Oxidation behavior of dodecane and two mixtures of dodecane and m-xylene (90/10wt.% and 80/20wt.%) over an Rh catalyst in a meso-scale heat recirculating combustor was examined to isolate the effect of aromatic content on performance. The fuel conversion, product selectivities, and reaction...

Colorless Distributed Combustion (CDC) has been demonstrated to provide ultra-high combustion intensity, increased performance in terms of ultra-low emissions, uniform thermal field, combustion stability and enhanced efficiency. CDC has been examined under both swirling and non-swirling...

Ultra-high thermal intensity colorless distributed combustion has been examined for our quest to achieve near zero pollutants emission and enhanced performance. Reverse-cross flow configuration has been investigated at thermal intensities in the range of 270–420MW/m3-atm with specific focus on...

The performance of two synthetic aviation fuels was evaluated in a meso-scale heat recirculating combustor and the respective results compared with the combustion characteristics of a conventional petroleum-based jet fuel. One of the alternative jet fuels was synthesized via a Fischer–Tropsch...

The need for fuel flexible ultra-low emission gas turbine combustors is imminent to secure future power needs. Distributed combustion technology is demonstrated to provide significant performance improvement of gas turbine combustors including uniform thermal field in the entire combustion...

Distributed combustion provides significant improvements under high intensity conditions characteristic of gas turbine to provide uniform thermal field (improved pattern factor), ultra-low pollution, enhanced stability and higher efficiency. Mixing between fresh air/fuel stream with hot reactive...

High intensity distributed combustion assists to provide substantial performance improvement for gas turbine applications for our quest to simultaneously seek improved pattern factor, ultra-low emission of NOx and CO, low noise, enhanced stability, fuel flexibility and higher efficiency. In such...

Combustion characteristics of colorless distributed combustion have been investigated for application to gas turbine combustors. Very high intensity distributed combustion has been shown for application to stationary gas turbine engines. Various configurations examined have revealed reverse...