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ABSTRACT

Presently, all the major fossil fuel driven companies/ industries are trying to change their fuel to more renewable, sustainable, and environmental-friendly alternatives to tackle the issue of climate change and global warming. The need for alternatives includes ones like alcoholic fuels, Biofuels, and other sustainable fuels. This paper provides a graphical comparison of fuels such as Diesel, Gasoline, Paraffin, Methanol and Ethanol on combustion with oxidizers such as Oxygen (Gas and Liquid), Nitrous Oxide, Hydrogen Peroxide based on varying Oxidizer – Fuel Ratio. The parameters on which they are being evaluated include Critical Temperature, Critical Pressure, Critical Velocity, Specific Impulse which are being calculated on ProPEP 3 software. These parameters are quite useful in the Aerospace Industry, Impulse and Specific Impulse determine the total thrust the engine can generate and Critical Temperature, Critical Pressure, Critical Velocity are the design parameters, on which the engine design is built.

Keyword: fuels, ProPEP3, oxidizer-fuel ratio, fuel characteristic, pressure, velocity, specific impulse, temperature, alcoholic fuels, petroleum fuels