• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.157-162
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• 2006

A Liquid Rocket Engine(LRE) ground firing test facility was built in Korea Aerospace Research Institute(KARI) in 2001 to develop the LRE for the first Korean liquid rocket, KSR-III. Around 170 tests were conducted since its establishment until recently by September 2006, and in the meantime, a considerable improvements were made in the capability. This paper describes the outline, conducted tests and operation techniques which have been accumulated through the operation of KARI LRE ground firing test facility.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.71-80
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• 2010

The KSLV-II(Korea Space Launch Vehicle-II) which being a successor of the KSLV-I is a space launch vehicle capable of delivering 1.5 ton-class satellite into a low earth orbit. The development of a 75 tonf-class liquid rocket engine(LRE) is planned on the basis of the technologies mastered through the preceded research of a 30 tonf-class LRE. The thrust chamber of the LRE is required to have higher combustion stability, structural integrity and thermal durability. This paper deals with the design requirements of the 75-tonf thrust chamber and a variety of technical considerations which have been conducted analytically in the course of the design for the realization of the requirements.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.43-49
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• 2007

A ground firing test facility for Liquid Rocket Engine(LRE) combustor was built in Korea Aerospace Research Institute(KARI) in 2001 to support the development of the first Korean LRE for the KSR-III. About 170 tests were conducted up to date since its establishment and in the meantime a considerable improvements were made in the facility capability. This paper describes the outline, conducted tests and operation techniques which have been acquired through the operation of the test facility.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.15-18
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• 2009

Technology demonstration for the development of a 75-tonf liquid rocket engine(LRE) thrust chamber for a space launch vehicle has been started on the basis of the previously acquired 30-tonf LRE technologies. For this purpose, a technology demonstration plan was established upon considering the currently available firing test facility in Korea and performance evaluation firing tests were performed on technology demonstration model thrust chambers under a restricted test condition. This paper describes the plan and current status of technology demonstration for a 75-tonf LRE thrust chamber.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.61-64
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• 2017

The gas-generator open cycle is adapted for liquid rocket engine of Korea Space Launch Vehicle-II. The combustion instability can interfere with combustion performance and cause a noise and vibration or carry the potential for serious damage. This study introduces the experience cases of combustion instability in development of the gas generator for liquid rocket engine.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.125-129
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• 2009

The basic design of liquid rocket engine combustion chamber for a large space launch vehicle was described. It has vacuum thrust of 74.8 ton, vacuum specific impulse of 306.9 sec, chamber pressure of 60 bar, mass flow rate of 243.6 kg/s and combustion characteristic velocity of 1730 m/sec. The details of combustion performance and geometrical parameter were also given. The 75 ton combustion chamber consists of the combustor head with injector and the chamber/nozzle with regenerative cooling channels.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.54-58
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• 2017

A combustion instability has been one of the most serious problems in the development of combustion devices including rocket engine and gas turbine. In particular, a high-frequency combustion instability generated by resonant coupling between combustion phenomena and acoustic oscillations within thrust chamber causes severe damage to the hardware. Because it is accompanied by high amplitude pressure oscillations and excessive heat flux to the chamber wall. Therefore, combustion instability is one of the difficult problems that must be resolved in developing liquid rocket engine. This paper describes the cases of combustion instability encounted during the development of thrust chamber for KSR-III and KSLV-II.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.189-192
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• 2004

Test Facility for hot firing test of small size liquid rocket engine has been developed to research the cooing characteristics of kerosene for cylinder part especially. Propellants for the tests are kerosene and liquid oxygen as fuel and oxidizer respectively and they are fed by gaseous nitrogen. The engine components used hot firing test except for cylinder are cooled by tap-water. Valves for supply of propellants and coolants are controlled by pneumatically. System control and data recording are conducted automatically.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.52-60
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• 2010

Combustion stability tests of 30 $ton_f$-class LRE thrust chamber with double swirl coaxial injector were carried out in domestic ground combustion test facility by means of artificial perturbation method. In these tests, thrust chambers with varying design factors like recess number of injector, baffle length, types of film cooling and chamber diameter were used and test results showed that these design factors are closely related with high frequency combustion stability. By using the oscillation decrement instead of the decay time in the combustion stability analysis of artificially perturbed LRE thrust chamber, it was confirmed that increment of damping factor results in the improvement of high frequency combustion stability of LRE thrust chamber.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.608-612
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• 2009

Technology demonstration models(TDM) of a 75-$ton_f$ liquid rocket engine(LRE) thrust chamber were manufactured on the basis of development technologies of 30-$ton_f$ LRE. It was confirmed that some machining and welding technologies which were aimed to be verified through the manufacturing of demonstration models could be applied to the thrust chamber 75-$ton_f$-class. New designed mixing head part was manufactured by means of new process. The manufacturing process and technologies established through TDM's will improve the reliability of manufacturing process of large LRE thrust chamber.