Advanced materials for combustion chambers and nozzles of high energy propellant rocket engines with fluorine and/or metal combustion
- Paper ID
IAF-70-41
- author
- company
DFVLR - Institute for Reactions Kinetics, High Energy Propellant Department
- country
Germany
- year
1970
- abstract
Chemical rocket propellants will continue to play an important part in propulsion technology for a considerable period of time. Their development will culminate in the application of high energy propellant systems and then be terminated. The highest specific performance is delivered by systems characterized by the use of certain metals as fuels and fluorine and fluorine compounds as oxidants. The most important metallic fuels are beryllium, lithium and aluminum, due to their extremely high energy of combustion with oxygen or fluorine. The energy release is especially high when the reaction products reach the solid state forming smoke, since then additional condensation energy is liberated.