• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.2-2
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• 1998

고체 추진제의 연소율(burning rate)은 연소의 동적 기동을 이해할 수 있을 뿐 아니라 추진제의 성능을 판단할 수 있는 중요한 수단이기 때문에 많은 연구가 진행되어 왔다. 특히 AP계의 고체추진제 표면에서는 발열반응인 분해반응(decomposition) 이외에도 기체로 증발되는 증발되는(evaporation or sublimation)이 존재한다. 증발반응으로 인하여 연소율은 외부압력의 변화에 대하여 반응하게 되며 실험적으로 $r_{b}$= a $p^n$의 관계를 보여주고 있다. 즉, 연소율(burning rate)은 연소실 압력 P의 n승에 비례하며 여기서 n은 실험적으로 결정되는 지수이다. 그러나 압력지수 n은 일반적으로 온도와 압력의 함수이기 때문에 실험적으로 이 측정하기는 매우 어려운 일이다. 또한 QSHOD 가정을 사용하여 고체 추진제의 연소 응답함을 해석하기 위해서 추진제의 민감계수(sensitivity parameters)에 관한 관계식이 필요하며 이러한 관계식은 추진제의 정상연소율에 관한 관계식으로부터 얻을 수 있다.다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2007.04a
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• pp.91-94
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• 2007

The fabrication and firing test of the ignition system for a micro solid propellant thruster are described in the present paper. Pt igniter coil was patterned on the glass membrane that was fabricated by the wet etching process. The thickness of Pt layer was $2000{\AA}$ and the width of igniter pattern was $40{\mu}m$. The thickness and diameter of glass membrane were $15{\mu}m$ and 1 mm, respectively. Ignition test was performed. Successful ignition of HTPB/AP propellant was obtained with an ignition delay of 1.6 s at an input voltage of 12 V. The ignition energy was estimated to be 1.4 J.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.41-46
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• 2020

In this study, measurement and analysis results from Differential scanning calorimetry(DSC) and Thermogravimetric analysis(TGA) on the newly developed high-energy thermoplastic elastomer(ETPE) propellant are described, followed by the previous study done under the same title as this paper [1]. The characteristics of high-energy thermoplastic propellant were also verified by conducting thermal analysis, and the LSGT, Shotgun & RQ Bomb test, was carried out as well. High energetic thermoplastic binders containing 45% of GAP(Glycidyl Azide Polymer), energetic plasticizer(DEGDN) and Oxidizer Aonium Perchlorate), RDX(reseach development explosive, cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine) were used to formulate the propellant.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 1999.10a
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• pp.31-31
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• 1999

로켓 모터 내에서 높은 충전률을 유지하면서 연소면적을 증대시켜 추력기체 생성량을 증대시키는 가장 효율적인 방법으로는 금속선, 필라맨트, strip, rod 등의 열전도체와 hollow fiber를 단면연소 그레인에 삽입시키는 방법이 있다. 이러한 연구는 1950년대 ARC의 Rumbel에 의해 PVC와 AP가 주성분인 혼합형 추진제를 대상으로 처음 시도되었으며, Kubota, Caveny, Gossant, King등에 의해 복기추진제와 혼합형 추진제를 대상으로 금속선의 종류, 직경, 형태, 수 및 기하학적 배열 등에 따른 실험적 이론적 연구가 이루어져 왔다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.215-218
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• 2007

Internal Ballistic modeling and performance prediction for solid propellant micro thruster was performed with heat loss to the chamber wall as an important factor of miniaturization. Simple l-D end-burner type thruster and general HTPB-AP type composite propellant were selected for computation model. The results showed that the performance loss with the heat loss to the surroundings becomes larger as the surface-to-volume ratio is increased. In this case, the total impulse was reduced about 3% of the case in adiabatic condition.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.41-47
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• 1999

The burning rate of solid propellant is one of the key parameter associated with the dynamic characteristics of combustion and the combustion performances. In the AP propellants, the evaporation on the reacting surface as well as the decomposition of the propellant is of great importance in determining the overall burning rate. In this study, a theoretical analysis was conducted to obtain the expression for burning rate in the steady state combustion with the energy and species equations in the condensed phase when the radiative heat flux partially contributes to the total heat transfer to the propellant surface.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.50-58
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• 2000

Burning rate of the matrix propellant($r_{sb}$) and burning rate along the metal wire($r_w$) were measured and analyzed for the HTPB/AP/Al propellant embedded with Ag wire($\phi$0.15mm) according to weight % of RDX(0~20%). Variation of burning rate increment ratio($r_w$/$r_{sb}$) and pressure exponent(n) was studied for the nitramine propellant having 10% RDX embedded with three kinds of metal(Ag, Cu, and Ni-Cr) of which diameter range is between 0.1~0.6mm. Maximum burning rate increment ratio of the nitramine propellant embedded with Ag wire($\phi$0.1mm) was 5.94 at $20^{\cire}C$, 1000 psia, 16.4% faster than that of HTPB/AP propellant, it is because that autoignition temperature of the nitramine propellant was higher than that of HTPB/AP propellant. Standard deviation of absolute ($r_{wc}$/$r_{we}$)/$r_{we}$ calculated by using new empiracal equation composed of four dimensionless groups, is 6.11% less than that calculated by using original empirical equation composed of three dimensionless group. The new empiracal equation is derived from Buckingham pi theorem using the parameters such as thermal diffusivity, melting temperature. wire diameter, propellant sample diameter, frame temperature, autoignition temperature and matrix burning rate which influence on $r_w$.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.18-25
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• 2017

The study for the combustion characteristics of propellants for nozzleless boosters was carried out. The metal fuels of Al and Zr were introduced into solid propellant formulations in order to enhance the density-specific impulse and the high burning rate with low pressure exponent was investigated as the major combustion characteristic of propellant to design nozzleless boosters. The burning rate of Zr-containing propellant was higher than Al-containing propellant and, $13{\mu}m$ Zr-containing propellant exhibited the burning rate of 35 mm/s (at 1000 psi)and pressure exponent of 0.3282. The benefit of using Al and Zr-containing propellant into nozzleless boosters was demonstrated in these results.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.37 no.8
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• pp.774-779
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• 2009

A numerical modelling was performed to predict unsteady combustion processes for the AP/HTPB/Al propellant in a solid rocket motor. Its results were compared with the experimental data. Temporal pressure development was found to match quite well with measured data. A change in propellant surface was traced using the moving grid. The propellant thickness change was also observed to confirm the erosive burning effect.

• Membrane Journal
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.235-242
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• 2012

Ammonium perchlorate (AP) is primarily derived from the process of liquid incineration treatment when dismantling a solid rocket propellant. A series of batch dead-end nanofiltration (NF) and reverse osmosis (RO) membrane experiments were conducted to explore the retention mechanisms of AP under various hydrodynamic and solution conditions. Low levels of silicate type of siloxane had been detected through the GC/MS and FTIR analysis of liquid solutions extracted from solid ammonium perchlorate composite propellant (APCP). It is indicated that NF/RO membranes fouling in the presence of APCP was mainly attributed to the AP interactions because the concentration of silicate type of siloxane was negligible compared to that of AP. The osmotic pressure of AP was presumably resulted in the flux declines ranging from 13 to 17% in the case of the application of low-pressure (551 and 896 kPa for NF and RO) compared to those in application of high-pressure. The retention of AP by NF/RO membranes significantly varied from approximately 10 to 70% for NF and 26 to 87% for RO, depending on the operating and solution water chemistry conditions. The results suggested that retention efficiency of AP was fairly increased by reducing concentration polarization (i.e. application of low-pressure and stirring speed of 600 rpm) and increasing the pH of a solution. The result of this study was also consistent with the previous modeling of 'solute mass transfer of NF/RO membranes' and demonstrated that hydrodynamic and solution water chemistry conditions are to be a key factor in the retention of AP by NF/RO membranes.