Accession Number:
ADA199373
Title:
Experiments with Liquid Gun Propellants
Descriptive Note:
Technical rept.
Corporate Author:
ARMY BALLISTIC RESEARCH LAB ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND MD
Personal Author(s):
Report Date:
1988-08-01
Pagination or Media Count:
44.0
Abstract:
Closed chamber and gun firing tests on various liquid monopropellants were performed at the Fraunhofer-Institute EMI-AFB and the Ballistic Research Laboratory BRL. The objectives of the study were twofold 1 to investigate the ignition requirements of the propellants in both a closed chamber and a gun and 2 to investigate the combustion characteristics of the propellants, also in both a closed chamber and a gun. Pyrotechnic igniters were used in both the closed chamber and gun tests. The propellants tested at EMI-AFB were isopropyl nitrate, nitromethane, and three hydroxylammonium nitrate HAN based liquid monopropellants, NOS-365, LP 1845 and LP 1846, a variation of LP 1845. The gun tests at EMI-AFB were performed in a 28-mm regenerative liquid propellant gun RLPG. The propellants tested at the BRL were NOS-365, LP 1845 and LP 1846.
Descriptors:
- *SOLID PROPELLANTS
- *LIQUID PROPELLANTS
- FIRING TESTS(ORDNANCE)
- PROPELLANTS
- ISOMERS
- COMBUSTION
- IGNITION
- GUNS
- GUNFIRE
- HYDROXYL RADICALS
- IGNITERS
- PYROTECHNICS
- NITROMETHANE
- PROPYL RADICALS
- NITRATES
- LIQUID GUN PROPELLANTS
- AMMONIUM NITRATE
- MONOPROPELLANTS
- CLOSED ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS
- TEST AND EVALUATION
- REQUIREMENTS
Subject Categories:
- Liquid Rocket Propellants
- Solid Rocket Propellants