US EPA

854923 

Journal Article 

Model fuels to reproduce the sooting behaviour of aviation kerosene 

Aksit, IM; Moss, JB 

2005 

1 

Fuel
ISSN: 0016-2361
EISSN: 1873-7153 

84 

2-3 

239-245 

10.1016/j.fuel.2004.09.003 

WOS:000225648800015 

http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0016236104002613
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Measurements of spatially resolved soot volume fraction and temperature are reported in diffusion flames fuelled by prevaporised aviation kerosene and model fuels, comprising blends of n-decane and alkyl-substituted aromatics, selected to mimic its sooting behaviour. Although standard smoke point measurements suggest that the specific aromatic does significantly influence the sooting tendency of the blend, measurements in laminar flames exhibit little such sensitivity and a mixture of 30% mesitylene (or propylbenzene)/70% n-decane satisfactorily reproduces the sooting behaviour observed with kerosene in both laminar and turbulent flames. Such comparatively simple blends lend themselves to detailed chemical representation in CFD-based numerical simulation. (C) 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. 

aviation fuels; soot formation