David Weinshenker wrote:
DW> And then there's what the Russians did in the RD-170 etc.: run all the oxygen DW> and a little bit of the fuel in a low-temperature oxygen-rich pre-burner, DW> heating the oxygen enough to boil it and spin the pump turbine before combining DW> it in the chamber with the rest of the fuel. (Just the opposite of the SSME, DW> with its fuel-rich preburner... In the SSME there are two pre-burners one for the LOX turbopump and one for the hydrogen pump. The LOX side runs oxygen-rich and the Hydrogen side runs fuel-rich. Hans Ulrich Ammann mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.spl.ch _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
