Operation of a gas generator controlled by supplying a gaseous oxidizer

The possibility of arranging a gas generator with the heat-release process being controlled by supplying a gaseous oxidizer is experimentally checked. Gaseous hydrogen, liquid gasoline, and solid hexamethylene tetramine (solidified alcohol) is used as a fuel. The gas generator with a proposed configuration is demonstrated to ensure stable operation during combustion of various fuels; the pressure in the gas-generator combustion chamber does not exceed the pressure of oxidizer supply and clearly correlates with variations of the oxidizer mass flow. Quasi-steady calculations allow determining all parameters of the process, including those that are not measured in the experiment. In particular, the temperature of combustion products is found to be 600–1900 K, and the gas generator forms a high-temperature mixture containing a non-reacted fuel (the air-to-fuel ratio is α = 0.55–2.30). __________ Translated from Fizika Goreniya i Vzryva, Vol. 44, No. 6, pp. 18–25, November–December, 2008.