Abstract
This study was carried out to investigate the thermal decomposition and execute EIDS slow cook-off test for the propellant ingredients and 2 kinds of HTPE propellants. The thermal analysis of the propellant ingredients used in this study showed that the thermal stability of these materials decreases in the following order : AP > HTPE > AN > BuNENA. In addition, propellant HTPE 002 containing AN showed that an endothermic process at around $125^{\circ}C$ corresponding to the solid phase change(II$\rightarrow$I) of AN was followed by the exothermic process of BuNENA/AN mixture up to $200^{\circ}C$. In EIDS slow cook-off tests, HTPE 001 and HTPE 002 reacted at around $250^{\circ}C$ and $152^{\circ}C$ respectively, and both of them showed sudden temperature increase curves at $115^{\circ}C$. The critical temperatures, $T_c$, of thermal explosion for the propellants HTPE 001 and HTPE 002, were obtained from both the non-isothermal curves at various heating rates and Semenov's thermal explosion theory. Kissinger's method that was used to calculate $T_c$ was also employed to obtain the activation energies for thermal decompositions.
본 연구에서는 Hydroxyl Terminated Polyether(HTPE) 추진제 원료 및 HTPE 둔감 추진제 조성 2종에 대하여 Differential Scanning Calorimetry(DSC)와 Thermal Gravimetric Analysis(TGA)를 사용하여 열분해 특성을 고찰하였고, EIDS 완속가열 시험을 수행하였다. AN이 포함된 HTPE 002는 약 $125^{\circ}C$에서 AN의 상전이과정(II$\rightarrow$I)을 거친 후, 약 $200^{\circ}C$범위까지 BuNENA와 AN이 함께 발열특성을 가지고 분해됨을 알 수 있었다. EIDS 완속가열 시험을 수행한 결과 HTPE 001은 $250^{\circ}C$, HTPE 002는 $152^{\circ}C$ 부근에서 반응이 있어났으며, 두 추진제 모두 $115^{\circ}C$부근에서 급격한 온도 상승이 일어났다. 추진제 HTPE 001과 HTPE 002의 열폭발에 대한 임계온도, Tc,를 Semenov의 열폭발 이론과 몇 가지 가열속도에서 측정된 비등온 곡선으로부터 계산되었고, 임계온도 계산에 사용된 열분해에 대한 활성화에너지는 Kissinger 방법으로 측정하였다.