Hydrogen peroxide – A promising oxidizer for rocket propulsion and its application in solid rocket propellants
March 2022
This paper discusses the potential use of hydrogen peroxide as oxidizer for solid rocket propulsion. While hydrogen peroxide is a liquid in normal conditions, it may be used in solid rocket motor grains....
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Synthesis of explosive peroxides using unrecognised explosive precursors - percarbonates and perborates
September 2022
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Hybrid rocket propulsion technology for space transportation revisited - propellant solutions and challenges
December 2021
This paper presents the status of developments worldwide regarding use of hybrid rocket motors for space transportation. Historical roots are presented and reasons for revisiting hybrid technology after...
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Review on the regression rate-improvement techniques and mechanical performance of hybrid rocket fuels
December 2021
Human spaceflight, space tourism, and the launch of microsatellites are all expected to grow in the future. In fact, with the recent increase of the satellite market, almost 1000 smallsats per year...
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3D printed different polymer fuel grains for hybrid rocket engine
June 2024
The advent of various additive manufacturing technologies, such as 3D printing, has changed the structural design and preparation process of rocket fuels. In order to investigate the combustion properties...
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Survey of burning rate measurements in small solid rocket motors
June 2024
Burning rate plays a crucial role in determining the performance of solid rocket motors (SRMs). In the traditional approach for solid propellant propulsion, technical activities regarding burning rates...
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Development of high burn rate propellant and testing in miniature rocket motor for control applications
June 2024
For aerospace vehicles, notably missiles or satellites for attitude and divert control, impulsive thrusters are most desirable if they are quantized as exact instantaneous pulses available over and...
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Recent synthetic efforts towards high energy density materials: How to design high-performance energetic structures?
June 2022
Energetic material is a very essential company of compounds, widely used in various fields, primarily in the military industry and space technologies. These compounds are unique in that they are capable...
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Experimental investigation of the axial oxidizer injectors geometry on a 1-kN paraffin-fueled hybrid rocket motor
December 2021
The showerhead is the most common type of injector used in hybrid rocket motors due to its design and manufacture simplicity. The main drawback of the showerheads (SH) is the relatively low performance...
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A review on solid propellant micro-thruster array based on MEMS technology
June 2024
With the development of micro-spacecraft technology, micro-nano satellites have the advantages of small size, low power consumption, short development cycle, formation networking, etc., and can complete...
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A mathematical model for estimating the Gurney velocity of chemical high explosives
December 2023
The Gurney velocity is an important performance parameter that characterizes the metal pushing capability of conventional chemical explosives. Herein, this study proposes a mathematical model that aims...
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A short review of challenges and prospects of boron-laden solid fuels for ramjet applications
September 2023
This short review article explores the advancement, challenges, and prospects of boron-laden solid fuel for ramjet. The energetic aspect of boron combustion is well known, but the complications associated...
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Performance estimation of hybrid rocket by varying the flow rate at multi-location swirl injector
Available online 7 August 2024
This study attempts to evaluate the effect of varying the oxidizer mass flow rate through the secondary mid-location swirl injector on the performance of a hybrid rocket motor (HRM). The hybrid fuel...
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Boron-loaded gel fuel as potential fuel for ramjet and scramjet engines- recent advancements
September 2024
Boron, a high-energy metalloid has been recognized as a potential secondary energy source for liquid hydrocarbon fuel to power volume-limited propulsion devices such as ramjet and scramjet. The higher...
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Thermal decomposition kinetics and combustion performance of paraffin-based fuel in the presence of CeO2 catalyst
September 2023
In recent years, significant developments have been made in solid-fuel combustion. Paraffin-based fuels could be a potential solid fuel for hybrid and ramjet applications due to their high regression...
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Effect on the performance of a hybrid rocket using AP in the PVC and HTPB-based hybrid fuel
Available online 21 August 2024
•AP is added in limited quantity to hybrid fuel for improving performance.•Regression rate increased with AP addition to HTPB while PVC fuel gave no change.•Pressure, thrust and efficiency increased...
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Combustion features of dispersed aluminum and boron in high-energy composition
December 2024
Combustion of dispersed metals in an oxidizing environment is of practical interest, which is related to the prediction of characteristics of high-energy compositions (HECs) containing metal powders,...
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Optimization design in single wagon-wheel fuel grain of hybrid rocket motor
December 2021
The grain design of hybrid rocket motor is a design of proper fuel grain geometry and flow adjustment scheme based on the total impulse, thrust, chamber pressure, length and outer diameter of combustion...
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Research progress on design, synthesis and performance of energetic polynitro hexaazaisowurtzitane derivatives: Towards improved CL-20 analogues
March 2024
In order to discover of high-energy materials with characteristics that surpass modern benchmarks, it is necessary to study the widest range of potential structures. The design of energetic compounds...
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Continuous flow resonance acoustic mixing technology: a novel and efficient strategy for preparation of nano energetic materials
March 2023
Recently, microfluidic technology has been widely applied to the preparation of nano-energetic materials. The mixing efficiency of fluid is one of the significant factors which could affect the particle...
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Research progress of nitrate ester binders
March 2023
Nitrate ester binders are a unique class of energetic binders containing nitrate ester (-ONO2) pendant groups attached to the polymeric backbones, which have been extensively employed in solid propellant...
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Recent advances in hypergolic ionic liquids with broad potential for propellant applications
September 2022
As a promising choice of new-generation green propellant fuels, hypergolic ionic liquids (HILs) have attracted a great deal of interest in recent ten years, illustrated by their applications in the...
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Development of hydrogen peroxide based micro thruster utilizing biomass-based catalyst bed
Available online 17 August 2024
Micro thrusters, also referred to as micro-newton thrusters, are thrusters having a wide range of force capabilities in the micro-newton range. Micro thrusters are used in CubeSats, tiny robots and...
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Towards to some published misconceptions about TNT and ɛ-CL20
Available online 1 June 2024
•High impact sensitivity of TNT of 14 - 16 J is due to the air microbubbles in it•Internal porosity & cracks in ɛ-CL20 crystal cause high sensitivity of 2 - 4.4 J•These values were dominated in literature...
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Reactivity and reaction mechanism of Al-PTFE mechanically activated energetic composites
June 2021
In order to study reactivity and reaction mechanism of Al-polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) mechanically activated energetic composites, reaction molecular dynamics simulation was carried out to predict...
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