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Article #6772Re: Aluminum as Rocket Fuel?
From: Bruce Dunn
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1993 05:53
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1993 05:53
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> Karl Dishaw writes:
>
> --the injector plate is going to need an internal heater to keep the LAl
> from solidifying as it passes through and to keep it clean for restarts.
I would think that the easiest configuration would be for the
combusion chamber to thermally coupled to the tank of molten aluminum, with
only enough of an intermediate flow passage to insert a valve. When the
aluminum is melted in the tank, the fuel line, valve, and injector will all
be heated to above the melting point of aluminum.
--
Bruce Dunn Vancouver, Canada Bruce_Dunn@mindlink.bc.ca
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Newsgroups: sci.space Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!agate!rsoft!mindlink!a752 From: Bruce_Dunn@mindlink.bc.ca (Bruce Dunn) Subject: Re: Aluminum as Rocket Fuel? Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 05:53:56 GMT Message-ID: <19161@mindlink.bc.ca> Sender: news@deep.rsoft.bc.ca (Usenet) Lines: 18