Liquid fuel/ja
Liquid fuel(液体燃料)はエンジン用の動力源で、エンジンによって酸化剤や吸気と共に燃焼に利用される。格納容器には液体燃料タンクや胴体がある。
ジェットエンジンも液体燃料を使用するため「ジェット燃料」という呼称が用いられることもあるが、両者に違いはない。
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Associated container and engine types
液体燃料タンクには液体燃料と酸化剤が、航空胴体には液体燃料のみが搭載されている。Rocket engines using liquid fuel and oxidizer use a volumetric mixture of 9 units of liquid fuel per 11 units of oxidizer. All but the Oscar-B Fuel Tank store liquid fuel and oxidizer in this ratio. Jet engines use intake air in a volumetric mixture of 1 unit of liquid fuel per 15 units of intake air. Because all three resources have the same density the volumetric ratio is also the mass ratio.
Flow and transfer
Liquid fuel's flow mode is adjacent. With the use of an FTX-2 External Fuel Duct nonadjacent tanks can be linked. Even without a fuel duct it is still possible to transfer fuel between them manually.
Real world equivalent
Although the official equivalent is unknown some compare liquid fuel to RP-1 a kerosene usually used in the first stages of a rocket. Both RP-1 and liquid fuel can be stored at room temperature without boiling off. But the mass mixture ratio of RP-1 and liquid oxygen, the common oxidizer for RP-1, is usually above 2 units of oxidizer per unit of RP-1 higher than the 1.22 for liquid fuel and oxidizer.[1][2]
関連項目
- Liquid rocket propellants on Wikipedia