NLR's Turbine Engine Combustion Simulations Predict SAF Performance (Text Version)

This is the text version of the video NLR’s Turbine Engine Combustion Simulations Predict SAF Performance.

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[A commercial airplane flying in the sky with clouds is displayed at level height with the viewer.]

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Researchers at the National Laboratory of the Rockies use powerful computers to simulate fuel performance in an airplane’s fuel combustor.

[The video zooms in on one of the airplane’s engines, removing the outside of the engine to show the metal components that make up the inside of the engine.]

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The combustor is where a fuel’s chemical properties affect engine performance and the production of pollutants.

[The video zooms in further to show air moving through the engine until the screen stops over a section in the middle of the engine. An opaque gray box appears, covering the components with air moving through them, and the word “combustor” is spelled out to label the section.]

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Combustor.

[The center portion of the engine comes into focus, and a white box appears around one component in the center of the combustor. The ring-like component turns out toward the viewer to show the inside of the ring. The video shows air moving through the front of the ring. The ring turns to show the back of the ring with small fuel injectors lined around the edge of the ring, and burning fuel moving out the back of the ring as combustion energy. One injector moves toward the viewer and turns around in a circle to show the entirety of the injector, then it disappears.]

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Simulations like this can accelerate fuel certification processes and derisk private sector investments, saving time and money.

[The video zooms out from the engine close-up to show the commercial airplane leveling out and flying away from the viewer. The screen goes white.]

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