• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.347-350
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• 2006

The rocket grade hydrogen peroxide has been widely used as a monopropellant in propulsion systems. In the present paper, we described an experimental study of a catalytic reactor that employs two stage catalyst beds to enhance the low temperature performance of the reactor. $K_2MnO_4$ was chosen as the catalyst for the initial stage of the reactor bed for its superior behavior in the low temperature regime. LSC was used for the catalyst of the second stage of the reactor. The gas generator with combined catalyst beds was built and tested to exhibit high decomposition efficiency over 90% and successful cold-start characteristics.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.191-195
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• 2006

It is definitely required to control dispersion of the rocket engine performance in order to accomplish the mission of a launch vehicle successfully. A performance dispersion analysis was conducted for a gas generator cycle liquid rocket engine and the required pressure drops were estimated for engine tunning. As a result, the vacuum thrust dispersion of the engine was from +9.1% to -8.7% and the mixture ratio deviated from +9.7% to -9.6% from the nominal value due to the errors of components and the engine inlet condition of propellants. The required pressure drop in the LOx line to the combustor is higher than in the fuel line for same mixture ratio change.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.317-320
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• 2011

Hydrogen peroxide turbopump was designed for bi-propellant liquid rocket engine using hydrogen peroxide and kerosene as propellants. Turbopump operation was verified through water tests. Design conditions of hydrogen peroxide turbopump were determined, and impeller was designed. Turbine which drives pump was selected from commercial turbocharger. Gas generator was designed by reference from turbine map. Pump, turbine, gas generator were integrated, and turbopump system was constructed. Turbopump supplied water by 1.47 bar of pressure and as well as 3.4 kg/s of mass flow rate.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.135-138
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• 2006

We developed an engine system design program by balancing the pressure-mass-power relation which can be acquired from each component's specification. In gas generator type open-cycle rocket engine system it is possible to distinguish the variables into two categories, which are input variables and requirement variables. We define 11 design variables corresponding to the 11 balance equations as functions of pressure, mass and power of target engine system. We solved these equations by Newton method. As an example we designed gas generator cycle engine system and finally we could conclude that this developed program is well suited to the engine system design.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.36 no.11
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• pp.1132-1138
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• 2008

A program that can simulate gas generator after burning liquid rocket engines was developed along with presenting the characteristics of the engines. The program was written in Matlab and used GUI interface so that many users can use it without any difficulties. The results of the program was compared with the real engine which was developed by the LRE advanced country. Most of the parameters concurred within 1% error expect for the pressure at the turbopump. The reasons of the large differences were supposed that pressure decreases at the schematics were smaller than that of the real engines.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.18-25
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• 2008

A performance analysis program has been developed for the gas generator cycle liquid rocket engine. This program predicts the system performance with the performances of subsystems which are evaluated by the models based on another analyses or experiments. The analysis method has been validated by comparing the engine performance against the published conceptual design. The performance models of the subsystems have been verified to give reasonable results by comparing with the MC-1 engine design and the system analysis of 10 ton thrust engine. The system performance of the 30 ton thrust rocket engine using LOx/Jet-A1 has been presented as an application example.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.48-55
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• 2009

The purpose of using Gas Generator Oxidizer On/Off Valve(GOV) is to control opening and closing of oxidizer mass flow. This paper describes analytical results of flow and structural properties for four different GOV models, using commercial software such as Fluent(Ver. 6.3.26) and NASTRAN(2005 r.2), PATRAN(2005 r.2). Analytical results show that GOVs could generate 2.3~3.8 kg/s of oxidizer mass flow rate and come up with 1.09~1.42 of safety factor.

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.120-127
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• 2007

Performance dispersion in the engine should be considered to predict the flight accuracy of a launch vehicle. A dispersion estimation method was presented with a LOx/Kerosene gas generator cycle engine. The orifices in the propellant supply lines in the engine were assumed to be used for calibration of the performance and the required pressure drops were acquired. The dispersions after calibration were quantified also.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2007.05b
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• pp.3518-3523
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• 2007

An analysis program of specific impulse has been developed for a gas generator cycle rocket engine. The program has been verified by comparing the published performance data of the same cycle engine with RP-1 as fuel. A model for pressure drop of regenerative cooling and film cooling mass flow rate has been suggested to satisfy the necessary cooling condition with Jet-A1 as fuel. The engine mixture ratio is defined by the film cooling mass flow rate and the core mixture ratio. The optimal condition of the combustor pressure and engine mixture ratio has been found for maximum specific impulse.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.11-17
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• 2009

Hot-fire test of a turbopump for a gas generator cycle rocket engine of 30 ton class was carried out in real propellant environment. Liquid oxygen and kerosene were used for the oxidizer pump and the fuel pump, respectively, while hot gas produced by the gas generator was supplied to the turbine. A part of the propellant discharged from the pumps was provided to the gas generator. The turbopump was run stably at both on-design and off-design conditions, satisfying all the performance requirements. This paper describes one of the test cases, where the turbopump was run for 120 seconds at three different operating modes in one test. In terms of performance characteristics of pumps and turbine, the results from turbopump assembly test using real propellant showed a good agreement with those from the turbopump component tests using simulant working fluid.