Title :
Fuel correlations for combustion purposes: a summary of progress within the past fifteen years. II
Author :
Kretschmer, D. ; Odgers, J.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Mech. Eng., Laval Univ., Que., Canada
Abstract :
For pt.I see ibid., p.1968-74 (1996). Over the years, many correlations for fuel properties have been developed at Laval University. The main goal in this was to provide tools to estimate unknown fuel properties from the known values of the density and the viscosity at one temperature and the ASTM D-86 distillation, since these data are easily determined. The first part of the this paper dealt with properties of liquid fuels. Most of the correlations in this second part are not so much pertinent to fuel properties per se, but rather to lean premixed flame behavior. Much of the behavior is related to two postulated temperatures, Tauig and Ti. The first (the auto ignition temperature) may be regarded as the `start´ of a reaction and the second (the instantaneous, spontaneous ignition temperature) may be regarded as that temperature at which the reaction first becomes self-sustaining. Between them they account for a good deal of premixed combustion behavior
Keywords :
combustion; flames; fuel; ignition; ASTM D-86 distillation; Laval University; auto ignition temperature; combustion; density; fuel correlations; instantaneous spontaneous ignition temperature; lean premixed flame behavior; premixed combustion behavior; self-sustaining reaction; unknown fuel properties estimation; viscosity; Argon; Combustion; Equations; Fires; Fuels; Gases; Helium; Ignition; Temperature distribution; Temperature measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Energy Conversion Engineering Conference, 1996. IECEC 96., Proceedings of the 31st Intersociety
Conference_Location :
Washington, DC
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3547-3
DOI :
10.1109/IECEC.1996.553420