TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2002//
TI  - A thermodynamic analysis of fuel vapor characteristics in an aircraft fuel tank ullage
JO  - Fire safety journal
A1  - Huber, Marcia L.
A1  - Yang, Jiann C.
SP  - 517
EP  - 524
VL  - 37
IS  - 5
N2  - 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 />
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SN  - 0379-7112
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -