Silanes/H2O2 : A High-Performance Synthetic Bipropellant for Chemical Space Propulsion

Hidding, B.; Pfitzner, Michael; Bruno, Claudio; Simone, Domenico

doi:10.2514/1.30346

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“…In an attempt to replace hydrazines with low-or no-toxicity fuels and oxidizers, significant research has been undertaken to utilize high purity hydrogen peroxide (H 2 O 2 ), known as HTP (high test peroxide) or RGHP (rocket grade hydrogen peroxide) [28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36]. Hydrogen peroxide is especially proficient as a nontoxic propellant; decomposing into oxygen and water.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…However, when catalyzed with a 5% CuCl 2 , ethanolamine can react hypergolically with 85% H 2 O 2 within 200 ms, and within 30 ms with 10% CuCl 2 [34]. Pyrrole will also react hypergolically with HTP with or without CuCl 2 [32,33,35]. However, storage of catalyzed pyrrole leads to polymerization of the fuel [31,32].…”

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“…Both [31,32] explored the use of 25% triethylaluminum (TEA) in hexane, where it hypergolically ignited with H 2 O 2 [31,32]. Various gaseous and liquid silicon hydrides (silanes) were examined using thermodynamic codes for their propensity as propellants with H 2 O 2 [35]. As the silanes have positive heats of formation, these materials have a wide range oxidizer-fuel ratios leading to high-impulse [35].…”

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Advances in Hypergolic Propellants: Ignition, Hydrazine, and Hydrogen Peroxide Research

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2014

Advances in Aerospace Engineering

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A review of the literature pertaining to hypergolic fuel systems, particularly using hydrazine or its derivatives and hydrogen peroxide, has been conducted. It has been shown that a large effort has been made towards minimizing the risks involved with the use of a toxic propellant such as the hydrazine. Substitution of hydrazines for nontoxic propellant formulations such as the use of high purity hydrogen peroxide with various types of fuels is one of the major areas of study for future hypergolic propellants. A series of criteria for future hypergolic propellants has been recommended, including low toxicity, wide temperature range applicability, short ignition delay, high specific impulse or density specific impulse, and storability at room temperature.

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Advances in Hypergolic Propellants: Ignition, Hydrazine, and Hydrogen Peroxide Research

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2014

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“…As presented in Refs. [70,71], the theoretical specific impulse with silanes/98% H 2 O 2 significantly outperforms the standard rocket bipropellant MMH/NTO.…”

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“…[42,58,70,71]. The numerical prediction of rocket and scramjet performance has not been possible before, because the thermodynamic temperature-dependent properties of these silanes have not been available.…”

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