Innovative Energetic Materials: Properties, Combustion Performance and Application
Monography
Language |
Английский |
Type |
Monography |
ISBN |
9789811548314 |
Pages count |
547 |
In recent years, significant advancements have been made in the exploitation, combustion, ignition, and application of innovative energetic materials, including solid fuels, energetic binders, metal particles, energetic composites, etc. One of the main reasons for utilizing innovative energetic materials and their composites in
various chemical propulsion systems is due to the high heat of formation and high energy density. Although innovative energetic materials have the very attractive feature of producing high energy in their combustion processes, their ignition and efficient combustion presents a great challenge to many engineers and scientists.
Various techniques have recently been developed to overcome the intrinsic difficulties. Many fundamental research investigations have also been conducted to explore detailed physicochemical processes associated with innovative energetic materials combustion and industry application. Propellants, explosives, and pyrotechnics, which are grouped as high-energy materials (HEMs) or innovative energetic materials (IEMs) have made a significant contribution to modern industry and economy. In particular, state-of-the-art rocket propulsion systems have greatly benefited from innovative energetic materials development in recent years, especially
in terms of future prospective energetic materials for rocket fuels and fabrication of propellants, explosives, and pyrotechnics. The organization of this book was initiated in early 2018, and the outline was first reviewed and discussed by four co-editors and several Springer press editors, who provided invaluable suggestions
which are greatly appreciated. This book is organized as a milestone of advanced research on energetic materials as used in chemical rocket propulsion technologies. The book presents compiled results of the most recent development of innovative energetic materials and combustion, especially applications technology in
chemical rocket propulsion systems. On the one hand, considerable effort is being spent on the improvement and perfecting of the propulsion systems themselves which are designed exclusively for the ingredients they work with. On the other hand, the research for new ingredients for rocket propulsion is a challenge for chemistry. This effort focuses on the design and investigation of novel high-tech energetic materials for fuels, oxidizers, polymer matrices, plasticizers, and further additives for liquid, solid, gelled, and hybrid propellant systems. In recent years, for energetic materials ingredients for chemical propellants, great progress has been made in the development of propellants for rockets, guns, and mortars. Similar milestones were reached in the field of explosives and pyrotechnics which are essential parts of any system that uses propellants and explosives. Many major
breakthroughs in the field of propellants, explosives, and pyrotechnics using high-energy materials (HEMs) were possible in recent years. This development area particularly concerns the energetic ingredient families that are known to be toxic or harmful and also the conventional non-energetic ingredients that need to be
replaced to achieve more energy, safe and environment friendly. Despite the impressive progress witnessed in the field of HEMs during the last century, it must be admitted that the rate of progress is much slower when compared to other fields such as polymer chemistry, electronics, and computers owing to a number of constraints and restrictions that an HEMs scientist has to encounter in developing a new HEM. These include safety, stability (thermal, mechanical, storage, etc.), cost, and other considerations. This book with 17 chapters summarizes the most recent achievements of the leading research groups working in the field of innovative energetic materials,
combustion, and application in chemical rocket propulsion in Russia, UK, Italy, Japan, Israel, Poland, Hong Kong, India, Belgium, Kazakhstan, Morocco, Algeria, and China.