- Author
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Blazowski, W. S.
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Cole, R. B.
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McAlevy, R. F., III
- Title
- Investigation of the Combustion Characteristics of Some Polymers With the Diffusion-Flame Technique. Technical Report.
- Coporate
- Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ
- Sponsor
- Office of Naval Research, Washington, DC
- Report
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ME-RT 71004,
June 1971,
190 p.
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Contract
- N0014-67-A-0202-0023
- Keywords
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diffusion flames
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ablation
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combustion
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composite propellants
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flammability
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heat of pyrolysis
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high temperature tests
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kinetics
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pyrolysis
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plastics
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solid propellants
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surface temperature
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thermal degradation
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regression rate
- Identifiers
- fuel binder; polymer burning; rapid heating experiment; surface pyrolysis
- Abstract
- A means for producing combustion of polymers under well-controlled conditions has been employed for study of their fundamental combustion characteristics. In the subject work, a planar diffusion flame is established between an axi-symmetric, "stagnation-point" flow of gaseous oxidant and the pyrolysis product vapors emerging from the polymer surface lying below. Surface regression rate, surface temperature, and oxidant mass flow rate (the principal control variable) were determined. Plexiglas, Plexiglas-55, polyethylene, polypropylene, Delrin, nylon 6-6, ICRPG polyurethane binder, and polystyrene were tested.