Ice crystals ingested by a jet engine at high altitude can partially melt and then accrete within the forward stages of the compressor, potentially causing performance loss, damage and/or flameout. Recent research into this ice crystal icing (ICI) phenomenon conducted at the National Research Council of Canada suggests that the liquid water content vliq of an accretion significantly affects the accretion's susceptibility to erosion by ice crystals, and therefore accretion growth. This paper describes the development and application of an instrument for measuring vliq, potentially providing a method for correlating erosion behavior (e.g. as ductile or brittle) and properties. The instrument measures the complex admittance Y* of a mixed-phase deposit bridging a pair of electrodes, which is modeled as a resistor and capacitor in parallel, and calculates the deposit's relative permittivity εr from the capacitance. Experiments and electrostatic simulations were conducted to correlate εr as a function of vliq for vliq up to ∼40%, using calorimetry to determine vliq. These measurements were made at an excitation frequency of 2MHz, where the relative permittivities of ice and liquid water are insensitive to change of frequency. The paper also describes icing tests where the instrument was used to measure vliq as a function of freestream liquid-to-total water content (LWC/TWC) for two test articles, a cone and a forward-facing cup. The measurements show that vliq lies in the range 25-33% when LWC/TWC is in the range giving worst accretion (LWC/TWC∼10-20%). The instrument is also used to measure thickness growth rate for the cup.


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    Title :

    Development and Application of an Impedance-Based Instrument for Measuring the Liquid Fraction and Thickness of Ice Crystal Accretions


    Additional title:

    Sae Technical Papers


    Contributors:
    Fuleki, Dan (author) / Currie, Tom (author)

    Conference:

    SAE 2015 International Conference on Icing of Aircraft, Engines, and Structures ; 2015



    Publication date :

    2015-06-15




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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