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Project Dates: 8/1/2007 - 9/30/2010

Area of Research: Combusion

Federal Project Manager: Mark Freeman

Project Objective: The key end work product will be a model and a validating data set that can be used by industry for calculating the turbulent flame speed of syngas mixtures at temperatures and pressures of practical interest. This will allow gas turbine designers to develop systems sufficiently robust to operate on the range of expected syngas fuel mixtures, and for operators to predict changes that may be required to handle new fuel supplies. Objectives are to improve understanding of turbulent flame speeds of syngas fuels, to measure turbulent flame speeds of syngas fuels at conditions relevant to gas turbine combustors, and to develop predictive flame speed models that can be used by gas turbine manufacturers to develop syngas combustors.