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A Study on the Design and Performance of a Green Propellant Engine

친환경 추진제를 이용한 200N급 엔진의 설계 및 성능에 관한 연구

  • 이양석 (충남대학교 대학원) ;
  • 전준수 (충남대학교 대학원) ;
  • 황오식 (충남대학교 대학원) ;
  • 고영성 (충남대학교 항공우주공학과) ;
  • 김유 (충남대학교 기계공학과) ;
  • 김선진 (청양대학 소방안전관리학과)
  • Received : 2010.08.20
  • Accepted : 2010.11.19
  • Published : 2010.12.05
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Abstract

In the last decade, hydrogen peroxide has received renewed interest as a green propellant which is non-toxic, environmentally clean and relatively easy to handle. This study was performed to acquire the design technique and combustion performance of a 200N bi-propellant engine using hydrogen peroxide and kerosene. The engine which used a catalytic ignition method was designed and cold flow tests were carried out to investigate atomization characteristics. Combustion tests including a pulse mode operation were performed to investigate the combustion performance on various O/F ratios. The results showed that the combustion efficiency and the repeatability of the engine performance were enough to use as an essential database for the development of a high performance engine.

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