Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Institute of Aerospace Technology
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Aviation Program Group
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Institute of Aerospace Technology
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Aviation Program Group
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Aviation Program Group
JAXA AP-7 High-Temperature & High-Pressure Combustion Test Facility is a unique facility that can supply air at temperatures up to 1,000 K and pressures up to 5 MPa. In order to make this facility more attractive and useful in developing combustors of aero-engines, every effort has been made to increase flow rates of air up to 4.0 kg/s, which is the triple of the previous performance. A traversing measurement system and a direct monitoring system for combustion are also equipped in this facility. By virtue of the augmentation of airflow rate, we can meet the requirement, up to about 2 MPa, for conducting combustion tests of sector combustors, to be installed in the ECO engine, being aimed for production in the 'Research and Development for an Environment-Friendly, Small Aircraft Engine' project, supervised by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. Furthermore, this augmentation gives us an opportunity for developing a low-NOx fuel-injector for the single combustor of the next generation civil aero-engines, operating under high-pressure ratios. Having finished competitive combustion tests for examining performance of sector combustions for ECO engines, it is strongly anticipated for this facility to be used in refining the combustor, to be selected in the competition.