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Chemical Rocket Design –
Propellant Injection
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Propellant Injection
In Liquid chemical rockets, propellants are stored in tanks and need to be injected in the chamber to lead to a reaction.
For smooth, complete combustion in the shortest time, the injection systems needs to:• Enhance rapid mixing and burning• Maintain smooth flow
Eliott Wertheimer
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Propellant Injectors
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Optimal injection is achieved by using injector heads with small holes angled in different directions.
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Combustion Instability
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Design faults in the injection system can lead to a number of types of combustion instabilities:
• Rough start –propellants build up in chamber before ignition, causes over pressure at start
• Chugging – low frequency (<100 Hz) oscillations, due to instabilities in the feed system
• Screaming- high frequency (>1kHz) oscillations, normally due to problems in the injector or chamber
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Design Rules for Propellant Feed Systems
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• Start off from the required chamber pressure (10s-100s bar)• Add pressure loss from the injectors (10s bar)• Add pressure loss through cooling system • Add other flow losses
The resulting sum is the total pressure the feed system needs to supply the propellants at!
2 main types of feed systems:• Pressure fed• Pump Fed
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Pressure Fed Systems
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• Use a gas as a pressurant to push the propellant into the chamber.
• To ensure a good feed, the system must be kept at more than 1000kPa (10 bar) higher than the chamber.
• Simple, reliable but heavy
• Mainly used in satellites and upper launcher stages
• 2 types: blowdown and regulated
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Blowdown
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• Pressurant and propellant kept in the same tank sometimes separated by a bladder.
• Pressure goes down as propellant is injected due to increasing pressurant volume.
• Usually, half the tank’s volume is pressurant, so pressure goes down by half.
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Regulated
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• The pressurant is stored in a separate tank at very high pressures while a regulator provides constant pressure to the fuel tanks.
• This system can therefore be sized for a particular propellant giving better mass efficiency and longer burns.
• In long burns, problems can occur as propellant warms up and its pressure increases.
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Pump Fed Systems
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• Turbines are used to increase the pressure at which the propellants are fed. This allows:
• Low pressure storage tanks which are thus lighter• Higher chamber pressures
• But, they are more complex
• The pumps are powered by the main propellants and can output between the order of the kW to the MW.
• 2 types: open and closed cycles
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Open vs. Closed Pump Fed Systems
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• Open cycles: the exhaust from pump turbines is dumped overboard.
• Closed cycles: the exhaust from pump turbines is introduced into the combustion chamber to be expanded by the nozzle.
• Closed cycles are more efficient but also more complex.
• If propellants densities are the same then one shaft only can run through the turbine otherwise two are required.
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Example Closed Cycle
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Combustion Chamber Design Considerations
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• The chamber’s volume has to be large enough to allow for mixing, evaporation and complete combustion.
• Required volumes vary according to the propellants used and their reaction times, temperature/pressure.
• You want to get the volume as small as possible to save space and weight but a too small volume can lead to incomplete combustion and wasted propellant.
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Combustion Chamber Design Considerations
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• In rocket design weight is a PREMIUM. It is a function of pressure and configuration. Minimising surface area helps but imparts cooling.
• Manufacturing always has to be taken into account: simple shapes and standard material thicknesses.
• The chamber impacts the length and width of the rocket as a whole.
• The acceleration of propellants leads to a gas pressure drop that should be minimised: sectional area of the chamber > 3*sectional area at throat
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Aerodynamic Design
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• Aerodynamics are a very complex issue.
• We want to maximise the coefficient of thrust by keeping the chamber pressure high.
• The nozzle’s shape needs to be optimised for expansion and adapted throughout the flight.