• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.107-110
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• 2009

A basic design for a Technical Development Model (TDM) of liquid oxygen lines from the turbopump exit to the oxidizer valves of the combustion chamber and the gas generator was conducted to develop a turbopump-fed liquid rocket engine. The TDM is composed of straight lines, elbows, bellows, a branch, an orifice, flanges and a heat insulator. Materials were determined by consideration of operation conditions, weight constraint and manufacturing procedures. The size and the location of each component were determined by flow analysis of the required flowrate and the pressure loss. Basic designs of the components were conducted by consideration of the operating temperature and the maximum expectation operating pressure. The safety factors were evaluated by structural analysis of design of each component.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2007.04a
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• pp.34-37
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• 2007

Propellant filling and holding test was carried out using liquid oxygen as a working fluid. The feeding line system has a filter at propellant tank outlet. Vaporization of liquid oxygen during holding after completion of filling and effect of vaporization to recirculation performance in this system was observed. Filling rate and pressure of tank ullage had the effect on state of liquid oxygen in feeding line. There was no geysering in feeding line during holding because of the position of filter.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.9-17
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• 2007

The performance test of recirculation line in propellant feeding system was carried out. Liquid oxygen was used as cryogenic propellant and helium was used as recirculation promotion gas. Tests were done in cases at atmospheric pressure and at pressure of 4 barg in the ullage space of propellant tank. Liquid oxygen recirculation flowrate with helium injection flowrate and temperature distribution along the line were measured. There was appropriate helium injection flowrate for gas-lift recirculation system. Test data were used to make calculation program by test data correlation method. In this paper the procedure of calculation was presented and the results were compared to test data.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.122-126
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• 2006

Two types of pressurization system and low weight feeding piping system are developed. With sub-system tests, ullage pressure control performance was verified for 1 step and 2 step pressurization system and the feeding performance of feeding piping system was also verified. The weight of the feeding piping system is low enough for the application of launch vehicle. In addition, LOX conditioning system is developed for avoiding geysering and LOX temperature rise. Integrated performance was verified through integrated on-board feeding system performance tests.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.273-277
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• 2009

An oxidizer tunnel-type pipe, which shall transport oxidizer from an oxidizer tank to a turbo-pump of an engine, studied is installed through a fuel tank located under an oxidizer tank. A tunnel-type pipe can save weight compared to a detour-type pipe, however may vary the temperature of fuel stored in a fuel tank because of a broad heat transfer area. Hence in this study the characteristics of main oxidizer pipe and thermal propagation from oxidizer to a fuel tank are monitored by a cryogenic performance test with a tunnel-type pipe. In addition, the possibility of adaptation of an oxidizer tunnel-type pipe to launcher system is also analyzed.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.50-57
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• 2021

Engine cool down process is necessary for the liquid rocket engines using cryogenic propellants in order to meet the requirement of engine inlet temperature. This paper evaluates the cool down characteristics of oxidizer supply pipeline and engine in prechill process prior to the engine firing tests, and calculate the quantity of liquid oxygen consumption.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.108-116
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• 2018

A firing test of the 75 tonf-class liquid rocket engine to be used as the first and second stage engines of the KSLV-II was carried out at the rocket engine test facility(RETF). Since this engine uses liquid oxygen as the oxidizer, which is a cryogenic fluid, it is essential that the chill down of the supply pipe line and engine proceed for the firing test; thus, the given inlet requirements must be met. Moreover, it is important to understand the chill down characteristics of the facility and the engine and the amount of liquid oxygen consumed in the chill down process for efficient test operation in the future. In this paper, chill down characteristics of the supply pipe and the engine were evaluated through the investigation of the chill down process of the 75 tonf-class liquid rocket engine at each stage before and after run tank pressurization. In addition, the amount of liquid oxygen consumed was also evaluated.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.4-4
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• 2000

KSR-III 과학로켓 개발사업의 한 분야인 추진기관 연구에 있어 가장 중심이 되는 것은 제작된 연소실의 시험/검증이라고 할 수 있다. 여러 단계의 시험 가운데에서도 엔진의 특성을 제 1차 적으로 파악하고, 시험 대상물인 엔진을 스탠드에 장착하여 시험이 가능토록 하기 위해서 모사 추진제(물) 혹은 실제 추진제를 사용하여 수력학적 특성을 알아내는 것은 매우 중요하다. 이를 위해 engineering model 엔진(이하 EM)에 대하여 액체 산소 배관은 액체 산소를, 스탠드 사정상 케로신 배관은 액체 질소를 사용한 비연소 시험을 수행하였으며, 이러한 일련의 비연소 시험을 통해 산화제 및 연료 매니폴드 각각에 대한 차압과 매니폴드를 채우는 시간을 측정하여 점화 사이클을 정의할 수 있었다.(중략)

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2007.04a
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• pp.322-325
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• 2007

This paper shows the development procedure of the low pressure LOX feed system which is used in the liquid rocket with a turbopump. Korean Air has cooperated with KARI in developing the LOX feed system to turbopump. The LOX feed system is characterized with cryogenic temperature and the thin-thickness tube for weight saving. The system in this project is composed with a main feed line and a recirculation line for the LOX temperature conditioning. Each piping system has many components, namely, bellows, filter, orifice, valves, flange and support. In this paper, system design & manufacturing, structural & thermal analyses, and component tests are explained. Finally, the system was assembled to the KARI's PTF test facility and functioned well to meet its required performance.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.1080-1083
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• 2017

In the design of KSLV-II, there is a scenario in which supercooled liquid oxygen is supplied to prevent a geysering phenomenon in the oxidizer pipe and a cavitation phenomenon at the pump inlet. To verify this condition in the engine development test phase, a system that supplies supercooled liquid oxygen to the engine was applied in the engine combustion test facility. In this system, supercooling methods using a vacuum ejector and using helium injection to the tank were appied. Both tests were carried out for about 17 minutes. Supercooling results of about 3.3K for the ejector test and about 2.2K for the helium injection test were obtained at the 50% level of the tank.