• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제26권6호
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• pp.868-874
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• 2002

A high-impulse, low-power, digital microthruster has been developed using low-boiling-temperature liquid propellant with high-viscosity fluid plug. The viscous fiction force of the fluid plug increases the blast pressure and the low-boiling-temperature liquid propellant is intended to reduce input power consumption. The three-layer microthruster has been fabricated by surface micromachining as well as bulk micromachining in the size of 7$\times$13$\times$1.5㎣. A digital output impulse bit of 6.4$\times$10$^{-8}$ Nsec has been obtained from the fabricated microthruster using perfluoro normal hexane (FC72) propellant and oil plug, resulting in about ten times increase of the impulse bit using one hundredth electrical input energy compared to the conventional multiple-shot microthruster.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2001년도 춘계학술대회논문집C
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• pp.59-63
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• 2001

A high-impulse, low-power, continuous-shot microthruster has been developed using low boiling temperature liquid-propellant with high viscous fluid-plug. The viscous friction force of the fluid-plug increases the blast pressure and the low boiling temperature liquid-propellant is intended to reduce input power consumption. The three-layer microthruster has been fabricated by surface micromachining as well as bulk micromachining in the size of $7{\times}13{\times}1.5mm^{3}$. A continuous output impulse bit of $6.4{\times}10^{-8}N{\cdot}sec$ has been obtained from the fabricated microthruster using perfluoro normal hexane (FC72) propellant and oil plug, resulting in about ten times increase of the impulse bit using one hundredth electrical input energy compared to the conventional continuous microthruster.

• 한국추진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국추진공학회 2004년도 제22회 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.605-610
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• 2004

Solid propellants allow thrusters to be light-weight, com-pact and robust because they require neither tank nor valve, Moreover, the solid propellant will not leak, spill or slosh. Consequently, the solid propellant thruster is one of the potential candidates for the microthruster. On the other hand, the control of the solid propellant combustion is difficult, since the conventional solid propellant continues to bum until all the stored propellant is consumed. Although particular devices like thrust reverser were designed to control the combustion, these devices were rarely used in the practical rocket motors. These devices rise thruster weight as well as complicate the thruster operation. In this study, a solid propellant microthruster using laser sustained combustion was designed in order to develop a high-efficiency microthruster overcoming the previously-mentioned difficulty. This designed thruster has semiconductor lasers and non-self-combustible solid propellants in addition to the conventional solid propellant thruster. In this designed thruster, the semiconductor laser controls the combustion of the non-self-combustible solid propellant. In order to demonstrate that the solid propellant combustion is controllable with laser, some non-self-combustible solid propellants were irradiated with the laser at a back-pressure of about 1㎪. A 40-W class Neodymium Yttrium Aluminum Garnet (ND:YAG) laser was used as a tentative alternate to the semiconductor laser. This experiment has shown that the solid propellant combustion was controllable with 10- W class laser irradiation.

• Advances in aircraft and spacecraft science
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.21-35
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• 2017

Hydrogen peroxide is being considered as a monopropellant in micropropulsion systems for the next generation of miniaturized satellites ('nanosats') due to its high energy density, modest specific impulse and green characteristics. Efforts at the University of Vermont have focused on the development of a MEMS-based microthruster that uses a novel slug flow monopropellant injection scheme to generate thrust and impulse-bits commensurate with the intended micropropulsion application. The present study is a computational effort to investigate the initial decomposition of the monopropellant as it enters the catalytic chamber, and to compare the impact of the monopropellant injection scheme on decomposition performance. Two-dimensional numerical studies of the monopropellant in microchannel geometries have been developed and used to characterize the performance of the monopropellant before vaporization occurs. The results of these studies show that monopropellant in the lamellar flow regime, which lacks a non-diffusive mixing mechanism, does not decompose at a rate that is suitable for the microthruster dimensions. In contrast, monopropellant in the slug flow regime decomposes 57% faster than lamellar flow for a given length, indicating that the monopropellant injection scheme has potential benefits for the performance of the microthruster.

• 한국추진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국추진공학회 2006년도 제27회 추계학술대회논문집
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• pp.30-33
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• 2006

Onset voltage plays a crucial role in the design of a spray microthruster. This paper presents an analytical electrostatic model to predict the behavior of onset voltage in an array of emitters. The basic idea of this method is to superimpose the electric potentials obtained from each individual emitter in an array of emitters. The results show that if one emitter operates and the other neighboring emitters are dry, the potential required for cone-jet spraying generally increases as the emitter spacing decreases (due to electrical shielding). However at very close spacing the potential can decrease. If all emitters operate at the same time, the phenomenon that even at very close spacing the onset voltage required for cone-jet spraying increases merely as the emitter spacing decreases.

• 한국우주과학회:학술대회논문집(한국우주과학회보)
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• 한국우주과학회 2005년도 한국우주과학회보 제14권2호
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• pp.61-61
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• 2005

• 한국추진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국추진공학회 2005년도 제25회 추계학술대회논문집
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• pp.266-271
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• 2005

과산화수소를 단일추진제로 사용하는 마이크로 추력기를 위한 실험적 연구를 수행하였다. 연구에서 은촉매 활성화 방법과 촉매 반응 챔버의 성능평가에 관한 실험을 하였다. 활성화를 위해 수소 환원법을 실시하였으며 $500^{\circ}C$의 환원 온도의 경우 가장 좋은 반응성을 가짐을 확인하였다. 촉매 분해 반응 연구를 위해 촉매 반응기가 제작되었다. 촉매 베드를 위해 지지체로 20 mm 길이의 유리 웨이퍼를 준비하여 은촉매를 스퍼터링 하였다. 추진제의 체류시간, 촉매 베드 온도, 촉매 코팅 면적을 변화시키며 추진제 전환율을 측정하였다.

• 한국추진공학회지
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2005

과산화수소를 단일추진제로 사용하는 마이크로 추력기를 위한 실험적 연구를 수행하였다. 연구에서 은 촉매 활성화 방법과 메조스케일 반응기의 성능평가에 관한 실험을 하였다. 시도한 여러 가지 활성 방법 중, $500^{\circ}C$의 수소 환원법의 경우 가장 좋은 반응성을 가짐을 확인 하였다. 추진제의 완전한 분해 조건을 찾기 위해 메조스케일 반응기가 제작되었다. 촉매 베드를 위해 지지체로 20 mm 길이의 유리 웨이퍼를 준비하여 은 촉매를 스퍼터링 하였다. 과산화수소 공급 유량에 따라 반응기내 공간시간이 변하므로 유량을 변화시키며 반웅기 실험을 수행하였고 전환율을 측정 하였다. 20 mm 베드 길이에서 추진제의 완전한 분해를 위해 480초 이상의 공간시간이 요구된다.

• 항공우주시스템공학회지
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.13-18
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• 2015

Micro planar type liquid propellant thruster was fabricated by MEMS manufacturing process for micro/nano satellites applications. 90 wt.% hydrogen peroxide was used as propellant and for propellant decomposition, Pt/Al2O3 was used as catalyst. Micro thruster structure was made by 5 photosensitive glasses patterned with thruster component profiles. Objective thrust was 50 mN and required hydrogen peroxide mass flow was 2.1 ml/min, which was supplied by syringe pump and teflon tube in experimental test. Performance test said that average steady thrust was approximately 30 mN, around 60% of objective thrust, and transient time was about 5 sec. It is estimated that extended response time was due to high thermal energy loss of micro scale thruster and low enthalpy input by propellant mass flow.

• 한국추진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국추진공학회 2007년도 제28회 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.45-48
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• 2007

기존에 사용되는 피에조 타입의 센서는 추력의 측정 범위가 제한되어 있으므로 이를 개선하고자 레이져 변위측정기와 cantilever를 이용하여 변위 측정 장치를 개선하였고, 스테인레스 캐필러리를 이용하여 추력 모델을 만든 후 추력을 측정하였다. 이와 더불어 extrude shape의 노즐을 갖는 마이크로 추력 장치를 PMMA(Polymethyl methacrylate)를 이용하여 공정하였으며, 매니스커스의 형상 변화를 관찰하였다.