Surrogate fuel development

Formulation of surrogate fuels for real transportation fuels

Conventional and alternative jet fuels

Emulating various physical and chemical properties of target fuels that influence combustion behavior using an optimization method


Gasoline fuels

Insights on the next generation fuel surrogates

Surrogate optimizations with different iso-alkanes to identify the ones that are more suitable as the surrogate component for jet fuels

Surrogate optimizations with additional hydrocarbon classes to find the one that leads to better property emulations with minimum increase in the number of surrogate components

Surrogate optimizations with perturbations in surrogate components vs weights in objective functions to compare their relative impact on the surrogate optimization process