Expected Detection Limits of Hydrazine-Based Rocket Fuels and Their Selected Oxidation Products by 12C16O2 Laser Spectroscopic Techniques.

Abstract

This report details the progress of the effort toward the development of CO2 laser spectroscopic techniques for the detection of trace airborne levels of toxic hydrazine-based rocket fuels and some of their potentially toxic air oxidation products. The health hazards to humans resulting from exposure to these compounds, even at very low concentrations, are of increasingly great concern. The Air Force needs improved detection techniques that will permit these compounds to be monitored on a real-time basis down to the 30 part-per-billion (ppb) level in the ambient air near hydrazine-fuel production and storage facilities and at missile launch sites. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 15, 1980
Accession Number
ADA089608

Entities

People

  • A. R. Calloway
  • G. L. Loper
  • J. A. Gelbwachs
  • M. A. Stamps

Organizations

  • The Aerospace Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Carbon Dioxide Lasers
  • Chemical Reactions
  • Chemical Synthesis
  • Chemistry
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Dielectric Gases
  • Hydrazines
  • Infrared Lasers
  • Laser Beams
  • Laser-Based Detection
  • Materials Science
  • Measurement
  • Organic Chemistry
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Spectra
  • Spectroscopy

Readers

  • Analytical Chemistry
  • Optical Physics and Photonics.
  • Rocket Propulsion.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy