REI has considerable experience in chemical kinetic modeling of aviation fuel combustion and in the development of reduced mechanisms for aviation fuels for use in CFD simulations.

PAH Soot Precursor Molecules

Practical aviation fuels, such as Jet-A and JP-8 are a complex mixture of thousands of hydrocarbon components that are manufactured to meet certain property standards. The exact composition varies in time and place depending on crude feedstocks and refinery processes. Modeling aviation fuel combustion requires selection of a surrogate fuel blend containing a few species with known kinetics that reproduces the essential combustion behavior of a typical batch of the actual fuel.

The kinetic models are able to predict the formation of NOx as well as soot precursors.

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Measured and calculated ignition delay for JP-8/air, Initial pressure = 1 atm, equivalence ratio = 0.5