Protocol of Test Methods for Evaluating High Heat Sink Fuel Thermal Stability Additives for Aviation Jet Fuel JP-8+100

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert W. Morris ◽  
Minus Jr. ◽  
Zabarnick Donald ◽  
Balster Steven ◽  
Binns Lori ◽  
...  
Author(s):  
W. E. Harrison ◽  
H. C. Mongia ◽  
S. P. Heneghan ◽  
D. R. Ballal

Jet fuel requirements have evolved over the years as a balance of the demands placed by advanced aircraft performance (technological need), fuel cost (economic factors), and fuel availability (strategic factors). In a modern aircraft, the jet fuel is the primary coolant for aircraft and engine subsystems and provides the propulsive energy for flight. To meet the evolving challenges, the U.S. Air Force, industry and academia have teamed to develop new and improved fuels that offer increased heat sink and thermal stability, properties that will enable improved aircraft design and decrease fuel system maintenance due to fuel fouling/coking. This paper describes the team effort to develop improved JP-8, named “JP-8+100”, that offers a 55C (100F) improvement in thermal stability and a 50% increase in heat sink. The government, industry, and academia team has made numerous advances in the development of JP-8+100 with a more complete understanding of the fundamental processes of deposition, new approaches to reducing fouling/coking, and new tests and models to assist the designers of aircraft and engine fuel systems. Some of the principal advances are: new quantitative research devices and fuel system simulators that provide thermal stability information that cannot be obtained using the standard JFTOT test; new techniques to measure oxygen consumption and fuel degradation pathways; a free radical theory to explain behaviors such as the inverse relationship between thermal and oxidative stability, advanced CFD models with coupled degradation chemistry, and a new thermal stability ranking scale for jet fuels. The insight obtained has been applied to the development of an additive package for JP-8 that shows thermal stability improvements equal to or greater than the stated goal and enables the development of even higher thermal stability fuels such as JP-900.


2013 ◽  
Vol 455 ◽  
pp. 466-469
Author(s):  
Yun Chuan Wu ◽  
Shang Long Xu ◽  
Chao Wang

With the increase of performance demands, the nonuniformity of on-chip power dissipation becomes greater, causing localized high heat flux hot spots that can degrade the processor performance and reliability. In this paper, a three-dimensional model of the copper microchannel heat sink, with hot spot heating and background heating on the back, was developed and used for numerical simulation to predict the hot spot cooling performance. The hot spot is cooled by localized cross channels. The pressure drop, thermal resistance and effects of hot spot heat flux and fluid flow velocity on the cooling of on-chip hot spots, are investigated in detail.


1996 ◽  
Vol 118 (3) ◽  
pp. 170-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. P. Heneghan ◽  
S. Zabarnick ◽  
D. R. Ballal ◽  
W. E. Harrison

Jet fuel requirements have evolved over the years as a balance of the demands placed by advanced aircraft performance (technological need), fuel cost (economic factors), and fuel availability (strategic factors). In a modern aircraft, the jet fuel not only provides the propulsive energy for flight, but also is the primary coolant for aircraft and engine subsystems. To meet the evolving challenge of improving the cooling potential of jet fuel while maintaining the current availability at a minimal price increase, the U.S. Air Force, industry, and academia have teamed to develop an additive package for JP-8 fuels. This paper describes the development of an additive package for JP-8, to produce “JP-8+100.” This new fuel offers a 55°C (100°F) increase in the bulk maximum temperature (from 325°F to 425°F) and improves the heat sink capability by 50 percent. Major advances made during the development of JP-8+100 fuel include the development of several new quantitative fuel analysis tests, a free radical theory of autooxidation, adaptation of new chemistry models to computational fluid dynamics programs, and a nonparametric statistical analysis to evaluate thermal stability. Hundreds of additives were tested for effectiveness, and a package of additives was then formulated for JP-8 fuel. This package has been tested for fuel system materials compatibility and general fuel applicability. To date, the flight testing has shown an improvement in thermal stability of JP-8 fuel. This improvement has resulted in a significant reduction in fuel-related maintenance costs and a threefold increase in mean time between fuel-related failures. In this manner, a novel high-thermal-stability jet fuel for the 21st century has been successfully developed.


1993 ◽  
Vol 115 (3) ◽  
pp. 284-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. H. Bhavnani ◽  
C.-P. Tsai ◽  
R. C. Jaeger ◽  
D. L. Eison

Liquid immersion cooling is rapidly becoming the mechanism of choice for the newest generation of supercomputers. Miniaturization at both the chip and module level places a severe constraint on the size of the heat sink employed to dissipate the high heat fluxes generated. A study was conducted to develop a surface that could augment boiling heat transfer from silicon surfaces under these constraints. The surface created consists of reversed pyramidal features etched directly on to the silicon surface. Experiments were conducted in a saturated pool of refrigerant-113 at atmospheric pressure. The inexpensive crystallographic etching techniques used to create the enhanced features are described in the paper. The main characteristics of interest in the present study were the incipient boiling superheat and the magnitude of the temperature overshoot at boiling incipience. Results were obtained for test sections with various cavity densities, and compared with data for the smooth untreated surface. It was found that incipient boiling superheat was reduced from a range of 27.0–53.0° C for the untreated silicon surface, to a range of 2.5–15.0° C for the enhanced surfaces. The overshoot also decreased considerably; from about 12.0–18.0° C for two classes of untreated surfaces, to a range of 1.5–5.3° C for the enhanced surfaces. The values of the incipient boiling superheat, and those of the overshoot decreased with a decrease in cavity mouth size. Two ratios of heat source surface area to the area of the enhanced surface were studied. The overshoot values obtained for these surfaces were compared with those observed for some commonly used enhanced surfaces. An elementary numerical study was conducted to estimate the magnitude of heat spreading.


1996 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Heneghan ◽  
S. Zabarnick ◽  
D. Ballal ◽  
W. Harrison, III

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