• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.405-409
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• 2010

금속분말을 청정 에너지원으로 이용하기 위해 금속분말 소형 연소기의 구현이 필요하다. 이를 위한 선행연구로 연료 공급 시스템인 핀틀인젝터형(pintle injector type) 금속분말 공급장치의 중요 성능인 분사량을 실험적으로 측정하였다. 분사량 측정 시험에 앞서 간단한 금속분말 공급 시험으로 확인된 문제점을 장치의 변경을 통해 해결하였다. 측정 시험의 결과, 연료 공급 장치에 이송 가스 압력이 상승함에 따라 많은 질유량의 금속분말이 분사되었고 압력에 따른 정량적 분사량을 확인하였다. 이송 가스와 금속분말의 혼합 성능을 개선하여 균일한 분사를 하고자 이송 가스를 25 Hz로 가진 하여 공급하였고 가진이 없는 경우의 실험결과와 비교하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2011.04a
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• pp.139-143
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• 2011

금속분말을 청정 에너지원으로 이용하기 위해 금속분말 소형 연소기의 구현이 필요하다. 이를 위한 기초 연구로서 점화성이 뛰어나면서도 경제적인 수십 마이크로 크기의 마그네슘(Mg) 분말을 대상으로 고온 증기(steam)와의 연소 현상 대해 연구하였다. 본 연구에서는 연소실 내 체류시간 및 혼합 효율을 증가시키기 위해 와류 유동을 연소기에 적용하였고 아르곤(Ar) 이송가스를 이용해 마그네슘 분말을 공급하였다. 안정한 화염을 유지시키기 위하여 이송가스의 유량을 변화시켜 공급되는 마그네슘의 양을 조절하였고, 고온 증기의 공급량은 니들 밸브의 개도를 조정하거나 우회시킨 관로로 증기의 일부를 배출함으로써 조절하였다. 고온의 점화원을 사용하여 증기 분위기 내 마그네슘 분말을 점화시켜, 대기압 환경에서 마그네슘/증기/아르곤의 지속적인 화염을 구현하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.554-557
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• 2011

One of the issues that occurs in development of a combustor using Metal Powder as a fuel is an alumina slag processing. A water film formed inside the combustor is expected to be able to solve this issue. The experiments about the formation of a water film were carried out as a preliminary study. As the tangential velocity of water jet is increasing, the angle derivation from horizontal is decreasing for the test model. Results of the experiments showed that the thin water film on the inner surface appeared at the velocity of 10~15 m/s.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.422-428
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• 2011

금속을 청정 에너지원으로 이용하기 위해 분말형 금속연료 연소시스템이 필요하고, 이에 대한 선행연구로 분말을 정량 공급할 수 있는 공급기를 설계 제작하였다. 유동층 방식의 분말 공급에 영향을 미칠 수 있는 변수들을 피스톤 및 벤츄리관이 적용된 공급 방법을 사용하여 통제한 후, 조절 가능한 공급기 내부 압력만을 변수로 하여 중요 성능인 분말 공급량을 직접적인 중량 측정 방법으로 측정하였다. 측정 실험의 결과로부터 연소시스템에 적용할 공급기의 작동 조건을 도출할 수 있었고, 작동 조건에서 벗어난 영역에서 분말 공급기가 가지고 있는 문제점을 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.12-19
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• 2022

The propellants used in the gas generator of the ducted rocket are fuel-rich propellants, which contain an excessive amount of metal fuel and a small amount of oxidizing agent compared to general solid rocket propellants. In this paper, boron powder and MgAl(Magnesium-Aluminium alloy) were applied to produce fuel-rich propellants. The optimum formulation was determined by characterizing these metal fuel-rich propellants. Analysis of combustion products in the gas generators confirmed that the fuel-rich propellants containing fine boron powder itself instead of boron-bead could be useful in gas generators.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.766-774
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• 2017

Software has been developed for simulating particle dispersion in a circular pipe with sudden-expansion, which models the fuel feeding system of a combustor that uses metal powder like aluminum as fuel. The Lagrangian based discrete tracer point method was employed for a plug flow of particles that satisfies local turbulent velocity fluctuations. A radial velocity component was created to improve the flow turning outwards in the recirculation zone. The particle distribution patterns from both with and without the component were directly compared with the experiments near the reattachment.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.864-870
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• 2017

The propellants are burned in the pre-burner of the staged combustion cycle engine, and the resulting hot gas drives the turbine, and the turbine operates the turbo pump. The burned gas passing through the turbo pump is supplied to the combustor at high temperature and high pressure, where the gas is supplied in an excess of fuel or an excess of oxidant depending on the amount of fuel or oxidant. When the cycle works at oxidizer-rich staged combustion, its metal pipe can ignite or explode by the impact of even small particles. In this study, we develop the powder combinations for anti-oxidation coating through the analysis of other coating materials and establish the coating process.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.445-450
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• 2011

Swirling flows inside a swirl mixing chamber are investigated for simple configuration where swirl is produced by a tangential entry type swirl generator. The flow downstream of the swirl generator has been quantified by measurements two velocity components and their corresponding mean values along axial and radial direction using Particle Image Velocimetry(PIV). The mass flow rate of the tangential entry is increased in order to study their effect on the flow field. From the measurement profile of velocity and vorticity, flow mixing characteristics in a swirl mixing chamber are evaluated.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.737-744
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• 2011

The success of continuous aluminum powder combustion with steam plasma is different from hydrocarbon ignition source. Ignition characteristics of aluminum powder with high temperature thermal plasma is studied with oxidizer-free environment. Experiment with argon plasma has same temperature conditions at 4500 K and particle feeding condition for previous combustion test with steam plasma and swirl combustor. The temperature of the plasma was measured using Optical Emission Spectroscopy method. Ignition characteristics were analyzed by SEM image and EDS. Aluminum powder with plasma has rapid evaporation mechanism contrast to hydrocarbon ignition source. It enhances to aluminum powder effective ignition characteristics.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.545-550
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• 2012

High Energy density metal powder has high melting point of oxide film. By this, the ignition source that can make a thermal effect of high-temperature during short time is needed to overcome ignition disturbance mechanism by oxide film. So effective ignition does not occurred with hydrocarbon ignitor, $H_2-O_2$ ignitor, high power laser. But steam plasma can be generate about 5000 K temperature field in short order. Because a steam plasma uses steam as the working gas, it is environmental-friendly and economical. Therefore in this study, we analyze steam plasma temperature field and radical species with optical emission spectroscopy method in order to apply steam plasma ignitor to metal combustion system and cloud particle ignition was identified in visual.