Abstract
Based on the typical on-board membrane separation system for fuel inerting, the mathematical models of temperature and pressure control subsystem and hollow fiber membrane were built with the coupled iterative numerical solution methods. While the temperature and pressure were controlled, the design area, nitrogen production effect of hollow fiber membranes were analyzed and compared with the situation of no temperature and pressure control in the full flight envelope by numerical simulation. Moreover, the root causes for those changes were found out. It shows that the method used in temperature and pressure control can increase the bleed air pressure and enhance the stability of temperature and pressure effectively. Compared with the situation of no temperature and pressure control, the temperature and pressure control method are able to decrease the demanded area of membrane by 42.3%∼51.7%. And there is no need to adjust the membrane area for condition of low nitrogen production efficiency. But it also decreases the highest nitrogen production efficiency by 9.4% and increase the minimum oxygen concentration by 0.65%. The rate of flow has the most significant effect on nitrogen production. These phenomena are caused by the effects of the rate of flow, pressure, temperature and membrane area.
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