Objective
The proposed project aims to validate the potential use of a novel non-toxic propellant for space applications as a substitute to hydrazine. To this aim, nanoaluminium - water slurries will be investigated in order to develop best methods for their preparation, atomisation and combustion.
The research programme is composed of the following tasks:
- Identification of best methods for production of Al nanoparticles, including particles with non-oxide coatings, and for their storage and mixing with gelled water.
- Determination of the rheological properties of nanoAl/gelled water slurry and of its atomisation and ignition characteristics.
- Determination of single nanoAl/H2O slurry droplet combustion regimes and ignition/combustion characteristics under different experimental conditions, such as particle size, mass fraction of Al, pressure of ambient gas, and heating rate.
- Determination of the combustion wave structure in bulk samples of Al/gelled water slurries and the completeness of its combustion depending on particle size (in both nano and micro scales) and on the level of water gelling.
- Development of mathematical models for combustion of Al nanoparticles in water vapour.
A consortium of five teams will conduct this research program:
- Laboratoire de Combustion et Systemes Réactifs (LCSR), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Orleans, France (Co-ordinator)
- University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy
- Institute of Chemical Kinetics and Combustion (ICKC), Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia
- Tomsk State University (TSU), Tomsk, Russia
- Institute of High Current Electronics (IHCE), Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Tomsk, Russia.
- Institute for Energy Problems of Chemical Physics (INEPCP), Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
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