The development of a viable strategy for limiting coke deposition involves combining synergistic approaches for suppressing deposit buildup and reducing its impact on performance. Candidate approaches, including selection of favorable operating conditions (viz., pressure, temperature, heat flux, residence time, and passage size) and coke-tolerant heat exchanger designs, were investigated to evaluate their effectiveness and provide a basis for combining them into a single design philosophy. These approaches were evaluated through testing of current jet fuels in single-tubes and segments of heat exchanger configurations at temperatures up to 1000°F, pressures up to 1200 psi and liquid hourly space velocities up to 40,000/h. A key result of this work is the ranking of the importance of heat exchanger operating conditions on carbon deposition, with fuel temperature and those parameters that control species diffusion having the most pronounced impact. Residence time and pressure are of lesser importance. Alternative coke-tolerant heat exchanger designs featuring interchannel communication were evaluated and ranked, with several of these concepts demonstrating improvement over continuous passages.
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Deposit Formation and Mitigation in Aircraft Fuels
L. J. Spadaccini,
L. J. Spadaccini
United Technologies Research Center, East Hartford, CT
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D. R. Sobel,
D. R. Sobel
United Technologies Research Center, East Hartford, CT
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H. Huang
H. Huang
United Technologies Research Center, East Hartford, CT
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L. J. Spadaccini
United Technologies Research Center, East Hartford, CT
D. R. Sobel
United Technologies Research Center, East Hartford, CT
H. Huang
United Technologies Research Center, East Hartford, CT
Contributed by the International Gas Turbine Institute (IGTI) of THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS for publication in the ASME JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING FOR GAS TURBINES AND POWER. Paper presented at the International Gas Turbine and Aeroengine Congress and Exhibition, Indianapolis, IN, June 7–10, 1999; ASME Paper 99-GT-217. Manuscript received by IGTI Oct. 1998; final revision received by the ASME Headquarters Mar. 1999. Associate Editor: D. Wisler.
J. Eng. Gas Turbines Power. Oct 2001, 123(4): 741-746 (6 pages)
Published Online: March 1, 1999
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October 1, 1998
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Spadaccini , L. J., Sobel , D. R., and Huang, H. (March 1, 1999). "Deposit Formation and Mitigation in Aircraft Fuels ." ASME. J. Eng. Gas Turbines Power. October 2001; 123(4): 741–746. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.1383772
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