Progress and challenges in exploration of powder fueled ramjets

S Luo, Y Feng, J Song, D Xu, K Xia - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
The powder fueled ramjet is a developing propulsion system, which makes use of metal
powder as the propellant and presents noticeable advantages, for instance, high specific …

[PDF][PDF] Particle-resolved optical diagnostics of solid fuel combustion for clean power generation: a review

T Li, C Geschwindner, A Dreizler, B Böhm - Meas. Sci. Technol., 2023 - researchgate.net
Chemical energy carriers are crucial for addressing challenges that arise from time lag,
large distances, and temporal fluctuations in renewable energy production, which lead to …

A detailed study on the micro-explosion of burning iron particles in hot oxidizing environments

J Huang, S Li, D Sanned, L Xu, S Xu, Q Wang… - Combustion and …, 2022 - Elsevier
As a promising carbon-free fuel, iron powder can directly combust with air and has great
potential to provide clean and high-grad heat for various applications. The combustion …

Progress towards nanoengineered energetic materials

RA Yetter - Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2021 - Elsevier
Given the constraints on typical bond energies and the commonality of final products
produced from combustion of Csingle bondHsingle bondNsingle bond O based energetic …

[HTML][HTML] Experimental and theoretical study of single iron particle combustion under low-oxygen dilution conditions

D Ning, T Hazenberg, Y Shoshin, JA van Oijen… - Fuel, 2024 - Elsevier
In the present study, a novel in situ particle sizing approach is proposed and used to
measure the characteristic timescales of micron-sized iron particle combustion under low …

Incorporation of high explosives into nano-aluminum based microspheres to improve reactivity

C Huang, Z Yang, Y Li, B Zheng, Q Yan, L Guan… - Chemical Engineering …, 2020 - Elsevier
Nano-aluminum, as a potential replacement of micro-aluminum, has attracted significant
research interests in energetic fields due to its high reactivity. However, the intrinsic high …

Atomistic insight into the microexplosion-accelerated oxidation process of molten aluminum nanoparticles

G Li, L Niu, W Hao, Y Liu, C Zhang - Combustion and Flame, 2020 - Elsevier
Aluminum particle is a metal fuel applied the most frequently in energetic formulations; thus,
it is fundamental to clarify its oxidation or combustion mechanism to make them work more …

Facile solvent evaporation synthesis of core-shell structured Al@ PVDF nanoparticles with excellent corrosion resistance and combustion properties

J Ji, L Liang, H Xu, G Xiang, H Li, P Li, X Zhou… - Combustion and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Nanothermites with fluoropolymer are popular among researchers due to their excellent
combustion performance. Polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) is a kind of typical fluoropolymer …

Ignition and combustion of Al and ammonium perchlorate-coated Al particles in a double oxidizing air–H2O–Ar atmosphere

P Xu, J Liu, X Dong, W Zhang, Y Yang, W Yang - Combustion and Flame, 2023 - Elsevier
Aluminum is a promising energy-containing material that can satisfy both aerospace and
underwater thermodynamic propulsion systems. A high-temperature pressurized …

µAl-based reactive materials with improved energy efficiency by using the fluorine-containing oxidizer perfluoropolyether as an interfacial layer

C Wu, J Nie, S Li, Q Jiao, D Wang, X Guo - Combustion and Flame, 2023 - Elsevier
To enhance the reactivity of micro-sized aluminum (µAl) particles in the energetic materials,
the fluorine-containing oxidizer perfluoropolyether (PFPE) was chosen as an interfacial layer …