IGNITION QUALITY TESTER CHARACTERIZATION WITH PURE COMPONENT AND CONVENTIONAL NAVY FUELS

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dc.contributor.advisorGupta, Ashwani Ken_US
dc.contributor.authorMendelson, Jacob Leeen_US
dc.contributor.departmentMechanical Engineeringen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-25T06:40:11Z
dc.date.available2017-01-25T06:40:11Z
dc.date.issued2016en_US
dc.description.abstractThe U.S. Navy is attempting to reduce dependence on conventional diesel fuels as a part of the environmental initiative commonly referred to as “The Great Green Fleet”. The purpose of this research was to characterize the measurements of ignition delay gathered by the Advanced Engine Technology Ignition Quality Tester (IQT) with conventional Navy diesel fuels, pure component biodiesel fuels, primary cetane standards, and toluene-hexadecane blends. The use of computational analysis with pressure traces gathered from the IQT allowed for the comparison of IQT ignition delay results with various methods of calculating start of combustion for various fuels. Physical and chemical ignition delays of each fuel were also calculated using different separation techniques and the chemical ignition delay results were compared with prior academic literature and with chemical ignition delays calculated with Lawrence Livermore kinetic theory.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/M2QK01
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/19093
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledMechanical engineeringen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledAlternative energyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledCombustionen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledDerived Cetane Numberen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledDieselen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledIgnition Delayen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledIQTen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledNavyen_US
dc.titleIGNITION QUALITY TESTER CHARACTERIZATION WITH PURE COMPONENT AND CONVENTIONAL NAVY FUELSen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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