Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Hypergolic liquid or gel fuel mixtures
- Patent Title (中): 高压液体或凝胶燃料混合物
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Application No.: US13189874Application Date: 2011-07-25
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Publication No.: US08435364B2Publication Date: 2013-05-07
- Inventor: William H. Stevenson, III , LaShanda D. Felton , Zhu Slocum-Wang
- Applicant: William H. Stevenson, III , LaShanda D. Felton , Zhu Slocum-Wang
- Applicant Address: US DC Washington
- Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
- Current Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
- Current Assignee Address: US DC Washington
- Agent William B. Haymond
- Main IPC: C06B23/00
- IPC: C06B23/00

Abstract:
Hypergolic liquid or gel fuel mixtures utilized in bipropellant propulsion systems are disclosed as replacements for fuels containing toxic monomethylhydrazine. The fuel mixtures include one or more amine azides mixed with one or more tertiary diamine, tri-amine or tetra-amine compounds. The fuel mixtures include N,N,N′,N′-tetramethylethylenediamine (TMEDA) mixed with 2-N,N-dimethylaminoethylazide (DMAZ), TMEDA mixed with tris(2-azidoethyl)amine (TAEA), and TMEDA mixed with one or more cyclic amine azides. Each hypergolic fuel mixture provides a reduced ignition delay for combining with an oxidant in fuel propellant systems. The fuel mixtures have advantages in reduced ignition delay times compared to ignition delay times for each unmixed component, providing a synergistic effect which was not predictable from review of each component's composition. Additional fuel mixtures include various tertiary diamine, tertiary tri-amine or tetra-amine compounds combined with one or more amine azides or imidic amide compounds, to provide clean burning, high performing, and non-toxic fuels.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110272071A1 Hypergolic Liquid Or Gel Fuel Mixtures Public/Granted day:2011-11-10
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