Yanchen Fu

Experimental Study on Heat Transfer Characteristics to Supercritical Hydrocarbon Fuel in a Horizontal Micro-Tube

Supercritical hydrocarbon fuel experimental loop was constructed at Beihang University to study the heat transfer characteristics to supercritical hydrocarbon fuel. The test section, a stainless tube (1.86mm I.D., 2.26mm O.D., 1Cr18Ni9Ti) with the length of 300mm, was placed horizontally above the ground and the local heat transfer coefficients of the test section were systematically measured at fixed supercritical pressure of 5MPa. The mass flux varied from 786.5 to 1573 kg/ (m2 ·s), with the uniform heat flux from 180 to 450kW/m2 and the inlet fuel temperature ranged from 373 to 673K. The experimental investigation was confined to supercritical flows with heat addition only. Hence, heat losses were measured to be taken into consideration for every experimental condition.The experimental results were analyzed that heat transfer enhances at the reduced temperature Tb/Tpc rising from 0.95 to 1.04 and deteriorates when Tb/Tpc is larger than 1.04. The criterions of Shitman and Jackson were selected to judge the heat transfer characteristics in a horizontal micro-tube. The results indicated that buoyancy effects are ignored as the K<0.01 for the micro-scale tube and thermal acceleration is the main factor for the heat transfer characteristics. By direct comparison with an assortment of experimental data, a new correlation was proposed to be more accurate than others in predicting heat transfer phenomena for Chinese RP-3 hydrocarbon fuel in a horizontal micro-tube.Copyright

Coke Deposition Effect on the Flow Distribution Characteristics of Kerosene Under Supercritical Pressure

Performed experiments have studied the effect of coke deposition on the characteristics of flow distribution of aviation kerosene RP-3 at supercritical pressure. The whole experiment is divided into two steps: 1) making a coke tube; 2) paralleling the coked tube and a regular one with the same scale and observing the flow distribution status in different system pressure and total mass flow rate. The experimental results indicated that the deposition of coke made a great difference on the flow distribution of fuel.Based on experimental results, it’s demonstrated that the percentage of total mass flow rate in coke-free tube increases to 68.5%. Further analyses reveal the fact that the total mass flow rate has nearly no impact on flow distribution and the system pressure also influence the distribution very little. What’s more, the amount of coke vs axial position and total amount of coke in coked tube are mentioned in this paper, which is benefit in analysis of flow distribution.Copyright

Vibration Effects on Surface Coke Deposition of Hydrocarbon Fuel at Supercritical Pressure Condition in Micro-Tubes

Experiments are performed to study vibration effects on surface coke deposition of aviation hydrocarbon RP-3 under supercritical pressure. The flowing RP-3 kerosene is stressed to 5MPa, and heated up from 127°C to 450°C in a stainless tube (1.8mm I.D., 2.2mm O.D., 1Cr18Ni9Ti) with a constant heat flux, and the mass flow rate is 3g/s. The working fluids flow downward through an 1800mm long tube. The vibration frequency is set from 100Hz to 600Hz, covering the main frequencies of the combustion chamber vibration when it works. Compared with stable condition, vibration effects have a distinct impact on the flow resistance and heat transfer.The amount of coke deposition reduced under all different frequencies with the maximize decline of 40.46%. Moreover, restraining efficiency is proportional to the vibration energy. Besides, vibration enhanced the heat transfer, the coefficient of which comes to a wave crest at the zone of second-order modes of response to the peak area with the biggest vibration energy.© 2013 ASME