Large solid-propellant rocket motors release quantities of hydrogen chloride (HCl) gas as a product of combustion. Since HCl is a potential environmental hazard, the measurement of its concentration in the stabilized rocket exhaust ground cloud becomes important to validate diffusion estimates governing launch constraints, as well as to assess the biologic and ecologic impact of HCl reactions which may occur in the exhaust plume. This paper describes the development and test of a microcoulometer for detection of HCl in rocket exhaust, and presents analytical results from Titan III launch vehicle monitoring studies at Cape Canaveral, Florida, and Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.


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    Title :

    Coulometric Measurement of HCl in Space Launch Vehicle Exhaust


    Contributors:
    R. C. Legday (author) / R. L. Miller (author) / D. C. Beatty (author)

    Publication date :

    1975


    Size :

    18 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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