Structural impact of honeycomb catalysts on hydrogen peroxide decomposition for micro propulsion

Chemical Engineering Research and Design

Volumn 90, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2302-2315

  Krejci, David ^a   Woschnak, Alexander ^a   Scharlemann, Carsten ^b   Ponweiser, Karl ^c  

^a FOTEC GmbH   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES WIENER NEUSTADT   (Austria)

^c VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Decomposition; Hydrogen peroxide; Micro propulsion; Propulsion

Indexed keywords

BI-PROPELLANT SYSTEM; DECOMPOSITION BEHAVIORS; DECOMPOSITION PERFORMANCE; ELEVATED TEMPERATURE; FINITE ELEMENT; GOOD CORRELATIONS; HONEYCOMB CATALYSTS; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE DECOMPOSITION; LUMPED PARAMETER MODELS; MICRO PROPULSION; MONOLITH CATALYST; NUMERICAL RESULTS; NUMERICAL THERMAL MODEL; ONE-DIMENSIONAL FLOW MODELS; RADIAL TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS; ROCKET PROPELLANTS; START-UPS; STRUCTURAL DOMAINS; STRUCTURAL IMPACT; STRUCTURAL MASS; THRUSTER SYSTEM; VALVE OPENING;

DECOMPOSITION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; PROPULSION;

CATALYSTS;

EID: 84870235967     PISSN: 02638762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cherd.2012.05.015     Document Type: Article

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