Experimental and Computational Analysis of an Additive Manufactured Vaporization Injector for a Micro-Gas Turbine

Vaporization injectors have been in existence for decades and are a well-proven method of preparing liquid fuels for combustion by heating them above the boiling point of their heaviest hydrocarbon ingredient. By doing so, it converts the fuels into a vapour prior to combustion. When attempting to apply this method of fuel vaporization to micro gas turbines, manufacturing difficulties arise, due to the small complex passages that are required to...