Steam Fuel System in Ramjet Engine

Abstract:

Fuel consumption is more and major drawback in Ramjet. To minimize this problem, different techniques can be adopted. Paper deals with one such technique viz. Steam fuel system. To increase density of fuel this system has greater influence to decrease the fuel consumption at the same time thrust can be enhanced up to a large extend. Paper deals with comparison of fuel consumed in a simple Ramjet and Ramjet with steam fuel system. The experiments are carried out in a simple Ramjet and the corresponding pressure, temperature, velocity reading will be taken to calculate thrust. Similarly the experiments were conducted in Ramjet with steam fuel system and corresponding readings of pressure, temperature, velocity reading will be taken to calculate thrust. The result is expected to be increase in temperature and thrust compare to be simple ramjet.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 984-985)
• Pages: 967-969
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.984-985.967
• Online since: July 2014
• Authors: S. Jacob*, R. Chathhyan, M. Rajkumar, P. Balavino, P. Arikrishnan
• Keywords: Boiler, Ramjet, Spring Type Injector, Steam, Thrust

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