• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.37 no.2
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• pp.148.2-148.2
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• 2012

2차 대전 이후 미국과 소련의 우주 경쟁으로 인해 로켓엔진에 대한 많은 발전이 이루어졌고 그 결과 새로운 엔진 사이클과 많은 종류의 추진제가 개발되었다. 냉전 후 많은 ICBM이 민간용으로 개조되었지만 대부분의 민간용 발사체는 연료로 케로신과 액체수소를 사용하고 있다. 아폴로 계획까지 우주개발 초창기에는 미, 소 양국 모두 케로신 엔진을 주축으로 사용하였으나 우주왕복선의 시대가 도래한 이후 미국에서는 수소엔진을 주력으로 사용하였다. 그러나 현재 우주왕복선이 퇴역한 이후 러시아의 도움을 받아 개발 혹은 수입된 케로신 엔진이 델타와 아틀라스에 사용되고 있다. 또한 최초의 민간발사체인 팰콘에도 멀린이라는 케로신 엔진이 적용되었다. 수소엔진 이후에 새로이 개발되고 있는 메탄엔진은 아직 실용화에는 이르지 못하였기 때문에 적어도 당분간은 케로신 엔진이 로켓엔진 분야를 선도할 것으로 보인다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2011.04a
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• pp.12-15
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• 2011

The most widely used kerosene-LOx liquid-propellant rocket engines in these days have a similar engine schematic to those of the past because of the development cost and the reliability. The efficiency of engines could be increased by the factors such as a cooling method, engine cycles, shape of cooling channels, additional coolant and so on. In this article, it is described that some design ideas for performance enhancement by exchange kerosene with LOx of a coolant.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.29-32
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• 2009

This study is for development combustion test facility of liquid rocket engine system using hydrogen peroxide/kerosene as propellent. For this new facility, we construct thrust measure system, propellent supply system, control and data acquisition system. To perform 200N liquid rocket engine combustion test, operation scenario and sequence were designed. Result of combustion test propellents were supplied to engine stably and confirm of development combustion test facility very well.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.101-112
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• 2021

SpaceX shows various strategies such as constructing various payload portfolio through the reuse of Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy, constructing the launch vehicles using one type of engine, the transition from kerosene engine to methane engine, and the use of 3D printing. In this study, launch vehicle proposals that can cover a variety of payloads and trajectories from KOMPSAT to GEO-KOMPSAT were constructed, and ten launch vehicles using kerosene gas generator cycle engine, kerosene staged-combustion cycle engine, and methane staged-combustion cycle engine were reviewed. Of the ten launch vehicles, the reusable launch vehicle using a 35-ton methane engine was rated as the best in terms of development potential.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.32 no.4
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• pp.111-117
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• 2004

An analytical study was carried out to evaluate the regenerative cooling characteristics in the liquid rocket engine of a 10tf-thrust level using kerosene as a fuel. As a supplementary cooling method, a radiative cooling was applied to the nozzle extension. It was found out from this work that the cooling system with the regenerative and radiation cooling only is not adaptable for the liquid rocket engine of a 10tf-thrust level using kerosene as a fuel for the $2^{nd}$ stage of the space launch vehicle, with the viewpoint of the thermal and thermo-structural instability and the excessive pressure drop in the cooling channel.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.83-88
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• 2003

An analytical study was carried out to evaluate the regenerative cooling characteristics in the liquid rocket engine of a 10tf-thrust level using kerosene as a fuel. As a supplementary cooling method, a radiative cooling was applied to the nozzle extension. It was found out from this work that the cooling system with the regenerative and radiation cooling only is not adaptable as a cooling method for the liquid rocket engine of a 10tf-thrust level using kerosene as a fuel for the 2nd stage of the space launch vehicle. So, additional cooling method, curtain cooling was introduced and analyzed. Curtain cooling was very effective to reduce the thermal and thermo-structural instability.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.19-23
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• 2010

Injection characteristics of a kerosene swirl injector of liquid rocket engine operating at supercritical environment have been investigated. Kerosene surrogate models are proposed to model the kerosene properties. Turbulent numerical model is based on large eddy simulation and contains Soave modification of Redlich-Kwong equation of state and Chung's model. Numerical analysis results at supercritical environment are compared with the one at transcritical condition. Differences of density and viscosity are analyzed at both liquid film and core gas in the swirl injector.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.61-64
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• 2009

A study on the variation of combustion performance by oxidizer/fuel ratio was conducted. Shower head type injector was used. Injector propelled by liquid kerosene and liquid hydrogen peroxide. The designed operation condition for thrust and combustion pressure were 200N and 10bar. It is found that optimum oxidizer/fuel ratio.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• v.y2005m4
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• pp.139-143
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• 2005

Combustion Test Facility for Liquid Rocket Engine using kerosene and liquid oxygen has been developed for the purpose of cooling and performance study. Test engine of thrust 0.5 KN(design thrust) is tested to confirm the normal operation. Therefore, water-cooled firing tests using kerosene engine with injectors of fuel-centered coaxial type are conducted. With the viewpoint of characteristic velocity, and specific impulse at sea level, and chamber pressure on OF mixture ratio are analyzed.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.78-82
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• 2003

The cooling mechanism for a regenerative cooling liquid rocket engine of 10tf-thrust using kerosene as a fuel was studied from the viewpoint of curtain cooling. Based on the concept of a highly-stratified gas flow in the combustion chamber, the cross section of the combustion chamber was spilt into 2 independent parts, core and exterior part. Additional fuel is injected into the exterior section and gas temperature can be reduced in the exterior section. Consequently, the heat flux into the coolant and wall temperature are reduced and the thermal stability of a liquid rocket engine could be improved.