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A Review on Alternative Fuel Spray Characteristics

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Proceedings of International Conference of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering 2019

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Air transport is already a well-known transportation in assuring the need of worldwide social connection and commercial purposes. Nowadays huge demand on aviation fuel increases severe tense due to depletion of fossil fuel. Furthermore, the increases of greenhouse gas emission from the fossil fuel reduces the environment quality and human life. Hence, an attention towards alternative aviation fuel from renewable sources has become a priority as it could offer greener aviation. However alternative fuel must be compatible in comparison of the conventional fuel in terms of its physical properties such as viscosity, energy density, sustainability, affordability and availability. Those properties will affect spray characteristics and leads to combustion quality. Therefore, this study presents a review on the different alternative fuels and their compatibility in the aircraft engine. The importance of spray characteristic on the engine and different experimental approach to examine the spray characteristics of fuel particularly the penetration length, spray morphology, cone angle and atomization of the fuel also are presented. This work is beneficial in providing understanding on alternative fuels and spray atomization examination.

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Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank Universiti Sains Malaysia Research University Grant (Grant No: 1001/PAERO/8014019) and USM Fellowship, for the support to this study.

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  1. School of Aerospace Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Engineering Campus, 14300, Nibong Tebal, Malaysia

    Qummare Azam, Ahmed M. Alhaj & Nurul Musfirah Mazlan

  2. School of Mechanical Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Engineering Campus, 14300, Nibong Tebal, Malaysia

    Ayub A. Janvekar

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  1. School of Aerospace Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Nibong Tebal, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia

    Parvathy Rajendran

  2. School of Aerospace Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Nibong Tebal, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia

    Nurul Musfirah Mazlan

  3. School of Aerospace Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Nibong Tebal, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia

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    Norizham Abdul Razak

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Azam, Q., Alhaj, A.M., Janvekar, A.A., Mazlan, N.M. (2020). A Review on Alternative Fuel Spray Characteristics. In: Rajendran, P., Mazlan, N., Rahman, A., Suhadis, N., Razak, N., Abidin, M. (eds) Proceedings of International Conference of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering 2019 . Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4756-0_1

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