The report summarizes the design, fabrication, safety features, environmental impact, and operation of the Ames Hybrid-Fuel Combustion Facility (HCF). The facility is used in conducting research into the scalability and combustion processes of advanced paraffin-based hybrid fuels for the purpose of assessing their applicability to practical rocket systems. The facility was designed to deliver gaseous oxygen at rates between 0.5 and 16.0 kg/sec to a combustion chamber operating at pressures ranging from 300 to 900 The required run times were of the order of 10 to 20 sec. The facility proved to be robust and reliable and has been used to generate a database of regression-rate measurements of paraffin at oxygen mass flux levels comparable to those of moderate-sized hybrid rocket motors.


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    Title :

    Ames Hybrid Combustion Facility


    Contributors:
    G. Zilliac (author) / M. A. Karabeyoglu (author) / B. Cantwell (author) / R. Hunt (author) / S. DeZilwa (author)

    Publication date :

    2003


    Size :

    155 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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