Characterisation and thrust measurements from electrolytic decomposition of Ammonium Dinitramide (ADN) based liquid monopropellant FLP-103 in MEMS thrusters

RAHMAN, Asad, CHIN, Jitkai, KAZI KABIR, Feroz and HUNG, Yew Mun (2017). Characterisation and thrust measurements from electrolytic decomposition of Ammonium Dinitramide (ADN) based liquid monopropellant FLP-103 in MEMS thrusters. Chinese Journal of Chemical Engineering.

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Abstract

Although Ammonium Dinitramide (ADN) has been targeted as a potential green monopropellant in future space vehicles, its application potential in Micro-electrical-Mechanical System (MEMS) thrusters or microthrusters have seldom reported in open literature. In this paper, electrolytic decomposition of Ammonium dinitramide (ADN)-based liquid monopropellant FLP-103 were carried out in open chamber and MEMS thrusters fabricated from Poly-Dimethylsiloxane (PDMS) to characterize the power consumption. Two thrust measurement methods were employed to investigate the electrolytic decomposition of FLP-103 in MEMS microthrusters. The results show that the monopropellant can be successfully ignited at room temperature through 80V,0.1A (8W) using copper wire as electrodes. In the current thruster design, low thrust was obtained at FLP-103 flowrate of 40µl/min but it generated the highest specific impulse, Isp, among all the flowrates tested. The experiments successfully demonstrated the potential application of electrolytic decomposition of FLP-103 in MEMS thrusters.

Item Type: Article
Departments - Does NOT include content added after October 2018: Faculty of Science, Technology and Arts > Department of Engineering and Mathematics
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cjche.2017.09.016
Depositing User: Feroz Kabir
Date Deposited: 22 Nov 2017 17:08
Last Modified: 18 Mar 2021 05:27
URI: https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/17256

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