On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 22:27:43 -0400, "Sean Patrick Daly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In my never ending search for a longer lasting/highly reactive catalyst >pack, I've noticed that the folks over at Boeing claim to have developed a >catalyst bed that was tested to 10,285 seconds with 98% H2O2. I'm sure that >this is not news to most of you, and may even seem like a normal number. To >me... it seems outrageous. Depends on the surface chemistry of the catalyst pack. Some pack designs expend the catalyst in order to be effective. The longer lasting designs, obviously, don't. >http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/space/rdyne/whatsnew/042502_h2o2.html >"The catalyst bed testing demonstrated that we can >successfully create gas that can be used to drive gas >turbines, provide thrust as a monopropellant, provide >an oxidizer for bi-propellant engines, or function as an >igniter for a rocket engine when combined with fuels >like kerosene," said Lorier. They claim to have used a small hot gas generator as an igniter for a conventional liquid-liquid combustion chamber. They imply one of the liquids was peroxide, but they don't actually say it. -R -- "...And the last thing I remember is asking, 'What could go wrong?'" _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
