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Thermochemical Analysis of Hypergolic Propellants Based on Triethylaluminum/Nitrous Oxide Hindawi Publishing Corporation International Journal of Aerospace Engineering Volume 2014, Article ID 269836, 5 pages http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/269836 Research Article Thermochemical Analysis of Hypergolic Propellants Based on Triethylaluminum/Nitrous Oxide Stephen M. Davis and Nadir Yilmaz Department of Mechanical Engineering, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM 87801, USA Correspondence should be addressed to Nadir Yilmaz; [email protected] Received 6 June 2014; Accepted 30 July 2014; Published 27 August 2014 Academic Editor: Linda L. Vahala Copyright © 2014 S. M. Davis and N. Yilmaz. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The vacuum specific impulse, density vacuum specific impulse, and solid exhaust products were examined for several propellant formulations based on the pyrophoric material triethylaluminum (TEA) using CEA thermodynamics code. Evaluation of TEA neat and mixed with hydrocarbon fuels with LOX, N2O, N2O4, liquefied air, and HNO3 were performed at stoichiometry. The vacuum specific impulse of neat TEA with N2O is comparable to that of nitric acid with the same, but the N2O formulation will produce slightly less solid products during combustion. Additionally, N2O-TEA propellants have vacuum specific impulses and density vacuum specific impulses within 92.9% and 86.7% of traditional hydrazine propellant formulations under stoichiometric conditions. 1. Introduction ratio [12]. Mixing in a hydrocarbon solvent also improves the safety of TEA by preventing its ignition with atmospheric Nitrous oxide is a commonly used propellant in various oxygen [12, 13]. For these reasons it is important to determine applications ranging from aerosol cans to racing vehicles and not only the performance such as specific impulse (Isp), novel rocket propellants. Because nitrous oxide may self- density specific impulse ( Isp), and ignition delay of TEA pressurize, there has been significant work to develop novel with a given oxidizer, but also the effect a solvent has on monopropellants using this oxidizer [1–6]. Additionally, the the system. In the current work, Isp, Isp, and the amount oxidation potential of nitrous oxide makes it an oxidizer of condensed species in the exhaust were examined. For of comparable strength to hydrogen peroxide (1.766 V and simplicity, all specific impulse values used refer to the vacuum 1.776 V,resp. [7]), where hydrogen peroxide is known to ignite specific impulse, not the specific impulse at sea level. hypergolically with pyrophoric materials such as silane and triethylaluminum (TEA) [8, 9]. Pyrophoric materials such 2. Method as TEA therefore appear to be ideal first-pass candidates for nitrous oxide hypergolic fuels. The case for these chemicals A thermochemical evaluation of TEA mixed with hydro- is further strengthened by the use of TEA and SiH4 as carbon solvents hexane, methanol, aniline, nitromethane, supersonic combustion aids, since supersonic combustion and nitropropane was performed with the oxidizers liquid requires highly flammable fuels9 [ ]. Moreover, TEA reduces oxygen (LOX), nitrogen tetroxide (NTO, N2O4), nitrous the ignition delay of hydrazine with nitrogen tetroxide [9]and ∘ oxide (N2O), liquefied air, and nitric acid (HNO3)usingthe ignites with air at temperatures as low as −40 C[10]. 2 NASA Lewis Code Chemical Equilibrium with Applications However, the mass burning rate of TEA (0.029 kg/m -s) (CEA2) [14]. Table 1 shows the density and molecular weight is much slower than short chain hydrocarbon fuels such as of propellant components. The binary fuels were prepared 2 2 hexane (0.077 kg/m -s) and isopentane (0.103 kg/m -s) [11]. with 0, 10, 20, 25, 50, 75, and 100% TEA by mass. Each TEA diluted with a hydrocarbon fuel has mass burning rates reaction was simulated at stoichiometry with a given oxidizer comparable to the neat hydrocarbon, depending on mixing as determined by the method outlined in Jain et al. [15]at 2 International Journal of Aerospace Engineering Table 1: Density and molecular weight of propellant components. 3400 3200 Name MW Specific gravity (water = 1) Ref. 3000 a 2800 Nitrous oxide 44.01 1.2228 [17] (Ns/kg) 2600 vac 2400 Nitrogen tetroxide/NO2 92.01 1.443 [7] b Isp 2200 Liquid oxygen 32 1.1905 [7] 2000 Nitric acid 63.01 1.5129 [7] 0 102030405060708090100 Hydrazine 32.05 1.0036 [7] TEA (weight %) MMH 46.07 0.875 [7] LOX Liquid air UDMH 60.1 0.791 [7] N2O HNO3 Methanol 32.04 0.7914 [7] N2O4 TEA 114.17 0.832 [7] Figure 2: Ispvac of TEA-methanol fueled propellants. Hexane 86.18 0.6606 [7] Nitromethane 61.04 1.1371 [7] 1-Nitropropane 89.09 0.9961 [7] 3400 Aniline 93.13 1.0217 [7] 3200 c 3000 Air 28.84 0.959 [7] 2800 a1.013 bars, 184.5 K b1.013 bars, 80 K; c59.75 K. (Ns/kg) 2600 vac 2400 Isp 2200 3400 2000 3200 0 102030405060708090100 3000 TEA (weight %) 2800 (Ns/kg) 2600 LOX Liquid air vac 2400 N2O HNO3 Isp 2200 N2O4 2000 0 102030405060708090100 Figure 3: Ispvac of TEA-aniline fueled propellants. TEA (weight %) LOX Liquid air N2O HNO3 3400 N2O4 3200 3000 2800 Figure 1: Ispvac of TEA-hexane fueled propellants. (Ns/kg) 2600 vac 2400 Isp 2200 2000 a chamber pressure of 2.068 MPa. The initial temperature of 0 102030405060708090100 ∘ each fuel component was set to 25 C, with the exception of TEA (weight %) − ∘ − ∘ cryogenic components LOX ( 185 C) and liquid air ( 195 C). LOX Liquid air The heat of formation for TEA (AlC6H15)andliquidair N2O HNO3 (79% nitrogen, 21% oxygen) were manually added to CEA as N2O4 −187.3 kJ/mol [16] and 0 kJ/mol. The chemistry was allowed to change through a simulated 1 : 10 expansion nozzle. Figure 4: Ispvac of TEA-nitromethane fueled propellants. 3. Results and Discussion 3400 3200 In terms of vacuum specific impulse (Ispvac) there is little 3000 2800 difference between the performance of nitric acid and nitrous (Ns/kg) 2600 oxide. The average difference between N2OandHNO3 in vac 2400 terms of Ispvac was between 0.1% and 1.5%, depending on Isp 2200 the solvent. Depending on the concentration of TEA, the 2000 0 102030405060708090100 minimum Ispvac for the N2OandHNO3 formulations is 2794 Ns/kg for hexane, 2730 Ns/kg for methanol, 2728 Ns/kg TEA (weight %) for aniline, 2811 Ns/kg for nitromethane, and 2788 Ns/kg for LOX Liquid air nitropropane as seen in Figures 1, 2, 3, 4,and5.Theexception N2O HNO3 is methanol, where the minimum impulse was at 10% TEA N2O4 when burned with HNO3 (Figure 2). The Ispvac for neat TEA with LOX, N2O, NTO, air, and HNO3 is 3066 Ns/kg, Figure 5: Ispvac of TEA-1-nitropropane fueled propellants. International Journal of Aerospace Engineering 3 4000 4000 3600 3600 3200 3200 (Ns/kg) 2800 (Ns/kg) 2800 vac 2400 vac 2400 Isp 2000 Isp 2000 1600 1600 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 0 102030405060708090100 TEA (weight %) TEA (weight %) LOX Liquid air LOX Liquid air N2O HNO3 N2O HNO3 N2O4 N2O4 Figure 6: Ispvac of TEA-hexane fueled propellants. Figure 10: Ispvac of TEA-1-nitropropane fueled propellants. 4000 3600 3200 2838 Ns/kg, 2901 Ns/kg, 2243 Ns/kg, and 2813 Ns/kg, respec- (Ns/kg) 2800 tively. LOX and N2O4 formulations were predicted to have vac 2400 an average 6.3–9% and 1.8–2.7% greater impulse, respectively, Isp 2000 than N2O formulations, depending on the solvent and TEA 1600 0 102030405060708090100 concentration. The specific impulse ofN2Owas21.7–28.9% TEA (weight %) greater than for the liquefied air series, depending on solvent. In a rocket, it is important to consider not only the thrust LOX Liquid air apropellantmayproduce,butalsohowlargeofastoragetank N2O HNO3 the propellant requires; the lower the density of the formula- N2O4 tion the greater the volume it occupies and therefore requires Figure 7: Isp of TEA-MeOH fueled propellants. a more massive storage tank, increasing the total mass of vac the rocket. Therefore, it is necessary to evaluate the impulse weighted by the density of the propellant. In order to maintain units, the specific gravity of each propellant (with water 4000 equalto1.0)wasmultipliedtothevacuumspecificimpulse. 3600 3200 Figures 6, 7, 8, 9,and10 show nearly equivalent Isp for (Ns/kg) 2800 the oxidizers LOX and N2O, regardless of the secondary fuel. vac 2400 As seen in the figures, the impulses are between 3126 and Isp 2000 3299 Ns/kg for hexane, 3291 and 3382 Ns/kg for aniline, 3291 1600 and 3383 Ns/kg for nitromethane, and 3277 and 3311 Ns/kg for 0 102030405060708090100 nitropropane, depending on TEA concentration. TEA (weight %) With the exception of aniline and methanol, the highest LOX Liquid air impulse for these formulations is for neat TEA and the least N2O HNO3 for neat fuel. Neat aniline had the highest Isp in its series N2O4 with the lowest impulse with neat TEA. The minimum Isp for methanol was calculated for 10% TEA, with neat TEA Figure 8: Isp of TEA-aniline fueled propellants. vac having the highest impulse. Density impulses for nitric acid with fuel were comparable to those of nitrogen tetroxide with fuel for all TEA formulation besides hexane, where 4000 the nitric acid had on average 4.1% higher density impulse 3600 3200 than nitrogen tetroxide formulations. On average, nitric acid (Ns/kg) 2800 outperformed N2O formulations by 9.8–14.9% and nitrogen vac 2400 tetroxide outperforms N2O by 8.4–12.2%. Nitrous oxide had Isp 2000 density vacuum specific impulses 46–57.7% greater than for 1600 liquefied air propellants on average.
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