Work Supported by ONT Postdoctoral Fellowship
Abstract
This report summarizes the research conducted during my stay at NOSC as an ONT postdoctoral fellow. The basic motivation for this work was to better understand the process of liquid metal combustion in Stored Chemical Energy Propulsion Systems (SCEPS) of interest to the Navy as underwater propulsion systems. The chemical system of greatest current interest is the Li-SF6 system. Here a jet of gaseous SF6 is introduced into a container of molten lithium which serves as both a reactor and a boiler. Reaction is presumably completed quite near the injector, the remaining gaseous portion of the jet consisting largely of condensing lithium vapor formed by the intense heat of reaction. An important quantity to be predicted is the penetration length, the length of the gaseous jet in the boiler-reactor. In the design of a boiler-reactor, the penetration length would be less than the reactor length in order to avoid undesired effects associated with the build-up of vapor in the reactor.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 1988
- Accession Number
- ADA195298
Entities
People
- James B. Melville