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National Aeronautics and Space Administration Alternative Fuels F-T Reactors installed in Alternative Fuel Laboratory HLPS Instrumentation • Planned Activities – Testing in P&W 308 and UHB engines for F-T fuel/Jet-A blends to measure gaseous and particulate emissions – Purchase additional alternative fuel - combined with Air Force purchase for F-T fuel – Alternative fuel testing using NASA DC-8 with CFM56 engines for static ground tests to measure gaseous and particulate emissions to allow complete disclosure of measurements – Combustion flametube testing in NASA flametube facility of NASA 9-point LDI, Complex Multi-Swirler Mixer from GE, and other industry low emission combustion concepts – Experiments to study algae and halophytes to measure production rates for Biofuel production 10
National Aeronautics and Space Administration F-T Fuel Characterization Thermal Stability per Fuel Breakpoint F-T Jet Fuel & U.S. Pipeline Jet-A 400 350 355 355 380 370 • Fuel breakpoint per ASTM D3241 Temperature, deg. C 300 250 200 150 100 270 270 265 270 275 265 270 • F-T jet fuel highly stable • F-T jet fuel & Jet- A mixture thermal stability is not linearly related to FT fuel content 50 0 0% 10% 30% 50% 70% 90% 100% Fuel Blend (Vol%, F-T Fuel) Initial Runs Repeats 11
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