performance; Correlation; DROPLET VAPORIZATION; PRE-MIXER; COMBUSTION; EVAPORATION; FUEL; Thermodynamics; Mechanics

    Abstract

    Pre-vaporization and pre-mixing are the two main features of LPP type of combustor that operate on liquid fuels. The pre-vaporization length scale is one of its most important design parameters. In this study, the goal is to put forward a simulation based correlation for fuel vaporization performance as a function of dimensionless parameters for crossflow type of injections. Two types of fuels are studied here: jet-A and one of its potential biofuel substitutes, RME. Different sets of spray simulations are considered for crossflow type of injections. Correlations are provided for both jet-A and RME's vaporization performance as a function of non-dimensional inlet air temperature, fuel/air momentum flux ratio and normalized spray traverse distance. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

    Journal Title

    International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer

    Volume

    39

    Issue/Number

    10

    Publication Date

    1-1-2012

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    1478

    Last Page

    1486

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000313542000003

    ISSN

    0735-1933

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