Abstract:
The ignition and combustion characteristics of a high-energy material containing ammonium perchlorate, butadiene rubber, and an ultrafine powder mixture of aluminum, titanium, or iron with amorphous boron are presented. An experimental testbed, a CO22 laser, and a constant-pressure bomb are used to measure the ignition delay time and burning rate of the high-energy material while varying the heat flux density and pressure in the chamber. It is shown that replacing amorphous boron with ultrafine Al/B, Ti/B, or Fe/B in the material reduces the heating time and the moment of flame appearance on the propellant surface due to an increase in the reaction rate and a decrease in the oxidation temperature of these mixtures on the surface of the reaction layer. In this case, the burning rate of the high-energy materials with Me/B at excess pressures increases significantly (up to 240% for Al/B-HEM and up to 120% for Ti/B-HEM at a pressure of 5.0 MPa).
Keywords:
high-energy material, amorphous boron, energy-intensive metal fuel, oxidation, ignition delay time, burning rate.
Citation:
I. V. Sorokin, A. G. Korotkikh, “Effect of ultrafine powders Al/B, Ti/B, and Fe/B on the ignition and combustion characteristics of a high-energy material”, Fizika Goreniya i Vzryva, 59:6 (2023), 52–59; Combustion, Explosion and Shock Waves, 59:6 (2023), 716–723
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This publication is cited in the following 2 articles:
Zuodong Liang, Ming Jiang, Ronggang Wei, Hongyan Li, Shaoqing Hu, Kai Ma, Guiyang Xu, Wenjie Wang, Yanjing Yang, “Combustion Performance and Deposit Characteristics of Boron–Aluminum Composite Fuel in a Powder-Fueled Ramjet: A Ground Test Study”, Molecules, 30:7 (2025), 1503
Weiqiang Pang, Ivan Sorokin, Alexander Korotkikh, “Combustion of High-Energy Compositions (HECs) Containing Al-B, Ti-B and Fe-B Ultrafine Powders (UFPs)”, Nanomaterials, 15:7 (2025), 543