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6948306 Apparatus and method of using supersonic combustion heater for hypersonic materials and propulsion testing  
A supersonic combustion apparatus and method of using the same including a side wall cavity having an enhanced mixing system with ground-based oxygen injection for hypersonic material and engine...
6931832 Monopropellant combustion system  
An apparatus and method are provided for decomposition of a propellant. The propellant includes an ionic salt and an additional fuel. Means are provided for decomposing a major portion of the ionic...
6832471 Expander cycle rocket engine with staged combustion and heat exchange  
In a supersonic nozzle incorporating injectors and a combustion chamber as part of an expander cycle rocket engine, the oxidizer is injected in two streams. One of the streams, preferably a small...
6668541 Method and apparatus for spraying fuel within a gas turbine engine  
A fuel spraybar assembly for spraying fuel within a gas turbine engine. The spraybar assembly includes radial and lateral members that distribute fuel within the flowpath. In one embodiment two...
6250072 Multi-ignition controllable solid-propellant gas generator  
Batch-mode and continuous-mode decomposition of nitrous oxide is used to provide multiple ignitions of a solid-propellant gas generator and subsequently control its output gas temperature and flow...
5925322 Fuel cell or a partial oxidation reactor or a heat engine and an oxygen-enriching device and method therefor  
The present invention relates to a combined cycle system of enhanced efficiency. The system comprises a top stage, such as a fuel cell, a partial oxidation reactor or a heat engine, and an...
5873240 Pulsed detonation rocket engine  
A pulse detonation rocket engine, having at least two detonation chambers. The rocket propelled vehicle includes at least one fuel delivery system in fluid communication with each of the at least...
5727368 Hybrid motor system with a consumable catalytic bed a composition of the catalytic bed and a method of using  
A method, device and composition for achieving ignition and sustained combustion using a solid consumable catalytic bed (CCB) is described. The CCB accomplishes this by decomposition of an injected...
5582001 Hybrid rocket combustion enhancement  
The combustion of a hybrid engine is improved by continuously injecting into a precombustion chamber a hypergolic fluid such as triethyl aluminum which exothermically reacts with and vaporizes the...
5487267 Suppression of infrared radiation emissions from jet engines  
A reduction in the emission of infrared radiation by the engine of a jet aircraft can be achieved by employing a low molecular weight monohydric alcohol, having a luminometer number of at least...
5339624 Ramjet propellants  
The present invention relates to a general method for increasing the energy conversion from metal-containing rocket and ramjet propellants. According to the invention, this is achieved by means of...
5320692 Solid fuel ramjet composition  
A ramjet solid fuel composed of Hydroxyl terminated polybutadiene aluminum, agnesium, and boron carbide is described. The high volumetric heating value fuel of the present invention significantly...
5143566 Composite solid propellant with a metal/inorganic fluoride admixture or a stable burning rate  
A composite solid propellant with a stable burning rate comprising an oxidizer, a binder system of telomeric polybutadiene or copolymers of butadiene and acrylonitrile with terminal functional...
5139587 Composite solid propellant with a pulverulent metal/oxidizer agglomerate base  
A composite solid propellant with a stable burning rate comprising ammonium perchlorate, a binder system of telomeric polybutadiene or copolymers of butadiene and acrylonitrile with terminal...
5099644 Lean staged combustion assembly  
A combustion assembly includes a combustor having inner and outer liners, and pilot stage and main stage combustion means disposed between the liners. A turbine nozzle is joined to downstream ends...
5085717 Autopyrolyzable composition for aerobic propulsion, the oxidizing agent of which is an explosive  
An autopyrolyzable solid composition for aerobic propulsion consists essentially of an oxidizing agent, a binder and a crosslinking agent. The oxidizing agent is a nitrated explosive material...
5012719 Method of and apparatus for generating hydrogen and projectile accelerating apparatus and method incorporating same  
A projectile is accelerated through a barrel by a high pressure hydrogen gas jet that is derived by exothermically reacting water or a water-hydrogen peroxide liquid mixture with metal or a metal...
4925909 Gas-generating agent for use in ducted rocket engine  
A gas-generating agent for use in a ducted rocket engine essentially consists of an aliphatic polyester represented by the formula: ##STR1## or the formula: ##STR2## and a curing agent and...
4787579 Gas thruster  
A thruster system has a main bipropellant propulsion unit including a propulsion engine (50) and bipropellant supply having a tank (3) for an oxidizing agent and a tank (4) for a fuel. An auxiliary...
4527389 Highly soluble, non-hazardous hydroxylammonium salt solutions for use in hybrid rocket motors  
Non-hazardous, highly soluble hydroxylammonium salt solutions are disclosed. These solutions have utility as liquid oxidizers in solid/liquid hybrid rocket motors.
4452039 Expendable infrared source and method therefor  
An IR source and method for generating IR radiation whereby a propellant is urned in a first chamber to produce a product gas which is exited through a critical exit, is accelerated to a supersonic...
4392895 Ramjet fuel  
A solid ramjet fuel composition comprising a hydroxyl-terminated or carbo-terminated fluorocarbon binder, a polybutadiene prepolymer, a curative cross-linking compound, and a metal selected from...
4332631 Castable silicone based magnesium fueled propellant  
A castable solid propellant composition suitable for use as a fuel generator for a ducted rocket motor is provided. The binder for the composition is a crosslinked polysiloxane. The polysiloxane...
4133173 Ducted rockets  
The overall efficiency of a reaction engine having primary and secondary combustion chambers is greatly improved by reducing the primary exhaust velocity to subsonic speed. This is accomplished in...
4007597 Power plant and system for accelerating a cross compound turbine in such plant, especially one having an HTGR steam supply  
An electric power plant having a cross compound steam turbine and a steam source that includes a high temperature gas-cooled nuclear reactor. The steam turbine includes high and...
3946555 Process for simulating turbojet engine plumes  
A process for simulating the infrared radiation in wave length and intensity and the spatially extended characteristics of the plumes of turbojet engines comprising burning fuel-rich solid gas...
3908358 Variable flow gas generating method and system  
A method and apparatus for rapidly generating a controllably variable flow of motive gas at an elevated temperature and pressure in a gas generating system. The system comprises a driver gas...
3898798 Subliming solids bipropellant fuel system power generator  
A generator using a bipropellant fuel system for producing usable power from solid reactants which are sublimed as required to produce vapors and the vapors are chemically reacted to release stored...
3882673 Method of using liquid oxidants to obtain purified gases from solid propellants  
This invention relates to a method of obtaining the release of a large amount of epurated gas at a moderate temperature in an extremely short time whereby, for example, a safety cushion or bag for...
3811280 PROCESS OF USING STORABLE PROPELLANT FUELS IN SUPERSONIC COMBUSTION RAMJETS  
Liquid propellant fuels such as liquid hydrazines, amine fuels, and blends hereof with hydrocarbons used as storable fuels for supersonic combustion in ramjets. The storable liquid fuel is...
3791140 OPERATION OF HYBRID ROCKET SYSTEMS  
In the operation of a hybrid rocket system, a solid fuel consisting essentially of a polybutadiene, trimethylolpropane trimethacrylate, polymethylmethacrylate and an organic peroxide is burned in a...
3788069 LIQUID FUELED ROCKET ENGINE OF THE MAIN CURRENT TYPE HAVING SEPARATE CONTROL NOZZLES OPERATED FROM TURBINE EXHAUST GASES BRANCHED OFF FROM THE ROCKET PROCESS  
A liquid fueled rocket engine of the so-called main current type in which combustion gases are generated in a precombustion chamber and directed in series to a fuel component pump drive turbine and...
3779008 ELECTROPHILLIC GAS GENERATING COMPOSITIONS AND PROCESS  
Gas-generating, combustion-sustaining compositions, which produce electrophillic combustion products in amounts effective to attach free electrons in the atmospheric wake of a rapidly moving...
3772885 METHOD FOR SEPARATION OF A FLUID MONERGOL FOR RUNNING A ROCKET MOTOR  
A method for the separation of a fluid Monergol in order to run a gas generator especially for rocket motors comprises dividing the fluid Monergol mass into a plurality of separate Monergol partial...
3765174 METHOD FOR GENERATING A NONCONDENSIBLE GASEOUS FLUID COMPATIBLE WITH INTERHALOGEN OXIDIZERS USING PHOSPHONITRILIC CHLORIDE  
Phosphonitrilic chloride (PNCl 2 ) and polymers thereof are hypergolic with interhalogen oxidizers. The gaseous products of this reaction are insoluble in and nonreactive with liquid interhalogen...
3754511 FUEL AND FUEL IGNITER FOR RAM JET AND ROCKET  
1. A fuel unit for forced air flow ram jet combustion chambers comprising a riquet of compressed mixed powdered oxidants and reductants, a magnesium shell encasing said briquet, and a film of...
3732693 CONTROLLABLE SOLID PROPULSION SYSTEM  
A controllable solid propulsion system for aero-space vehicles, comprising a fuel in gel form contained in a collapsible bellows within a pressurizable fuel tank of small length-to-diameter ratio,...
3719046 ROCKET ENGINE COOLING SYSTEM  
An oxidizer, such as nitrogen tetroxide or fluorine, is introduced into a reaction chamber in the path of the decomposition products of hydrazine and reacts therewith to form high temperature, high...
3712058 SOLID PROPELLANT CONTROLLED ROCKET MOTORS  
7. A method of rocket propulsion which comprises providing a solid grain containing a major proportion of a material which is partially decomposible into gaseous intermediates; igniting said grain...
3683622 METHOD OF SUPPLYING A PROPULSION DEVICE WITH FUEL  
A propulsion system for a submarine includes an electric motor driving a propeller supplied with current from a fuel cell battery and a hydrocarbon burning engine. The fuel in the form of a...
3677010 ROCKET MOTOR AND METHOD  
7. The method of operating a solid-fueled rocket motor to vary the total ulse achieved, said motor comprising, in combination, a substantially cylindrical outside wall which forms a chamber, said...
3672165 METHOD OF FEEDING LIQUID PROPELLANTS TO GAS GENERATORS OR ROCKET COMBUSTION CHAMBERS AND FEEDING SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING THE METHOD  
A method of feeding liquid monergolic propellants, either alone or with lid non-monergolic propellants, to gas generators or rocket combustion chambers, utilizes jet pumps, connected to propellant...
3668872 SOLID PROPELLANT ROCKET  
A method and apparatus for utilizing the volatility of the combustion products of solid metallic propellants to accelerate metal combustion products to gaseous velocity by recondensing the gaseous...
3577735 LIQUID FUEL ROCKET ENGINE CONSTRUCTION  
A liquid fuel rocket engine construction includes the usual main combustion chamber having a nozzle discharge. One or more precombustion chambers are arranged ahead of the main combustion chamber...
3545211 RESONANT PULSE ROCKET  
3521453 ELECTROLYTIC METHOD FOR INITIATING AND CONTINUING DECOMPOSITION OF AN EXOTHERMIC PROPELLANT  
3517508 ROCKET PROCESS EMPLOYING ELECTROLYSIS  
3511054 METHOD OF ROCKET PROPULSION USING AUXILIARY GAS STREAM TO STABILIZE IRREGULAR BURNING  
3486338 AIR BREATHING MISSILE  
3423942 STANDING DETONATION WAVE ROCKET ENGINE  
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