The goal of commercially-viable access to space will require technologies that reduce propulsion system weight and complexity, while extracting maximum energy from the products of combustion. This work is directed toward developing effective nozzle recombination catalysts for the supersonic and hypersonic aeropropulsion engines used to provide such access to space. Effective nozzle recombination will significantly reduce rk=le length (hence, propulsion system weight) and reduce fuel requirements, further decreasing the vehicle's gross lift-off weight. Two such catalysts have been identified in this work, barium and antimony compounds, by developing chemical kinetic reaction mechanisms for these materials and determining the engine performance enhancement for a typical flight trajectory. Significant performance improvements are indicated, using only 2% (mole or mass) of these compounds in the combustor product gas.
Recombination Catalysts for Hypersonic Fuels
1998-12-01
Conference paper
No indication
English
Endothermic fuels for hypersonic vehicles
AIAA | 1968
|Endothermic Fuels for Hypersonic Aviation
British Library Conference Proceedings | 1993
|Endothermic fuels for hypersonic vehicles
AIAA | 1971
|Fuels for Hypersonic Air‐Breathing Propulsion
Wiley | 2022
|Liquid Hydrocarbon Fuels for Hypersonic Propulsion
AIAA | 2001
|