• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.26 no.6
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• pp.10-20
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• 2022

The present study developed a design code for preburner of staged combustion cycle engines, which calculates preburnt gas at high-pressure oxidizer-rich conditions and predicts conjugate heat transfer and hydraulics of cryogenic fluid flow through cooling passages. It has been written based on the open-source library Cantera, into which this study has incorporated new source codes to predict correctly non-ideal thermodynamics and transport anomalies of the cryogenic fluid. For a preburner of 100 tonf-class booster engine currently under preliminary design, the present code demonstrated predictive capability and usability as a design code by comparing with CFD simulation.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.109-118
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• 2018

Korea Aerospace Research Institute has developed a staged combustion cycle rocket (SCCR) engine with high specific impulse to send a 3-ton class satellite into geostationary orbit while conducting a Korean Space Launch Vehicle (KSLV) II project. The SCCR engine is different from the KSLV-II engine, which is an open cycle engine using a gas-generator. The SCCR engine with a closed cycle engine is composed of a pre-burner, a turbo pump, and a main combustor. The technology demonstration model (TDM0) was assembled and tested in the 7ton-class engine combustion test facility of Naro Space Center, and the combustion test was successfully conducted.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2001.11b
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• pp.167-171
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• 2001

Air-staging combustion is a relatively well-known technique to reduce NOx emission and used in combination with other techniques nowadays. However, the design variables are still selected depending upon operating circumstances. Though the fuel-rich condition of the primary combustion zone is very helpful to NOx reduction, its range is known to be restricted by the increase of carbon monoxide. However, in many cases carbon monoxide level is so low not to be the restriction at all. So we tried to expand the equivalence ratio range to the richer condition in the primary combustion zone and make the function of each burner component and its contribution to the overall NOx production clear.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.38 no.12
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• pp.963-969
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• 2014

Four coal sources that had different ash contents were evaluated in a drop tube furnace (DTF). Combustion experiments were conducted by using several sources with different particle sizes and excess air ratios under air-staging conditions to determine the optimized combustion conditions of high-ash coal, with an emphasis on the combustion efficiency and NOx emissions. The results show that the higher ash content results in a large amount of carbon remaining unburned, and that this effect is dominant when the largest particle size is used. Furthermore, the ash content of coal does affect the Char-NOx concentration, which decreases with the particle size. The results of this study suggest that an air-staged system can be useful to reduce the NOx emissions of high-ash coal and that control of the air stoichiometric ratio of the primary combustion zone (SR1) is effective for reducing NOx emissions, especially by considering unburned carbon contents.

• 연구논문집
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• s.27
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• pp.101-108
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• 1997

The characteristics of combustion and emissions in multi-staged oil burner have been experimentally studied for the various range of equivalence ratios, drop sizes and fuel formulations. Malvern system was used to measure droplet size of fuel. Light fuel oil and light fuel oil doped with pyridine($C_5H _5N$) were used to investigate the effects on fuel NOx emission. The emissions of NO and CO in exhaust gas and the flame temperatures were measured by the gas analyzer and thennocouples. NOx emissions were increased by increasing the excess air ratio (range:$lambda=1.1-1.4$) or decreasing the SMD of droplet in single-staged burner. In comparison with the single-staged burner, the emission of NOx in multi-staged burner was reduced by 50% but CO emission was slightly increased. It is found that multi-staged burner has a good capability in reducing thermal NOx resulting from the distributed heat release rate and lower flame temperature in fuel-rich and fuel-lean combustion zone. Moreover, the fuel NOx emission of the multi-staged burner is lower than that of single-staged burner, because multi-staged burner has fuel rich zone where fuel N is converted to $N_2$ more than NO. In 3-staged burner, the percentage of each stage combustion air have strong influence on emission characteristics. It is also found that NOx emission can be reduced by decreasing inner and outer air percentage or increasing middle air flow rate and CO emission is vice versa.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society for Energy Engineering kosee Conference
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• 1996.10b
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• pp.85-90
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• 1996

석탄 직접연소의 신기술인 Cyclone 연소기술은 환경오염저감 기술증의 하나로서, 고온 연소로 인해 회분이 연소실 내부에서 용융, 제거된 후 고온의 청정연소가스만 보일러로 유입된다. 또한 연소기의 fuel-rich 연소조건하에서 생성된 고온의 불완전연소가스는 보일러 입구에서 충분한 재연소공기를 공급함으로서 완전연소시킬 수 있으므로 적은 시설투자 비용으로 기존 오일이나 가스용 보일러를 석탄용으로 전환이 용이할 뿐만 아니라 이러한 다단 연소방식을 채택하여 NOx 제어도 가능하다는 이점이 있다. Cyclone 연소기술의 개발은 석탄의 청정연소 뿐만 아니라 그 기술을 토대로 석탄가스화, MHD 발전, 가연성 폐기물 소각등에도 활용할 수 있다. 따라서 국내 기술자립을 위해 실험용 Cyclone 연소기를 설계, 제작 및 연소실험을 수행한 결과, Peco-semi탄을 연료로 공급량 약 30 kg/hr, 공기비 약 1.0 일 때 탄소전환율은 약 95% 이며 회분제거율은 약 70%임을 확인할 수 있었다.

• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.37 no.2
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• pp.149.1-149.1
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• 2012

고성능 다단연소싸이클 엔진은 산화제과잉 예연소기를 사용한다. 예연소기 후류에 위치한 배관 및 연소기 헤드 등은 고온/고압 산화제 과잉 환경에 놓이게 되며, 운용 조건에서는 국부적으로 온도를 상승시키는 외부 발화제에 의하여 녹는점보다 낮은 온도에서 재질이 발화될 수 있다. 따라서, 이러한 환경에 적합한 재질 및 코팅은 내산화성, 내인화성 및 자발화성도 중요하나, 외부 발화제에 의한 내발화성이 가장 중요한 특성이 된다. 여기서는 이러한 환경에 적합하며 지상 시험용 노즐 및 배관에 적용될 수 있는 재질 및 코팅에 대하여 조사한다. 러시아는 이미 이러한 환경에 적합한 재질 및 코팅들을 개발하여 RD-170, 180에 적용 중이다. 그러나 미국은 최근에 이러한 연구를 시작한 것으로 추정된다. 따라서 자료 접근이 가능한 범위에서 러시아의 재질 및 코팅을 조사하며, 미국 자료에서는 산소 시스템 안전 등과 같이 간접적인 자료들을 통하여 대체가 가능한 후보 재질 및 코팅을 조사한다. 다단연소싸이클 연소시험 배관에 적용할 수 있는 방법은 다음과 같다. 코팅 없이 Monel K500을 사용하거나, OFHC 혹은 Ni 라이너에 고강도 외피를 사용하는 방법이 있으나, 두 방법 모두 재질의 가격 및 수급, 라이너 적용 방법 등이 어려울 수 있다. 국내에서 산화제과잉 가스 환경에서 적용할 수 있는 법랑을 개발하거나 수급이 용이한 법랑을 찾아 오스테나이트 스테인리스강에 적용하는 방법이 있다. 이 방법은 외부 발화제에 대한 내발화성을 증가시키는 경제적이고 용이한 방법으로 판단된다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.21-24
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• 2010

The cooling channel of the preburner for staged combustion engines was studied. The combustion pressure of the researched preburner is about 210 bar which is very high compared with the engines of the Korean Launch Vechicle and 30 ton class liquid rocket engines developed as a pre-research program. Also, the combustion is an oxygen rich process unlike the gas generators of open cycle kerosene engines. Thus the cooling process is very important to make the preburner stable. Many configurations for the preburner were developed and numerically analyzed. As a result, the pressure loss could be reached below the target.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.34 no.10
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• pp.71-79
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• 2006

Swirl injector with multi-stage tangential entry was analyzed to suppress high-frequency combustion instability in Liquid Rocket Engines. In order to analyze the effect of swirl injector as an acoustic absorber, swirl injector was regarded as a quarter-wave resonator and it's damping capacity is verified in atmospheric temperature. It has a finite mode of vibration and natural frequencies which can be tuned to the natural frequencies of a model combustion chamber. The interior air core shape of injector is more stable in the case of using the swirl injector with multi-stage entry than with single-stage entry. Also, when the swirl injector with multi-stage entry is used, tuned-injector length for unstable mode is well agreed with the calculated length. From the experimental data, it is proved that if the interior air core shape of swirl injector is stable, the fine tuned swirl injector can decrease the unstable mode of model chamber effectively and increase the damping rate.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.36 no.12
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• pp.1180-1185
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• 2008

In-house code which simulates the performance of pre-burner in staged-combustion liquid-fueled rocket engine was developed and demonstrated. Chemical reaction of pre-burner was modeled based on analytic algorithm of CEA (Chemical Equilibrium with Applications) and gas dynamics model was incorporated with it. Comparison results between in-house code and CEA have shown small relative errors except at very high or very low O/F ratio. Also the performance curve obtained by in-house code revealed that the calculated values follow the overall trend of real engine (RD-8) performance quite well and at steady-state operation, the deviation became very small.