Launching Projectiles with Hydrogen Gas Generated from Titanium-Water Reactions

Abstract

This invention relates to methods of generating gases and more particularly to methods of generating hydrogen gas. Acceleration of projectiles launched from gun, rocket, and missile systems is limited by the sonic velocity of gas products from propellants. Conventional gun propellants (nitrocellulose) generate heavy gases like carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxide, and water vapor whose sonic velocity seldom exceeds 500 m/sec at ambient temperature. The maximum speed to projectiles launched from gun barrel by such gases barely reaches 1 km/sec. Keywords: Patent applications.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 07, 1990
Accession Number
ADD014653

Entities

People

  • Woodrow W. Lee

Organizations

  • United States Department of the Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Carbon Monoxide
  • Ceramic Materials
  • Chemical Reactions
  • Dielectric Gases
  • Elements
  • Gun Propellants
  • Guns
  • High Pressure
  • Hot Spots
  • Inventions
  • Materials
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Metals
  • Oxides
  • Pressure Gages
  • Propellants
  • Transducers

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Combustion and Flow Dynamics.
  • Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) Technology.
  • ballistics.