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There is a need in the gas turbine industry for an inexpensive fuel control unit for the new breed of high performance small gas turbine engines. To answer this demand, it is proposed to couple an automotive type fuel pump with a stepper motor driven in microstepping mode. The speed of the motor and the fuel flow rate can be controlled by the frequency signal from the computer. This concept is particularly well suited for the gas turbine engine fuel supply where the fuel pressure at low speed is low and the fuel leakage in the pump is not high. The stepper motor driven by a microstepping driver can reach high speeds of several thousands rpm. The unit can be installed inside the fuel, supply tank, as is the case with electric fuel pumps found in automobiles. Prototypes have been made and tested. Both steady state and transient response are showing an impressive performance of such an electronic fuel metering pump.

Optimization of diesel injection system using computer aided design involves complex high speed, high pressure hydraulic transient process calculation. To find the fuel discharge characteristic from injector, the fuel pumping process is first computed based on the design parameters of the injection pump. Then, knowing the forward propagating pressure wave, the dynamic response of the injector is calculated resulting in the fuel discharge process. However, if the forward pressure wave could be precisely measured instead of being calculated, and then substituted into the computer program the total calculation procedure would be substantially reduced. In this paper, a computer controlled data acquisition system with high sampling rate was used to record the fuel pumping process in a specially made long pipe to avoid distortion by the reflected pressure wave. This method is convenient, quite accurate and can save the time of computer simulation.