Modelling of multi-component kerosene and surrogate fuel droplet heating and evaporation characteristics: A comparative analysis

Luke Poulton; Oyuna Rybdylova; Ivan Zubrilin; Sergei Matveev; Nikita Gurakov; Mansour Al Qubeissi; Nawar Hasan Imran Al-Esawi; Tajwali Khan; Vlad M. Gun’ko; S. S. Sazhin

doi:10.1016/j.fuel.2020.117115

Modelling of multi-component kerosene and surrogate fuel droplet heating and evaporation characteristics: A comparative analysis

Luke Poulton, Oyuna Rybdylova, Ivan Zubrilin, Sergei Matveev, Nikita Gurakov, Mansour Al Qubeissi, Nawar Hasan Imran Al-Esawi, Tajwali Khan, Vlad M. Gun’ko, S. S. Sazhin

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A Discrete Component Model (DCM) is applied to study the heating and evaporation of suspended kerosene and kerosene surrogate droplets. The effects of natural convection are taken into account using the Churchill approximation, whilst the effects of heat addition from the supporting fibre are modelled using the assumption that heat supplied via the fibre is uniformly distributed within the droplet volume. The results of taking into account and ignoring the above effects are investigated. It is shown that the effect of supporting fibre can be ignored in the analysis of these droplets. In contrast, the effect of natural convection cannot be ignored. The time evolution of droplet radii predicted by the DCM, taking into account the effects of natural convection and supporting fibre, is shown to be close to experimental predictions of this parameter for gas temperatures in the range 500 °C to 700 °C. The heating and evaporation of kerosene droplets are compared with those for droplets of various kerosene surrogate fuels, including eleven surrogate fuels proposed in the literature, and two original compositions. Considering the balance between the heating and evaporation characteristics of droplets we conclude that those of the original surrogate SU1 and the modified Utah surrogate are the closest to those of kerosene droplets.

Original language	English
Article number	117115
Number of pages	12
Journal	Fuel
Volume	269
Early online date	27 Feb 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2020.117115
Publication status	Published - 1 Jun 2020

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NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Fuel. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Fuel, 269, (2020)
DOI: 10.1016/j.fuel.2020.117115

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This work was supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (UK) [EPSRC Studentship 1792531 and grants EP/M002608/1 and EP/R012024/1], the Russian Science Foundation (project No. 19-79-00325) the Royal Society (project 192007) and the Institute of Space Technology of Pakistan (53201/IST/2017/1).

Keywords

Modelling
Droplet
Heat transfer
Evaporation
Mass transfer
Combustion
Convection
Surrogate fuel
Fuel droplet
Kerosene
petrol engines
Engine modelling
Heating
jet engines
Thermodynamic model
CFD

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Fuel Technology
Energy Engineering and Power Technology
Computational Theory and Mathematics
Analytical Chemistry
Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes
Automotive Engineering

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