- Tytuł:
- A thermodynamic study on catalytic decomposition of hydrazine in a space thruster
- Autorzy:
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Pakdehi, Shahram
Shirvani, Fatemeh
Zolfaghari, Reihaneh - Powiązania:
- https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/240211.pdf
- Data publikacji:
- 2019
- Wydawca:
- Polska Akademia Nauk. Czytelnia Czasopism PAN
- Tematy:
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catalytic thruster
hydrazine
ammonia
specific impulse
thermodynamic
analysis - Opis:
- Most satellites stationed in space use catalytic propulsion systems for attitude control and orbit adjustment. Hydrazine is consumed extensively as liquid monopropellant, in the thrusters. Catalytic reactor is the most important section in the catalytic thruster. Ammonia and nitrogen gases are produced as a result of complete catalytic decomposition of hydrazine in the reactor, causing an increase in temperature and a rise in specific impulse. Ammonia is subsequently decomposed, leading to nitrogen and hydrogen gases. Decomposition of ammonia leads to a decrease in temperature, molecular weight and specific impulse. The latter phenomenon is unavoidable. The effect of ammonia decomposition on the reactor temperature, molecular weight of gaseous products and conclusively on specific impulse was studied in this article. At adiabatic state, thermodynamic analysis revealed that the maximum and minimum temperatures were 1655 K and 773 K, respectively. The highest molecular weight was obtained at ammonia conversion of zero and the lowest when ammonia conversion was 100%. The maximum specific impulse (305.4 S) was obtained at ammonia conversion of zero and completely conversion of ammonia, the minimum specific impulse (about 213.7 s) was obtained. For specific impulse, the result of thermodynamic calculation in this work was validated by the empirical results.
- Źródło:
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Archives of Thermodynamics; 2019, 40, 4; 151-166
1231-0956
2083-6023 - Pojawia się w:
- Archives of Thermodynamics
- Dostawca treści:
- Biblioteka Nauki
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