Scaling Methodology of the FAA Burner for Pre-Qualification Fire Tests of Aircraft Engine Panels
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Abstract
Abstract The main objective of this work is to design a small kerosene burner to study the fireproofing capacity of aircraft composite materials exposed to an open flame. The standards AC20-135 and ISO-2685 describe how the fireproofing tests have to be performed and serve as guidelines to set the requirements for the design of a small kerosene burner as a less costly alternative to the larger FAA burner. The burner is fed with liquid jet-A fuel and air, which is flowing around the injector in a cylindrical chamber. The combustion generates an unconfined flame. The fuel injector selected is a Delavan spill-return pressure atomizer. There is a custom 3D printed plastic axial swirler at the inlet of the combustion area to promote better mixing between air and jet-A droplets. A computational fluid dynamic analysis (CFD) is presented to better understand the aerodynamic of the burner and to design adequately the swirler. The design of the burner allows changing easily the swirler to test swirlers with different vane angles. An experimental test bench is designed to test the effect of these swirlers on the heat flux measurements under multiple combinations of burner power and equivalence ratio at four axial locations. The experimental investigation allows selecting the final configuration and parameters for the burner. The chosen swirler has 15 vanes that are oriented at the exit at 25° to the burner axis. The best axial location for the measurements from the burner face to the position of the calorimeter is at 7.6 cm (3 in.). It is possible to generate a flame with a diameter smaller than 6.4 cm (2.5 in.) while reaching the required heat flux of 116 kW/m2. This accommodates smaller coupon sizes for the composite material and reduces cost for pre-certification FAA testing. To achieve this flame configuration, the burner power should be set between 10 kW and 20 kW with an equivalence ratio from 0.7 to 0.9.
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.001 |
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