In scramjets, hydrocarbon fuels are being considered for their endothermic potential and for use in flights where compact, volume critical designs are required at flight speeds at Mach 5+. Long-chain hydrocarbon (LCHC) fuels, like aviation kerosene, have handling and storage advantages over hazardous and volatile fuels, like hydrogen, that are more aligned with current flight systems. This research investigates the conditions under which kerosene fuel (JP-8 + 100) may be used in a supersonic duct at a hypervelocity impulse facility. Experimental data on kerosene ignition lengths for temperatures in the range 1100-1550 K, pressure of 1 atm, and equivalence ratios of 0.2-2.5 are compared with ignition delay correlations from literature
