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A solid propellant micro-thruster using N2O for combustion control

Research Project

Project/Area Number 15K14255
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Research Field Aerospace engineering
Research InstitutionKyushu Institute of Technology

Principal Investigator

Tachibana Takeshi  九州工業大学, 大学院工学研究院, 教授 (50179719)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) 各務 聡  宮崎大学, 工学部, 准教授 (80415653)
Project Period (FY) 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2017)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥900,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
Keywords小型推進機 / 固体推進剤 / 燃焼制御 / 非自燃性 / 酸化剤供給 / 小型化学推進機 / 酸化剤
Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this research, we aimed at developing a small satellite thruster technology of a mechanism that enables ON-OFF included thrust control by supplying and adjusting the shortage of oxidizer component gas to fuel rich solid propellant by experiment and analysis. The test for fundamental phenomena using a strand combustor showed that the combustion rates were not much affected by N2O supply amount under the same combustion chamber pressure and N2O supply method, and that they increased with pressure rise like ordinary solid propellants. The test with a prototype thruster showed that the proposed concept is established, then that the corrected specific impulse was nearly 3/4 of the theoretical value, which was probabbly because of heat loss and the existence of wasted N2O not contributing to combustion reaction.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2017 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2016 Research-status Report
  • 2015 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (2 results)

All 2017 2016

All Presentation (2 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results)

  • [Presentation] Burning characteristics of non-self-combustible solid propellants controlled by N2O supply2017

    • Author(s)
      Kosei Fukuda, Takeshi Tachibana
    • Organizer
      6th Int'l Symposium on Energetic Materials (ISEM)
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] N20で制御する固体推進機2016

    • Author(s)
      田川武尊,入川良,各務聡,橘武史
    • Organizer
      火薬学会秋季研究発表講演会
    • Place of Presentation
      公立学校共済組合ホテルセントヒル長崎(長崎県長崎市)
    • Year and Date
      2016-11-10
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report

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Published: 2015-04-16   Modified: 2019-03-29  

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