Aerospace, Vol. 11, Pages 672: The Effect of 0–8 MPa Environmental Pressure on the Ignition and Combustion Process of CL20/NEPE Solid Propellant

Aerospace, Vol. 11, Pages 672: The Effect of 0–8 MPa Environmental Pressure on the Ignition and Combustion Process of CL20/NEPE Solid Propellant

Aerospace doi: 10.3390/aerospace11080672

Authors: Wenxiang Cai Wei Li Zhixiang Wang

In order to study the effect of pressure on the ignition and combustion process of CL-20/NEPE solid propellant, the ignition delay, burning rate, and maximum combustion temperature of different solid propellant formulations with an ambient pressure of 0.1~8.0 MPa were measured experimentally by a solid propellant laser ignition experiment system, and the agglomeration process and the characteristics of condensed phase combustion products were analyzed. The experimental results show that, with the increase of pressure, the ignition-delay time decreases, and the burning rate and the maximum combustion temperature increase. With the increase of pressure, the influence on propellant ignition and combustion characteristics becomes smaller. In the experiment, the dynamic agglomeration phenomenon of aluminum particles in the propellant was recorded by a high-speed camera combined with a microscopic camera lens, and the dynamic agglomeration phenomenon of the combustion surface of the propellant and the dynamic agglomeration phenomenon, after the initial agglomeration was separated from the surface, were analyzed and expounded. Based on the experiment and combined with the agglomeration phenomenon, a mathematical model capable of predicting the particle size of aluminum aggregates was proposed.