How to Design, Build and Test Small Liquid-Fuel Rocket Engines
A liquid rocket engine employs liquid propellants which are fed under pressure from tanks into a combustion chamber. The propellants usually consist of a liquid oxidizer and a liquid fuel. In the combustion chamber the propellants chemically react (burn) to form hot gases which are then accelerated and ejected at high velocity through a nozzle, thereby imparting momentum to the engine. Liquid rocket engines can burn a variety of oxidizer and fuel combinations.
With proper design, careful workmanship, and good test equipment operating in a safe manner, the amateur can build small liquid-fuel rocket engines which will have hours of safe operating life
This book comprises detailed niceties in following areas:
- INTRODUCTION
- PROPELLANT CHOICE
- PROPELLANT PROPERTIES
- DESIGN EQUATIONS
- Nozzle
- Combustion Chamber
- Chamber Wall Thickness
- Engine Cooling
- Heat Transfer
- Materials
- Injectors
- EXAMPLE DESIGN CALCULATION
- Design
- FABRICATION
- TESTING EQUIPMENT
- Feed System
- Feed System Components
- TEST STAND
- SAFETY EQUIPMENT
- ENGINE CHECK-OUT AND CALIBRA
- IGNITION AND OPERATION
- THE LAW
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- LIST OF SUPPLIERS
- CONVERSION FACTORS
- ADDITIONAL ONLINE RESOURCES
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