Aviation Fuels
- 1st Edition - July 20, 2021
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editor: Bhupendra Khandelwal
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 8 3 1 4 - 4
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 8 3 1 5 - 1
Aviation Fuels provides up-to-date data on fuel effects on combustion performance and use of alternative fuels in aircraft. This book covers the latest advances on aviation… Read more
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Request a sales quoteAviation Fuels provides up-to-date data on fuel effects on combustion performance and use of alternative fuels in aircraft. This book covers the latest advances on aviation fuel technologies, including alternative fuels, feedstocks and manufacturing processes, combustion performance, chemical modeling, fuel systems compatibility and the technical and environmental challenges for implementing the use of alternative fuels for aviation. Aviation fuel and combustion researchers, academics, and program managers for aviation technologies will value this comprehensive overview and summary on the present status of aviation fuels.
- Presents an overview on all relevant fields of aviation fuels, including production, approval, fuel systems compatibility and combustion (including emissions)
- Discusses the environmental impacts and carbon footprint of alternative fuels
- Features a chapter on electric flight and hydrogen powered aircraft and how its implementation will impact the aviation industry
Aviation fuel and combustion researchers, Masters and PhD students, program managers for aviation technologies. Chemical engineers who work in aerospace.
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Feedstock and pathways for alternative aviation fuels
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Alternative jet fuel research drivers
- 3. Life cycle assessments
- 4. Feedstock
- 5. Pathways
- 6. Conclusion
- Chapter 2. General compositions and alternative aviation fuel approval process
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Fuel standards
- 3. Approval of conventional fuels
- 4. Approval of alternative fuels
- 5. Summary
- Chapter 3. Ignition and relight, and impact of alternative fuels
- 1. Why ignition and relight are important
- 2. Gas turbine igniters
- 3. Parameters affecting the minimum ignition energy
- 4. Parameters affecting the ignition time delay
- 5. Alternative fuel impact on the ignition performance
- 6. Conclusion
- Chapter 4. Impact of alternative fuels on gaseous emissions
- 1. Introduction
- 2. NOx formation mechanisms
- 3. Gaseous emissions and alternative fuels
- 4. Conclusion
- Chapter 5. Impact of alternative fuels and fuel properties on PM emissions
- 1. What are particulate matter emissions?
- 2. Impact of particulate matter emissions
- 3. Measurement of particulate matter emissions
- 4. Ways to reduce particulate material emissions
- 5. Impact of alternative fuels on particulate matter emissions
- 6. Summary
- Chapter 6. Impact of alternative fuels and properties on elastomer compatibility
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Phenomena in seals
- 3. Elastomer material
- 4. Testing methods
- 5. Recent advancements in understanding elastomer fuel compatibility
- 6. Summary
- Chapter 7. Impact of fuel properties on lean blow off limit
- 1. Introduction
- 2. LBO mechanism
- 3. LBO detection method
- 4. Hardware and fuel impact on LBO
- 5. LBO prediction
- 6. LBO summary
- Chapter 8. Thermal stability and impact of alternative fuels
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Thermal stability
- 3. Fuel composition and thermal stability
- 4. Blending
- 5. Trace species
- 6. Generation of chemical kinetic mechanism
- 7. Experimental apparatus
- 8. Incidents involving fuel thermal stability
- 9. Outlook
- Chapter 9. Impact of alternative fuel properties on combustion instabilities, noise, and vibrations
- 1. Introduction to combustion instabilities
- 2. Categorizing instabilities
- 3. Combustion noise
- 4. Gas turbine instability, noise, and vibrations and previous work
- 5. Alternative fuels and their impact on noise and vibrations
- 6. Conclusions
- Chapter 10. Hydrogen fuel for aviation
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Hydrogen fuel
- 3. Historical aerospace applications of hydrogen
- 4. Hydrogen combustors
- Chapter 11. Electric-powered aircraft
- 1. Introduction
- 2. History of development of electric and hybrid aircraft
- 3. The future, conclusions
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: July 20, 2021
- Imprint: Academic Press
- No. of pages: 322
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128183144
- eBook ISBN: 9780128183151
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Bhupendra Khandelwal
Dr. Bhupendra Khandelwal is Associate Professor for fuels and combustion at The University of Alabama, USA. He earned his Ph.D. in Gas Turbine Combustion area at Cranfield University, UK in 2012. His research focuses on combustion, emissions and performance of alternative fuel to be used in gas turbine engines and other combustion systems. Prior to this position, Dr. Khandelwal held a position of assistant professor (lecturer) at the University of Sheffield in the Low Carbon Combustion Centre (LCCC). He was leading combustion and emissions research areas at LCCC. Dr. Khandelwal has received numerous awards and citations for excellence in research including awards from The Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS) and American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). He serves as technical area organizer, reviewer and associate editor of various international conferences, journals and funding agencies.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, The University of Alabama, USARead Aviation Fuels on ScienceDirect