- Author
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Arai, M.
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Saito, K.
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Altenkirch, R. A.
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Evans, D. D.
- Title
- Study of the Boilover Phenomenon for Liquid Fuel Supported on Water.
- Coporate
- Kentucky Univ., Lexington
National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Sponsor
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
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Paper 2,
- Contract
- NBS-GRANT-60NANB7D0739
- Book or Conf
- National Bureau of Standards. Final Report. Volume 1. Papers Presented at Conferences and Submitted for Publication. Volume 2. Experimental Developments in the Combustion of Crude Oils. August 1, 1987-December 15, 1988, Saito, K. Editor(s), 186 pp, 1988. and Combustion Institute/Central States Section. May 2-3, 1988, Indianapolis, IN, 1-6 pp, 1988 IL, 1-6 pp, 1988.,
1988
- Keywords
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crude oil
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liquid fuels
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water
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combustion
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boiling point
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ignition
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boilover
- Abstract
- We previously reported the design of a burner system in which the burning surface of a liquid fuel supported on a water sublayer is fed into the flame so that the relative position of the fuel surface with respect to the burner rim remains fixed. Nine different single-component and six different multicomponent fuels were tested, and only the results for some of the single-component fuels were reported. We found that when boilover occurs, i.e., when the heat transfer from the flame through the fuel to the water is sufficient to boil the water, the temperature gradient across the fuel layer vanishes, the temperature level of the fuel decreases, and the burning rate of the fuel decreases with the progress of combustion.