• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.533-536
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• 2010

It has been manufactured the a prototype of the oxygen rich preburner which can be used for a small high performance liquid rocket engine. Based on the model designed and analyzed by KARI a series of the work was made. First, the layout was drawn and then two kinds of the test specimen were devised and manufactured for the hydraulic and pressure test respectively. It was confirmed that the details in designing and manufacturing the preburners. All of them efforts may help establish the bases to develop high performance liquid rocket engine.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.869-872
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• 2011

Ignition tests of an oxidizer rich preburner for a staged combustion cycle liquid rocket engine were performed to evaluate combustion performance. Design operation conditions of the tested oxidizer rich preburner are about 60 of OF ratio and 20 MPa of combustion pressure. The entire kerosene and some LOx injected into the mixing head is burned in combustion chamber and the remaining LOx injected through center holes of combustion chamber is vaporized. Full flow ignition method with hypergolic fuel was used. Each propellant was supplied in two stages for soft ignition. Test results, low frequency oscillation was occurred in low flow rate conditions under 45% of design flow rate. Stable ignition in the course of design combustion pressure was able to induce by minimization of low flow rate ignition region to escape low frequency oscillation.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.614-615
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• 2010

The propellants distribution of an oxidizer rich preburner was predicted by a simplified physical approach. The Mixing head is composed of honeycomb array of 7 fuel injectors and 24 oxidizer injectors. The OF ratio of the mixing head is 15. As results, the OF ratio of the central area is about 9 and the OF ratio of the wall area is about 30.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.118-125
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• 2019

Metals exposed to high temperature/high pressure/oxidant excess environment of an oxygen excess pre-combustor may undergo rapid oxidation. In this study, the test facility to simulate the high temperature/high pressure/oxidant excess environment was constructed and the oxidation resistance evaluation was carried out for various metal materials. As a result, the discoloration of the metallic materials, the change in the surface roughness and the peeling of the metal surface were observed, and the weight change was also observed. The resulst showed that oxidation-resistant coating of a metal material of the combustor is indispensably required, and the use of XM-19, which has the highest content of Cr and Ni, is expected to provide more structural stability.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.52-57
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• 2018

This paper presents the design and cold flow test results of oxidizer-rich preburner injectors for a 9 tonf-class staged combustion engine cycle. Three types of coaxial swirl injectors were designed, and 12 injectors were designed for each type. The diameters of the fuel tangential holes are identical. The diameters of the oxidizer tangential holes were varied to investigate the influence of combustion in the oxidizer-rich preburner according to the momentum ratio of the gas oxidizer generated from combustion in the injector chamber and liquid oxidizer through the cooling channel. It will be verified through a powerpack and combustion test using an oxidizer-rich preburner. In the cold flow test, the fuel flow rate and oxidizer tangential hole flow rate reached the target value based on the designed differential pressure.

• 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.

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.63-69
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• 2014

The oxidizer-rich preburner's combustion tests were fulfilled in the development process of staged combustion cycle rocket engines. The exhaust plume from an oxidizer-rich preburner is relatively transparent because combustion takes place in oxidizer rich state. During hot fire tests a still and infrared images were captured to visualize the plume structure, temperature distribution and so on. In addition, the exhaust plume was numerically investigated to figure out the detailed characteristics. The combustion was not considered for the numerical modeling, but the mixing of exhaust plume with circumstantial air was modeled by species transport model with several turbulence models. The inner structure of plume was configured out by the comparison of numerical results with experimental results, and the validity of applied numerical models was verified.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2011.04a
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• pp.97-100
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• 2011

It is critical to set up the starting sequence of liquid rocket engines because not carefully arranged process can lead the engine damages. Thus, many efforts were made to prevent the hard start at the ignition. Hypergolic fuels are frequently used to ignite LRE and TEAL, one of the hypergolic fuel is also used for kerosene-LOx LRE ignition. However, since we are still lack of experiences igniting oxygen rich preburners of the staged combustion cycle engines, it would be helpful to estimate the TEAL ignition phenomena before the actual tests.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.48-56
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• 2008

In the rocket preburner, oxidizer-rich combustion with liquid oxygen and kerosene is very challenging work. The key factor of stable flame is good mixing and that is controlled by the injector performance. We have studied spray characteristics of the oxidizer-rich rocket preburner injector in high pressure environments. The injector is composed of fuel orifices, oxidizer orifices and cooling skirt with liquid oxygen. By using this apparatus, we have taken photographs and measured Sauter mean diameter with changing ambient pressure from 0 to 30 kgf/cm2[g]. Droplet diameter is measured by the image processing technique. From the test results, we could understand spray characteristics of the oxidizer-rich preburner injector and this result could be applied to the development of the oxidizer rich preburner system.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.122-127
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• 2013

The paper includes the analytic results of pressure fluctuation data from the combustion of an oxidizer-rich preburner applicable to high-performance, closed-cycle liquid rocket engine systems. The combustion experiments went through two different steps of a chamber pressure during single run. Self-excited pressure fluctuations with a frequency of 78 Hz were observed only at the relatively low chamber pressure condition. These pressure fluctuations are regarded as a bulk mode. The intensity of pressure fluctuations by a root-mean-square value is 13.3% normalized by the chamber static pressure and no pressure excitation was observed at the design pressure condition. The bulk mode has an identical phase across the inside of the chamber and reveals the similar characteristics to the Helmholtz resonator.