Soon it was understood that the advancement of aviation turbine technology required the development of a new generation of fuels that are effective in addressing the new issues that emerged with the new challenges posed by increased flight speed and altitudes. In light of those issues, kerosene was eventually chosen as a base fuel for the new path in the engineering of aviation fuels. However, gasoline presented a major problem: at the time, it had a low flashpoint which made fires much more likely in case of accident.Īnother relevant issue with gasoline was its low rate of vaporization, the property of a liquid fuel to turn into a gaseous state. Eventually, only lamp kerosene and car gasoline were used in the final prototype flights. The early experimental flights were accomplished by burning hydrogen, gasoline, diesel, and kerosene for illumination. The first jet engines were developed between 19 in Germany and Great Britain. In aviation, the propulsion by mean of an aviation gas turbine engine (jet engine) powered with jet fuel is a forward movement generated by the rear ejection of a high-speed heated flux/jet of combustion gasses.

Jet Fuel, Engineering and Technology History Wiki. It is recommended this article be cited as:į. The original version of this article was created by Francesco Gerali, 2019 Elizabeth & Emerson Pugh Scholar in Residence at the IEEE History Center The cleaning of this combustion waste is a delicate operation implemented by means of special devices working with fluids at controlled pressure. Example of carbon deposits in fuel lines.

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