Development trends in artillery ammunition propellants

• Autorzy: Szala Mateusz

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DOI

10.22211/matwys/0196

Warianty tytułu

PL

Analiza możliwości eliminacji nitrocelulozy z materiałów wybuchowych miotających

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

A short history of nitrocellulose (NC) use in propellants is discussed. The advantages and disadvantages of NC as a semi-synthetic component of powders and rocket propellants are presented. Based on the conventional classification of propellants, the options of eliminating nitrocellulose in different types of powders and rocket propellants are discussed in detail. The analysis shows that in the foreseeable future, the elimination of NC in single-base and double-base propellants is highly unlikely. The observed trends in triple-base propellant development also does not show any tendencies in the elimination of NC, only the replacement of nitroguanidine with cyclic nitroamines. However, the elimination of NC in LOVA composite propellants is probable. Synthetic, rubber-based solid composite rocket propellants, with ammonium perchlorate as the oxidizer, are the only ones not dependent on NC.

PL

Przedstawiono krótki rys historyczny stosowania nitrocelulozy (NC) w materiałach miotających. Przedyskutowano wady i zalety NC jako półsyntetycznego składnika prochów i paliw rakietowych. Następnie stosując klasyczny podział materiałów wybuchowych miotających szczegółowo przedyskutowano możliwości eliminacji nitrocelulozy z poszczególnych rodzajów prochów i paliw rakietowych. Na podstawie przeprowadzonych analiz zauważono, że w perspektywie najbliższych lat eliminacja NC z prochów jedno- i dwubazowych jest bardzo mało prawdopodobna. Obserwowane tendencje w rozwoju prochów trójbazowych również nie wskazują na eliminację NC a jedynie na zastępowanie nitroguanidyny za pomocą cyklicznych nitroamin. Prawdopodobna jest eliminacja NC z prochów kompozytowych typu LOVA. Jedynie stałe heterogeniczne paliwa rakietowe na bazie kauczuków syntetycznych oraz chloranu(VII) amonu, jako utleniacza, zostały uniezależnione od NC.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

nitrocellulose; energetic polymer; propellant; solid rocket propellant

PL

nitroceluloza; polimery energetyczne; materiał miotający; stałe paliwo rakietowe

• Wydawca: Sieć Badawcza Łukasiewicz - Instytut Przemysłu Organicznego
• Czasopismo: Materiały Wysokoenergetyczne
• Rocznik: 2020
• Tom: T. 12(2)
• Strony: 5--16
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 39 poz., rys., tab.

Twórcy

autor

Szala Mateusz

• Chemistry Institute, Military University of Technology, 2 gen. S. Kaliskiego Street, 00 – 908 Warsaw, Poland

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