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- Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!agate!rsoft!mindlink!a752
- From: Bruce_Dunn@mindlink.bc.ca (Bruce Dunn)
- Subject: Re: Aluminum as Rocket Fuel?
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 05:53:56 GMT
- Message-ID: <19161@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Sender: news@deep.rsoft.bc.ca (Usenet)
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- > Karl Dishaw writes:
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- > --the injector plate is going to need an internal heater to keep the LAl
- > from solidifying as it passes through and to keep it clean for restarts.
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- I would think that the easiest configuration would be for the
- combusion chamber to thermally coupled to the tank of molten aluminum, with
- only enough of an intermediate flow passage to insert a valve. When the
- aluminum is melted in the tank, the fuel line, valve, and injector will all
- be heated to above the melting point of aluminum.
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- Bruce Dunn Vancouver, Canada Bruce_Dunn@mindlink.bc.ca
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