Synthetic Aromatic Kerosene Property Prediction Improvements With Isomer Specific Characterization via GCxGC and Vacuum Ultraviolet Spectroscopy
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2022-07-01
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Abstract:This research explores an advanced method of fuel composition determination and builds upon typical hydrocarbon group type analyses performed with two-dimensional gas chromatography (GCxGC). In this study, structural information of individual species within Virent’s Synthetic Aromatic Kerosene (SAK) is identified by vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) spectroscopy. By mass, 71.3% of the components elute within six peaks of the chromatogram, from which 12 unique species are identified through a novel deconvolution method. Overall, the identification of 93.6%m across 26 structural isomers is made by the methods described in this work. With 93.6%m ascribed to specific isomers, the precision of fuel property predictions improves dramatically. For example, the absolute error of the viscosity prediction is reduced by 90% because of this advancement in diagnostic capability, and its 95-percentile confidence interval (precision only) is reduced by 93%. Additionally, the properties of SAK, blended with hydro processed esters fatty acids (HEFA), are demonstrated to have blended properties consistent with conventional jet fuel.
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Content Notes:This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Please cite this article as: John Feldhausen, David C. Bell, Zhibin Yang, Conor Faulhaber, Randall Boehm, Joshua Heyne, Synthetic aromatic kerosene property prediction improvements with isomer specific characterization via GCxGC and vacuum ultraviolet spectroscopy, Fuel, Volume 326, 2022, 125002, ISSN 0016-2361, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2022.125002.
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