Title
Developments on HNF based high performance and green solid propellants
Author
Keizers, H.L.J.
van der Heijden, A.E.D.M.
van Vliet, L.D.
Welland-Veltmans, W.H.M.
Ciucci, A.
Prins Maurits Laboratorium TNO
Contributor
Perry, M. (editor)
Publication year
2001
Abstract
Worldwide developments are ongoing to develop new and more energetic composite solid propellant formulations for space transportation and military applications. Since the 90's, the use of HNF as a new high performance oxidiser is being reinvestigated. Within European development programmes, significant improvements have been achieved with respect to the oxidiser itself as well as possible propellant formulations. Being more energetic, the newly developed formulations have the potential of significantly lowering the launch costs per kilogram weight. Although solid propellant motor launches are not considered to be of a major environmental issue, these new propellant formulations have the additional advantage of being less pollutive (no HCl in the exhaust). Recent achievements of the new propellant development work is presented in this paper, showing the potential of the actual introduction of new and more energetic propellant formulations within the next decade.
Subject
Air pollution
Aircraft fuels
Cost effectiveness
Environmental engineering
Exhaust gases
Hydrochloric acid
Low temperature effects
Military aircraft
Morphology
Precipitation (chemical)
Recrystallization (metallurgy)
Rocket engines
Space flight
Space research
Spacecraft propulsion
Thermodynamic stability
Energetic binders systems
Space transportation
Solid propellants
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TNO identifier
236313
ISSN
0379-6566
Source
Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Green Propellants for Space Propulsion, Noordwijk, Netherlands, 20-22 June 2001 (Conference code: 61989) (484), 111-118
Series
European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP
Document type
conference paper