A rapid compression machine (RCM) has been designed and built for investigating the autoignition characteristics of bio-derived jet and diesel fuels. The RCM has been designed with a particular emphasis on versatility, so that non-volatile fuels may be tested in a premixed gas phase, as a fuel spray, or as an aerosol in an oxidizing bath gas. A blend of these test approaches provides insight in...

Fuel is a major cost expense for air carriers. A typical airline spends 10% of its operating budget on the purchase of jet fuel, which even exceeds its expenditures on aircraft acquisitions. Thus, it is imperative that fuel consumption be managed as wisely as possible. The implementation of Flight Operations Quality Assurance (FOQA) programs at airlines may be able to assist in this management ...

Nitrate enhanced bioremediation solubility of oxygen. Nitrate is more soluble than oxygen and is less expensive. The significance of the nitrate bioremediation at Traverse City is that the concentration of nitrate used in the bioremediation was below Federal drinking water standards. that when nitrate and nutrients were added, they could be evenly distributed In order to determine the effects o...

This paper proposes novel Fuel Cell Auxiliary Power Unit (FCAPU) for J150+ aircraft application. The primary version of APU in J150+ aircraft is a gas turbine Auxiliary Power Unit (APU) which is based on gas turbine jet engine but in the suggested FCAPU, the generated electrical power is achieved from chemical energy with higher efficiency. The Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) technology is used to...

PBPK MODELING ASSESSMENT OF THE COMPETITIVE METABOLIC INTERACTIONSFOR M-XYLENE, ETHYLBENZENE, AND A LUMPED AROMATIC FRACTION OF JP-8JET FUEL VAPORJerry L. Campbell and Jeffrey W. Fisher Jet Propellant 8 (JP-8), a kerosene-based jet fuel used in the military, is composed of hundreds of hydrocarbons. A PBPK model was developed to assess the metabolic interactions of JP-8 vapor on ...

Seeds of members of the genus Cuphea accumulate medium-chain fatty acids (MCFAs; 8:0-14:0). MCFA- and palmitic acid- (16:0) rich vegetable oils have received attention for jet fuel production, given their similarity in chain length to Jet A fuel hydrocarbons. Studies were conducted to test genes, including those from Cuphea, for their ability to confer jet fuel-type fatty acid accumulation in s...

Seeds of members of the genus Cuphea accumulate medium-chain fatty acids (MCFAs; 8:0–14:0). MCFAand palmitic acid(16:0) rich vegetable oils have received attention for jet fuel production, given their similarity in chain length to Jet A fuel hydrocarbons. Studies were conducted to test genes, including those from Cuphea, for their ability to confer jet fuel-type fatty acid accumulation in seed ...