Functional Group Analysis of Evaporation and Liquid Combustion of Jet-A and Its Surrogate Fuel Based On Quantitative FT-IR Measurements

This paper reports the evaporation and combustion experiments of small amounts of pool liquid fuel and the preliminary quantification of functional groups including: CH2, CH3, t-butyl, iso-propyl and mono-substituted aromatics using light absorbance in the wave number range of 400-4000 cm -1 . The goal was to develop a method that formulates evaporation characteristics for a complex real fuel and use the results to establish a surrogate’s...