• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2004.03a
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• pp.148-154
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• 2004

As a rocket propellent of hydrocarbon fuels, the characteristics of liquefied natural gas was evaluated with the viewpoint of the constituents and content, the cooling performance as a coolant, and characteristic velocity and specific impulse as parameters of the engine performance. Content of methane was a principal factor to determine the characteristics as a rocket propellant and more than 90 % of it was needed as a fuel and coolant in the regenerative cooled liquid rocket engine. Some constituents of the liquefied natural gas can be frozen by the pre-cooling of the pipe lines, therefore they can be a factor disturbing the normal working of engine. In case the content of methane is around 90% in the liquefied natural gas, a normalized stoichiometric O/F mixture ratio of 0.75 is suggested for a nominal operation condition to get the maximum specific impulse and characteristic velocity.

• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.1-8
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• 2002

A numerical analysis was performed on the fluid flow in injector orifice of a liquid rocket engine. The present computational code was verified against the published data for turbulent flow in a pipe with a sudden expansion-contraction. Considered were the parameters for the flow analysis in an injector orifice: Reynolds number, ratio of mass flow rate of the injector orifice and inlet flow rate, and slant angle of the injector orifice. The discharge coefficient increased slightly as the Reynolds number increased. The slant angle of the injector changed critically the discharge coefficient. The discharge coefficient increased by 7% when the slant angle changed from $-30^{\circ}$ to $30^{\circ}$ The ratio of mass flow rate had relatively little impact on the discharge coefficient.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• v.y2005m4
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• pp.159-167
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• 2005

Considering the increase of interest in $H_{2}O_2$ as a rocket propellant, a test facility and a rocket engine have been developed to research in areas of $H_{2}O_2$ mono-propellant propulsion. A detailed design-study of a $H_{2}O_2$ mono-propellant rocket engine of 100-N thrust is presented. Several firings attempted in early stage had some problems with misfire and chamber pressure decrease. Low environmental temperature and impurities included in hydrogen peroxide were considered to be the reasons. Addressing these points resulted in successful firing of the rocket engine and obtained thrust about $100\sim107-N.$

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.110-117
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• 2006

Considering the increase of interest in $H_2O_2$ as a rocket propellant, a test facility and a rocket engine have been developed to research in areas of $H_2O_2$ mono-propellant propulsion. A detailed design-study of a $H_2O_2$ mono-propellant rocket engine of 100-N thrust is presented. Several firings attempted in early stage had some problems with misfire and chamber pressure decrease. Low environmental temperature and impurities included in hydrogen peroxide were considered to be the reasons. Addressing these points resulted in successful firing of the rocket engine and obtained thrust about $100\sim107-N$.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2002.08a
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• pp.267-270
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• 2002

Combustion instability, which is one of the most undesirable phenomena in the development of liquid Propellant rocket engine, can cause serious damage to the rocket itself, and must be evaded by all means. Unfortunately, KSR-III rocket went through the combustion instability during engine start at the propulsion test article No.2. To resolve the problem, time sequence has been changed, and the baffle system has been applied. In consequence of the change, stable combustion was achieved.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2008.03a
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• pp.849-854
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• 2008

We have been developing a 1500N-thrust Swirling-Oxidizer-Flow-Type hybrid rocket engine. In order to put the engine into practical use, we conducted long duration burning experiments up to 25s to examine the influence of configuration change of fuel grain on the engine performance and designed an LOX vaporization nozzle to supply GOX for the 1500N-thrust engine. The experiment with a small hybrid rocket engine showed that combustion was stable and the engine performance was approximately constant during combustion. There was no essential problem to with increasing combustion time. The LOX vaporization nozzle designed had 30 rectangular channels with a depth of 0.5mm. During passing through the nozzle, the LOX increased in temperature and vaporized sufficiently.

• Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.1-9
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• 2010

As the rocket KSLV-1 called NARO was launched lately, development of domestic rocket technology has been accelerated elastically. Since the rocket technology needs a lot of empirical data, a variety of experiments should be done and lots of time have to be spent for accumulating the foundation of technology. However using a computer can be the solution to close a gap of technique because the simulation can be executed in short time against real experiments and calculate a multiplicity of cases easily. In this research, the transient analysis of turbopump-fed liquid rocket system was worked by the one dimensional modeling. The rocket system consists of the modulized components that are engine, turbopump and so on. For 70 ton class system, the rocket transient process of starting was studied and the performance analysis in steady condition was achieved. In addition, the estimation of nozzle internal flow was investigated by using a nozzle coefficient.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.32 no.3
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• pp.95-101
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• 2004

Stability rating of KSR-III rocket engine is conducted based on stability rating tests in the course of development of KSR-III rocket engine. Rocket engine is approved to have combustion stabilization ability when it can suppress the external perturbation or pressure oscillation with finite amplitude and recover the original stable combustion. Rocket engine in flight may be perturbed by unexpectedly large-amplitude pressure oscillation and thus a designer should not only assure combustion stabilization ability of the engine but also quantify the stabilization capacity. For this, principal quantitative parameters and their evaluation are introduced. To verify dynamic stability of KSR-III rocket engine, six stability rating tests have been conducted. Based on these test results, such parameters are quantified and thereby, the stabilization capacity of KSR-III rocket engine is evaluated.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.34 no.5
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• pp.563-568
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• 2010

Turbopump-gas generator open-loop coupled tests are performed during the development of a 30tonf-LOx/Kerosene rocket engine. In the turbopump-gas generator open-loop tests, the propellants to gas generator are supplied from the outlets of turbopump, while the gas exhausted from the gas generator is vented out to the atmosphere, instead of being used to turbine driving. This paper presents the objectives, procedure, and results of the open-loop coupled test, in addition to a schematic representation of the test apparatus and the operating conditions for the test facility system and control system. The results of turbopump-gas generator open-loop coupled test confirm chill-down procedure, startup characteristics, nominal operability and smooth shutdown of the open-loop coupled Test Plant in test conditions simulating engine system operation environment.

• International Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.11-16
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• 2019

A system analysis program has been developed for a gas generator cycle liquid rocket engine of 30 ton class. Numerical models have been proposed for a combustor, a turbopump, a gas generator and pressure drop through a regenerative cooling system. Numerical algorithm has been validated by comparing with the published data of MC-1. The major source of error is not the numerical algorithm but the imperfect performance models of subsystems. So the precision of the program can be improved by revising the performance models using experimental data. The sea level specific impulse and vacuum specific impulse have been demonstrated for a 30 ton class gas generator engine. The optimal condition of combustor pressure and mixture ratio for specific impulse which is a typical characteristic of a gas generator cycle engine has been illustrated.