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Endothermic Chemistry in SC Fuel Heat Exchanger

The increasing demand for higher cooling capacities in aviation fuels for the next generation of military aircraft may require the use of endothermic fuels, which have a high heat absorbing rate due to the conversion to small unsaturated hydrocarbons or hydrogen.

Advanced endothermic catalysis models have been implemented in CFD-ACE+ in conjunction with the supercritical fluid transport and chemistry models to analyze endothermic fuel systems. The catalysis model and SUPERTRAPP properties (as tabulated data of pressure, temperature and composition) for an MCH mixture are tested against experimental data.

Supercritical Fluids Apps


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Temperature and Conversion in a Catalytic Tubular Reactor for Endothermic MCH Flow
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