Conference proceeding
Thermal stability of distillate hydrocarbon fuels
The Annual Solar Thermal Technology Research and Development Conference (1983)
01 Jan 1983
Abstract
Thermal stability of fuels is expected to become a severe problem in the future due to the anticipated use of broadened specification and alternative fuels. Future fuels will have higher contents of heteroatomic species which are reactive constituents and are known to influence fuel degradation. To study the degradation chemistry of selected model fuels, n-dodecane and n-dodecane plus heteroatoms were aerated by bubbling air through the fuels amd stressed on a modified Jet Fuel Thermal Oxidation Tester facility operating at heater tube temperatures between 200 to 400 C. The resulting samples were fractionated to concentrate the soluble products and then analyzed using gas chromatographic and mass spectrometric techniques to quantify and identify the stable reaction intermediate and product specifically. Heteroatom addition showed that the major soluble products were always the same, with and without heteroatoms, but their distributions varied considerably.
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- Title
- Thermal stability of distillate hydrocarbon fuels
- Creators
- R. S. Cohen - Drexel UniversityN P Cernansky - Drexel University, College of Engineering
- Conference
- The Annual Solar Thermal Technology Research and Development Conference (1983)
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- College of Engineering
- Identifiers
- 991020202226304721