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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2007
Filed:
Aug. 12, 2004
Testing using a non-engine based test system and exhaust product comprising alternative fuel exhaust
Melvin Nathaniel Ingalls, Jr., San Antonio, TX (US);
Gordon James Johnston Bartley, San Antonio, TX (US);
Cynthia Chaffin Webb, San Antonio, TX (US);
Melvin Nathaniel Ingalls, Jr., San Antonio, TX (US);
Gordon James Johnston Bartley, San Antonio, TX (US);
Cynthia Chaffin Webb, San Antonio, TX (US);
Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX (US);
Abstract
A method for testing one or more test components including providing a non-engine based test system including a combustor in fluid communication with the one or more test components; supplying air and fuel to the combustor at an air to fuel ratio (AFR) and under feed conditions effective to produce a feedstream flowpath, wherein the fuel includes one or more alternative fuel which is gaseous at ambient conditions including atmospheric pressure and a temperature of about 20° C. or higher, the supplying air and fuel including feeding the one or more alternative fuel to a pressure regulator to produce one or more pressure regulated alternative fuel and feeding the one or more pressure regulated alternative fuel to the combustor; combusting at least a portion of fuel in the feedstream flowpath under combustion conditions effective to produce an exhaust product including one or more alternative fuel exhaust; and, exposing the one or more test components to the exhaust product under test conditions effective to produce one or more treated components.