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Combustion Database for Kerosene Fuels

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Air Force
Contract: FA8650-06-M-2624
Agency Tracking Number: F061-176-2031
Amount: $99,930.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: AF06-176
Solicitation Number: 2006.1
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2006
Award Year: 2006
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2006-04-04
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2007-01-04
Small Business Information
20 New England Business Center
Andover, MA 01810
United States
DUNS: 073800062
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Douglas Bamford
 Principal Research Scientist
 (925) 743-1110
 bamford@psicorp.com
Business Contact
 B. Green
Title: President, R&D Operations
Phone: (978) 689-0003
Email: green@psicorp.com
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

The Air Force needs a better understanding of liquid fuel combustion to develop hypersonic aircraft which can rapidly deliver militarily important payloads to distant places. The Air Force also requires the development of multiple fuels to lower the risk associated with a supply interruption for any particular fuel. To facilitate these missions, detailed experimental studies of liquid fuel combustion are needed. Our innovation is to combine recently-developed, widely-tunable mid-IR laser sources with shock tube facilities at Stanford University having enhanced capabilities (longer test times and amenability to liquid injection) to develop a data base of combustion properties (including ignition times and species concentrations) over a wide range of conditions relevant to the combustion of candidate jet fuels. The Phase I program will prove the feasibility of this approach by demonstrating a shock tube with longer test times and using it to measure species concentrations and ignition times under conditions relevant to Air Force applications. A detailed measurement campaign, designed to produce a data base for researchers in the field, will then be conducted in Phase II.

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