CALORIMETRY OF DOUBLE-BASE PROPELLANTS: AN ACCOUNT OF THE E.R.D.E. PROPELLANT CALORIMETER INSTALLATION AND DETERMINATION OF ENERGY EQUIVALENT

Abstract

An account is given of a 150 ml bomb calorimeter developed in ERDE and installed in Government propellant factories and Service Inspectorate laboratories for quality control and inspection in double-base propellant manufacture. The preparation of a standard SC (Cordite) propellant and the measurement of its calorimetric value, using the combustion of benzoic acid in oxygen in a stainless steel bomb as standardising reaction, and the determination of the energy equivalent of the calorimeter with normal high-tensile steel bombs using this standard SC propellant are described.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 17, 1962
Accession Number
AD0292675

Entities

People

  • D. L. Hodge
  • G. Colley
  • J. H. Littlefair
  • L. E. Grindrod

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Benzoic Acids
  • Calorimeters
  • Calorimetry
  • Double Base Propellants
  • Government (Foreign)
  • Governments
  • Measurement
  • Propellants
  • Quality Control
  • Stainless Steel
  • Standards
  • Steel

Fields of Study

  • Physics

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