화학공학소재연구정보센터
Combustion and Flame, Vol.219, 212-224, 2020
Linear burn rate of green ionic liquid multimode monopropellant
Multimode space propulsion systems are being proposed that integrate high specific impulse electric propulsion and high thrust chemical propulsion. The most important attribute of this concept is a shared propellant capable of both modes of propulsion, which enables mission flexibility. One promising ap-proach is a catalytic monopropellant thruster paired with an electrospray electric thruster. Previous re-search has identified a green double-salt ionic liquid consisting of 41% wt. 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium ethyl sulfate and 59% wt. hydroxylammonium nitrate as a promising propellant candidate. In this work, the burn rate of this monopropellant is measured through pressure-based and high-speed imaging meth-ods in a fixed-volume chamber pressurized across a pressure range from 0.5 to 10 MPa. Its performance is benchmarked by 80% wt. hydroxylammonium nitrate-water and nitromethane propellants. The burn rate of the multimode monopropellant is found to follow an exponential law given by r(b) = -5 . 35 exp 1 . 11 P between 0.5 and 3 MPa and is approximately constant at 142 +/- 29 mm/s between 3 and 10 MPa. (C) 2020 The Combustion Institute. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.