Preparation and use of ammonium azide as a fuel additive to ionic oxidizer solutions. Physicochemical properties, thermal and catalytic decomposition

Collection of Technical Papers - AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE 42nd Joint Propulsion Conference

Volumn 4, Issue , 2006, Pages 2564-2572

  Farhat, Kamal ^a,c   Batonneau, Yann ^a,c,d   Florea, Ondina ^a,e   Kappenstein, Charles ^a,c,d   Ford, Mark ^b,f  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^c Chemistry Department   (France)

^d AIAA   (United States)

^e ALEXANDRU IOAN CUZA UNIVERSITY OF IASI   (Romania)

^f Mechanical Engineering Department

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; FUEL ADDITIVES; GLYCEROL; ION EXCHANGERS; IONIC LIQUIDS; LIQUID PROPELLANTS; PYROLYSIS; VAPORIZATION;

AMMONIUM AZIDE; CATALYTIC DECOMPOSITION; IONIC OXIDIZERS; MONOPROPELLANTS;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 34249292631     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2006-4564     Document Type: Conference Paper

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