Kinetics of Propellant Combustion and Muzzle Flash Reactions
Abstract
Knowledge of the kinetics of reactions taking place during propellant burning is essential to the development of improved energetic materials. Models lacking such information are devoid of physical significance and are of little use in extrapolation from one system to another. In the present work an HTP (high-temperature photochemistry) reactor has been used to measure the kinetics of a number of individual reactions, identified as important in propellant combustion models. The high-temperature photochemistry (HTP) technique employed is uniquely useful to provide data over wider temperature ranges of interest than accessible by other techniques in use for making measurements on isolated propellant reactions. However, we found a photochemical approach unsuited for the study of one important class of reactants: nitroalkanes. In the final study we there fore modified the reactor to allow operation in a discharge-flow resonance-fluorescence mode. In this manner the reaction between H atoms and nitromethane was studied at higher temperatures than had been accessible to previous workers.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Nov 28, 1990
- Accession Number
- ADA246109
Entities
People
- Arthur Fontijn
Organizations
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute