Stability of Liquid Propellants under Long-Term Storage

Abstract

The commitment of the army to replace solid propellants with liquid propellants in some applications requires extensive characterization of the propellant system. This study, as part of the program to establish fail-safe criteria, deals with the effect of temperature and transition metal impurities on the stability of Liquid Propellant 1846 (LP 1846). In order to determine these effects on the stability of LP 1846, analytical methods were developed to compare the propellant before and after exposure, and an apparatus was designed to monitor the pressure build-up as a function time. Keywords: Transition metals; Liquid propellant; Triethanol ammonium nitrate; Nitric acid; Ion chromatography; Hydroxylammonium nitrate; Water.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1990
Accession Number
ADA223934

Entities

People

  • Edward Turngren
  • Gerald Doyle
  • Stanley P. Griff
  • William O. Seals

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Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Alcohols
  • Artillery
  • Chemical Synthesis
  • Chemistry
  • Classification
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Hydroxides
  • Jet Propulsion
  • Liquid Propellants
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Materials Science
  • Materials Testing
  • Munitions
  • Propellants
  • Rocket Oxidizers
  • Solid Propellants

Fields of Study

  • Physics

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