Yes, as Floyd points out, gas turbines are the biodiesels of the rotary powerplant world and will burn pretty much anything you can put into them. That’s not without issue, however, fuel systems can be tweaked to handle things most of the time.
-D > On Jul 15, 2022, at 10:48 AM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > Basically if it will burn and flow through a pipe it can be burned in a > turbine. Might not be optimal, and might need to be tweaked a bit, but it > should work. > > I recall fueling a King Air once with avgas as for some reason we didn't have > any JetA. The pilot told me it was OK for some limited amount of total time > on the engines, I guess the fuel controllers adjusted for it somehow but > maybe it burned hotter or something, I don't know the details although I > should. > > --FT > > On 7/15/22 1:27 PM, Allan Streib via Mercedes wrote: >> Europe is in a natural gas supply crisis, and have started running gas >> turbine generating stations on kerosene, increasing demand for this refined >> product. >> >> Anyone else heard this? I know that turbine engines can theoretically run on >> pretty much any flammable liquid or gas, but it seems to me that large >> industrial gas turbines would be designed and optimized for a particular >> fuel. Would it be easy to just switch them to a different fuel type? >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archiveshttp://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> > -- > --FT > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
