Hidding, Bernhard; Fikri, Mustapha; Bozkurt, Metehan; Schulz, Christof; Soltner, Theresa; Kornath, Andreas; Pfitzner, Michael; Lang, Martin; Adamczyk, Andrew J.; Boradbelt, Linda; Ellerbrock, Hartwig; Simone, Domenico; Bruno, Claudio:
Spiking of Hydrocarbon Fuels with Silanes-based Combustion Enhancers
In: Transactions of the Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Science, Aerospace Technology Japan, Jg. 8 (2010), Heft 27, S. 39 - 45
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Titel:
Spiking of Hydrocarbon Fuels with Silanes-based Combustion Enhancers
Autor*in:
Hidding, Bernhard;Fikri, MustaphaUDE
LSF ID
15728
ORCID
0000-0001-6761-1808ORCID iD
Sonstiges
der Hochschule zugeordnete*r Autor*in
;
Bozkurt, MetehanUDE
LSF ID
50302
Sonstiges
der Hochschule zugeordnete*r Autor*in
;
Schulz, ChristofUDE
GND
110671317
GND
1148037985
LSF ID
48807
ORCID
0000-0002-6879-4826ORCID iD
Sonstiges
der Hochschule zugeordnete*r Autor*in
;
Soltner, Theresa;Kornath, Andreas;Pfitzner, Michael;Lang, Martin;Adamczyk, Andrew J.;Boradbelt, Linda;Ellerbrock, Hartwig;Simone, Domenico;Bruno, Claudio
Erscheinungsjahr:
2010

Abstract:

The concept of spiking hydrocarbon fuels such as kerosenes with liquid silicon hydrides in order to render the fuel combination hypergolic and to improve the combustion efficiency is presented and preliminarily analyzed. In view of scarcity of available data, various approaches are used, among them quantum-mechanical ab initio calculations for the thermodynamics and shock-tube measurements for the inetics of higher, liquid silanes. Based on these results and other data, performance predictions indicate that iscible hydrocarbon/silicon hydride fuels (HC/SH) have the potential to be stored in a single tank, to be hypergolic ith many oxidizers, and to yield similar, partly better specific impulses (and volume-specific impulses) than ydrocarbon fuels without silane additives. A variety of hybrid HC/SH fuel combinations seems to be accessible, hich might offer the possibility to design a fuel combination with characteristics adjustable in a wide range. The current and future availability of larger amounts of liquid silanes is discussed.