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The Past and Future Perspectives of Hydrogen Peroxide as Rocket Propellants

발사체 추진제로서 과산화수소의 과거와 미래전망

  • 하성업 (모스크바국립항공대학교 로켓엔진학과) ;
  • 권민찬 (모스크바국립항공대학교 로켓엔진학과) ;
  • 서견수 (한국항공우주연구원 발사체사업조정팀) ;
  • 한상엽 (한국항공우주연구원 추진제어팀)
  • Published : 2009.07.01

Abstract

In the field of rocket propulsion system hydrogen peroxide has been used as mono-propellant and as the oxidizer of bi-propellants. At the beginning, hydrogen peroxide was used as mono-propellant for thrusters, but later it had been replaced by hydrazine, which has better specific impulse and storability. On the other hand, to drive turbo-pumps, hydrogen peroxide is still being utilized. As the oxidizer of bi-propellants it was used until 1970's and from 1990's hydrogen peroxide once again got back to developer's interest, because one of the recent development purposes of rocket propulsion system is low-cost and ecologically-clean. Until now the storability of hydrogen peroxide has been remarkably improved. The combination of Kerosene/$H_2O_2$ also shows similar accelerating performance to Kerosene/$LO_x$ combination because of higher propellant density and higher O/F ratio, even though the propulsion performance is not as good as the combination of Kerosene/$LO_x$. Moreover, its combustion products are much cleaner than Kerosene/$LO_x$ combination.

로켓추진기관에 있어 과산화수소는 단일추진제와 이종추진제의 산화제로 사용되어 왔다. 과산화수소는 추력기용으로 사용된 최초의 단일추진제였으나, 후에 보다 비추력이 높고 저장성이 좋은 하이드라진으로 대체되었고, 터보펌프 구동용으로는 여전히 사용되어지고 있다. 이종추진제의 산화제로서는 1970년대까지 사용되었다. 1990년대에 들어서 저비용, 친환경적인 개발이 중요하게 대두되면서 과산화수소는 다시 개발자들의 관심의 대상이 되었다. 과산화수소의 저장성능이 과거에 비해 크게 개선되었으며, 케로신/과산화수소를 추진제 조합으로 사용하는 경우 케로신/액체산소를 사용하는 경우에 비하여 가속성능은 다소 떨어지나, 높은 추진제밀도와 O/F 비로 인하여 유사한 가속성능을 얻을 수 있으며, 연소생성물 역시 더욱 청정하였다.

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