Browse > Article
http://dx.doi.org/10.6108/KSPE.2020.24.5.001

Experimental Study on Heat Transfer Characteristics of Jet A-1 Fuel  

Lee, Junseo (School of Mechanical Engineering, Chungbuk National University)
Lee, Bom (School of Mechanical Engineering, Chungbuk National University)
Ahn, Kyubok (School of Mechanical Engineering, Chungbuk National University)
Publication Information
Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers / v.24, no.5, 2020 , pp. 1-12 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, the heat transfer characteristics of Jet A-1, which is used as a coolant and fuel in a regeneratively cooled thrust chamber, were experimentally studied. By varying the applied current for heating the cooling channel, the simulated specimen diameter, the specimen outlet pressure and the coolant flow rate, the wall temperatures of the specimen and the Jet A-1 temperatures at the specimen inlet/outlet were measured. It was found that the specimen diameter and the flow rate were important factors for the characteristics of heat transfer and the outlet pressure did not affect the performance of heat transfer. The results of the heat transfer experiments were compared with the previous Nusselt number empirical equations and novel Nusselt number empirical equations were finally derived.
Keywords
Regenerative Cooling Channel; Jet A-1; Heat Transfer; Electrical Heating System; Nusselt Number;
Citations & Related Records
Times Cited By KSCI : 1  (Citation Analysis)
연도 인용수 순위
1 Huzel, D.K. and Huang, D.H., Modern Engineering for Design of Liquid-Propellant Rocket Engines, 2nd ed., AIAA, Washington D.C., U.S.A., 1992.
2 Yoon, W., Ahn, K. and Kim, H., "An Experimental Study on Pressure Loss in Straight Cooling Channels, "Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers, Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 94-103, 2016.   DOI
3 Sieder, E.N. and Tate, G.E., "Heat Transfer and Pressure Drop of Liquids in Tubes, "Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, Vol. 28, No. 12, pp. 1429-1435, 1936.   DOI
4 Liang, K., Yang, B. and Zhang, Z., "Investigation of Heat Transfer and Coking Characteristics of Hydrocarbon Fuels, "Journal of Propulsion and Power, Vol. 14, No. 5, pp. 789-796, 1998.   DOI
5 Zhong, F., Fan, X., Yu, G. and Li, J., "Heat Transfer of Aviation Kerosene at Supercritical Conditions, "Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, Vol. 23, No. 3, 2009.
6 Park, H.H., Lee, Y.S. and Kim, S.J., "Experimental Investigation on Forced Convective Heat Transfer Characteristic Generated to Heated Tube, "Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers, Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 90-98, 2006.
7 Park, T.S., "Development of a Thermal Analysis Program for a Regenerative Cooling Passage of Liquid Rocket and Simulation of Turbulent Heat Transfer, "Journal of Computational Fluids Engineering, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 56-65, 2003.
8 Pei, X., Hou, L. and Ren, Z., "Kinetic Modeling of Thermal Oxidation and Coking Deposition in Aviation Fuel," Energy & Fuels, Vol. 31, No. 2, pp. 1399-1405, 2017.   DOI
9 Edwards, T. and Zabarnick, S., "Supercritical Fuel Deposition Mechanisms," Industrial & engineering chemistry research, Vol. 32, No. 12, pp. 3117-3122, 1993.   DOI
10 "Igor Pioro and Sarah Mokry (January 28th 2011) Heat Transfer to Supercritical Fluids, "retrieved 17 Jan. 2020 from https://www.intechopen.com/books/heat-transfer-theoretical-analysis-experimental-investigations-and-industrial-systems/heat-transfer-to-supercritical-fluids.
11 Dittus, F.W. and Boelter, L.M.K., "Heat Transfer in Automobile Radiators of the Tubular Type, "International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 12, pp. 3-22, 1985.   DOI
12 Winterton, R.H.S., "Where did the Dittus and Boelter equation come from?, "International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Vol. 41, No. 4, pp. 809-810, 1998.   DOI
13 Seo, H.W., "A Numerical Simulation of Regenerative Cooling Heat Transfer Process for the Liquid Propellant Rocket Engine, "Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 54-61, 1998.
14 Wang, H., Luo, Y., Gu, H., Li, H., Chen, T., Chen, J. and Wu, H., "Experimental Investigation on Heat Transfer and Pressure Drop of Kerosene at Supercritical Pressure in Square and Circular Tube with Artificial Roughness, "Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, Vol. 42, pp. 16-24, 2012.   DOI
15 Linne, D.L., Meyer, M.L., Edwards, T. and Eitman, D.A., "Evaluation of Heat Transfer and Thermal Stability of Supercritical JP-7 Fuel, "NASA TM-107485, 1997.
16 Green, J.M., Pease, G.M. and Meyer, M.L., "A Heated Tube Facility for Rocket Coolant Channel Research, "NASA TM-106968, 1995.
17 Lim, B.J., Lee, K.J., Kim, J.G., Yang, S.H., Kim, H.T., Kang, D.H., Kim, H.J., Han, Y.M. and Choi, H.S., "Hydrocarbon Fuel Heating Experiments Simulating Regeneratively Cooled Channels of LRE Combustor, "Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers, Vol. 11, No. 5, pp. 78-84, 2007.
18 Jeon, T.J. and Park, T.S., "Three-dimensional Turbulent Heat Transfer in a Liquid Rocket Engine with Regenerative Cooling Passages, "46th KSPE Spring Conference, Jeju, Korea, pp. 142-147, May 2016.
19 Lemmon, E.W., Huber, M.L. and McLinden, M.O., "NIST Reference Fluid Thermodynamic and Transport Properties-REFPROP V9.1, "NIST, Gaithersburg, M.D., U.S.A., Apr. 2013.
20 Liu, Z., Bi, Q., Guo, Y., Yan, J. and Yang, Z., "Convective Heat Transfer and Pressure Drop Characteristics of Near-Critical-Pressure Hydrocarbon Fuel in a Minichannel," Applied thermal engineering, Vol. 51, No. 1-2, pp. 1047-1054, 2013.   DOI
21 Wang, N. and Pan, Y., "Correlation for Heat Transfer of RP-3 Kerosene Flowing in Miniature Tube at Supercritical Pressures, "Modern Physics Letters B, Vol. 34, No. 12, pp. 2050116, 2020.   DOI
22 Welty, J.R., Wicks, C.E., Wilson, R.E. and Rorrer, G.L, Fundamentals of Momentum, Heat, and Mass Transfer, 5th ed., John Wiley & Sons Inc., New Jersey, N.J., U.S.A., 2007.