The crashworthiness of helicopter fuel tank is vital to the survivability of the passengers and structures. In order to understand and improve the crashworthiness of the soft fuel tank of helicopter during the crash, this paper investigated the dynamic behavior of the nylon woven fabric composite fuel tank striking on the ground. A fluid-structure interaction finite element model of the fuel ta...

This life cycle design (LCD) project was a collaborative effort between the National Pollution Prevention Center at the University of Michigan, General Motors (GM), and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The primary objective of this project was to apply life cycle design tools to guide the improvement of fuel tank systems. Two alternative fuel tank systems used in a 1996 GM vehicl...

In the aspect to facilitate and enhance the vehicle’s features such as speed, mileage and volumetric level of fuel by providing it with the detection of level and restrict illicit activities using sensor. It is implemented using Vehicle Area Network (VAN) and embedded design. It suggests a computerized technique in heavy vehicles. Due to the high costs, theft more and more every day and the res...

Often when fuel prices rise as they have during 2005, weights and measures officials see an increase in the number of complaints related to the accuracy of gasoline pumps (retail motor-fuel dispensers). Frequently, weights and measures jurisdictions report receiving consumer complaints from motorists who believe they filled their vehicle's fuel tank with more gasoline than the tank is specified...

A technology has been devised and recently deployed in highway vehicle transportation to protect vehicle fuel tanks from impact-induced fires. The technology is currently employed in the FIRE Panel product, which exhibits an improved design based upon powder panel technology used for decades to protect military aircraft from ballisticinduced fuel tank-fed fires. The device comprises a shallow s...

Misfueling of a general aviation aircraft with a Jet Fuel instead of an Avgas can have dire consequences. In this paper simple non-destructive testing method is proposed using two capacitive fuel senders that are vertically displaced in a fuel tank by a small distance to detect such situation. Method is based on different readings for the same fuel level in a tank (as fuel senders are displaced...

This report summarizes modeling studies supporting the second phase of quarter-scale testing for the NTSB investigation of the TWA Flight 800 accident. In this study, fuel-air tests were conducted to replicate earlier tests to assure repeatability of results. The quarter-scale test tank was redesigned to use heated Jet-A fuel/air mixtures at reduced ambient pressures. Although violent combustio...

Fuel vapour composition and flammability properties of E85 A series of experiments have been conducted to study the flammability characteristics and determine the flammable temperature range of E85 fuel vapours. E85 is a mixture of ethanol and petrol the composition varies depending on time of the year. According to the Swedish standard, SS 155480:2006, the ethanol content may not be below 70 %...

The use of Generator has become a very common in almost every passive infrastructure companies, Industries, hospitals, Townships etc, while by using these Generators, a number of challenges are faced by the users and companies. Among all other challenges fuel stealing from the generator fuel tank has become an alarming issue as the price of the fuel is touching sky high day by day. Although man...

Fuel thermal management has become an important consideration in the design and operation of modern high performance aircraft. In many cases, fuel is a primary heat sink for thermal loads associated with the cooling of the airframe as well as propulsion, electronic, actuator, and payload systems. It is now common for thermal systems to recirculate warm fuel to the tanks, resulting in a rise in ...