Organic Azides as Jet Fuel Additives.

Abstract

Under the sponsored program and experimental investigation has been conducted on the vaporization and combustion characteristics of freely-falling droplets of organic azides in hot oxidizing or inert environments. The droplets of organic azides in hot oxidizing or inert environments. The droplet burning rate and the state of micro-explosion have been measured. Results show that, compared with the conventional hydrocarbon fuels, droplets of azido fuels burn faster and micro-explode earlier in the droplet lifetime. The effect is especially strong for diazido n-alkanes whose gasification rates can be several hundred percent of the corresponding n-alkanes. Such strong responses are postulated to be caused by dissociative gasification with very low heat of gasification.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 20, 1985
Accession Number
ADA159201

Entities

People

  • Chung K. Law

Organizations

  • Northwestern University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Additives (Chemicals)
  • Burning Rate
  • Chemical Reaction Properties
  • Combustion
  • Combustion Products
  • Decomposition
  • Engineering
  • Explosions
  • Fuel Additives
  • Fuel Systems
  • Fuels
  • Heat Energy
  • Heat Of Combustion
  • Heat Of Vaporization
  • Hydrocarbon Fuels
  • Jet Engine Fuels
  • Mechanical Engineering

Fields of Study

  • Chemistry

Readers

  • Combustion science or combustion engineering.
  • Organic Chemistry