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Project Dates: 10/1/2008 - 9/30/2010

Area of Research: Combusion

Federal Project Manager: Mark Freeman

Project Objective: The goal of this comprehensive research is to evaluate methods for characterizing fuel profiles of coal syngas and high hydrogen content (HHC) fuels and the level of mixing, and apply these methods to provide detailed fuel concentration profile data for various premixer system configurations relevant for turbine applications. The specific project objectives include: (1) Establish and apply reliable, accurate measurement methods to establish instantaneous and time averaged fuel distribution at several locations downstream of injection; and (2) evaluate how CFD software model coefficients and approaches within affect the overall accuracy of the simulations.