Boron is a beneficial fuel for propellants and explosives because of its high energy density. However, efficient combustion of boron particles is difficult to obtain because of an inhibiting oxide layer that covers the particles. Various metal oxides are active catalysts in graphite/carbon oxidation, but no study has been carried out to investigate metal oxides as catalysts for boron oxidation. In this paper, the effects of metal oxides on boron oxidation are introduced. The instruments used in the experiments include a thermobalance, FactSage 6.2 software, and a CO 2 laser ignition facility. The results reveal that Bi 2 O 3 is the most active catalyst: it can reduce the ignition temperature by 15.2%. Fe 2 O 3 and SnO 2 are the second and third most active catalysts, respectively. The other four metal oxides used in the experiments exhibit little activity on boron thermal oxidation. The catalytic action of metal oxides possibly involves the cyclic reduction of the metal oxides and the reoxidation of the resulting metals. The catalysts help transfer oxygen from the surroundings to the B B 2 O 3 interface. All metal oxides used in the experiments help decrease boron ignition delay time. Two reasons are proposed to interpret the effect of metal oxides on the boron ignition delay time.


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    Titel :

    Metal Oxides as Catalysts for Boron Oxidation


    Beteiligte:
    Xi, Jianfei (Autor:in) / Liu, Jianzhong (Autor:in) / Wang, Yang (Autor:in) / Hu, Yourui (Autor:in) / Zhang, Yanwei (Autor:in) / Zhou, Junhu (Autor:in)

    Erschienen in:

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2013-12-31


    Format / Umfang :

    7 pages




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch







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