NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) : One pdf

NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) : One

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The NASA Glenn Research Center is working with the aeronautics industry to develop highly fuel-efficient and environmentally friendly gas turbine combustor technology. This effort includes testing new hardware designs at conditions that simulate the high-temperature, high-pressure environment expected in the next-generation of high-performance engines. Glenn has the only facilities in which such tests can be performed. One aspect of these tests is the use of nonintrusive optical and laser diagnostics to measure combustion species concentration, fuel/air ratio, fuel drop size, and velocity, and to visualize the fuel injector spray pattern and some combustion species distributions. These data not only help designers to determine the efficacy of specific designs, but provide a database for computer modelers and enhance our understanding of the many processes that take place within a combustor. Until recently, we lacked one critical capability, the ability to measure temperature. This article summarizes our latest developments in that area.

Recently, we demonstrated the first-ever use of spontaneous Raman scattering to measure combustion temperatures within the Advanced Subsonics Combustion Rig (ASCR) sector rig. We also established the highest rig pressure ever achieved for a continuous-flow combustor facility, 54.4 bar. The ASCR facility can provide operating pressures from 1 to 60 bar (60 atm). This photograph shows the Raman system setup next to the ASCR rig. The test was performed using a NASA-concept fuel injector and Jet-A fuel over a range of air inlet temperatures, pressures, and fuel/air ratios

• Creator/s: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS
• Date: 3/1/2002
• Year: 2002
• Book Topics/Themes: NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS), COMBUSTION CHAMBERS, GAS TURBINE ENGINES, RAMAN SPECTRA, TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT, COMBUSTION TEMPERATURE, TEST FACILITIES, FUEL INJECTION, JET ENGINE FUELS, Hicks, Yolanda R., Locke, Randy J., DeGroot, Wilhelmus A., Anderson, Robert C

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