Abstract:
The chemical composition of 80 jet fuel samples was analysed by GC/MS, which is grouped into five categories of hydrocarbon compounds including n-paraffins, isoparaffins, cyclo paraffins, hydroaromatic and decalin. Several physical properties including density, flash point, freezing point, heating value and boiling range were measured by the standard ASTM methods. The database of compositionproperty relationship of the jet fuels was built up. The effect of chemical composition and boiling range on the physical properties was discussed. Combined with the Cookson′s models, 8 models were developed to predict the relationship of compositionproperties by multiple linear regressions (MLR), which gives a better prediction than the MLR correlations reported.