@article{ref1,
title="A thermodynamic analysis of fuel vapor characteristics in an aircraft fuel tank ullage",
journal="Fire safety journal",
year="2002",
author="Huber, Marcia L. and Yang, Jiann C.",
volume="37",
number="5",
pages="517-524",
abstract="As a prerequisite to a comprehensive analysis of aircraft fuel tank fire and explosion hazards, a vapor-liquid equilibrium thermodynamic analysis was developed to assess the fuel vapor behavior in an aircraft fuel tank ullage. The analysis was based on the Peng-Robinson equation of state and the extended corresponding-states method. Jet-A fuel was treated as a pseudo-single-component fluid and as a binary mixture. The calculated fuel/air mass ratios from the binary-mixture model followed the trend observed in previous measurements more closely than those from the pseudo-single-component model. The calculated results also demonstrated that for a given amount of fuel, increasing the tank temperature could potentially cause an initially non-flammable fuel/air vapor in the ullage to become flammable.<p />",
language="",
issn="0379-7112",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}