A single tube flow heat exchanger was designed and built to thermally stress Jet A-1 with air-saturated and deoxygenated levels of dissolved oxygen over a range of fuel temperatures, pressures, and flow rates. Liquid samples of thermally degraded Jet A-1 were analyzed using various physical and optical methods to determine which methods were sensitive enough to measure compositional changes in thermally degraded liquid fuel and to correlate these changes to the measured amount of deposits produced. Temperature programmed oxidation (TPO) was shown to be successful in measuring deposit quantity and structure, while UV-visible absorption and UV-visible fluorescence were sensitive enough to quickly measure the relative population growth of large aromatic compounds that lead to deposit formation in thermally stressed Jet A-1.

A single tube flow heat exchanger was designed and built to thermally stress Jet A-1 with air-saturated and deoxygenated levels of dissolved oxygen over a range of fuel temperatures, pressures, and flow rates. Liquid samples of thermally degraded Jet A-1 were analyzed using various physical and optical methods to determine which methods were sensitive enough to measure compositional changes in thermally degraded liquid fuel and to correlate these changes to the measured amount of deposits produced. Temperature programmed oxidation (TPO) was shown to be successful in measuring deposit quantity and structure, while UV-visible absorption and UV-visible fluorescence were sensitive enough to quickly measure the relative population growth of large aromatic compounds that lead to deposit formation in thermally stressed Jet A-1.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1989. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [261]-269).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Tufts University, 2004. / Adviser: Haris Doumanidis. Submitted to the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 123-129). Access restricted to members of the Tufts University community. Also available via the World Wide Web;

Thesis (M.S.)--Oregon State University, 2008. / Printout. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 90-92). Also available on the World Wide Web.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2008. / Title from title screen (site viewed Apr. 9, 2009). PDF text: xvii, 113 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 3 Mb. UMI publication number: AAT 3339351. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in microfilm and microfiche formats.