Accession Number:

ADD002128

Title:

Propellant Composition Containing Beryllium and an Energetic Difluoramino Containing Binder.

Descriptive Note:

Patent,

Corporate Author:

DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY WASHINGTON D C

Personal Author(s):

• Randolph,Kendall B.
• Childs,Lewis B.

Report Date:

1974-08-20

Pagination or Media Count:

5.0

Abstract:

The patent relates to a high energy composite propellant composition comprising a fuel component of beryllium, beryllium hydride and mixtures thereof in an energic difluoramino containing binder material such as 2,3-bisdifluoraminopropyl acrylate NFPA addition polymerized with a vinyl monomer such as 2-hydroxyl propyl methacrylate and further plasticized with 1,2,3-trisalpha beta-bisdifluoraminoethoxy propane TVOPA, additional oxidizer such as ammonium perchlorate in amount sufficient to assure complete oxidation of the binder and fuel component and cured.

Descriptors:

• *Solid rocket propellants
• *Double base rocket propellants
• *Patents
• Fluoropolymers
• Solid rocket propellant binders
• Performance tests
• Beryllium compounds
• Density
• Chemical composition
• Fluoroamines

Subject Categories:

• Solid Rocket Propellants

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE