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Design & Analysis of a 500 LBF Liquid Oxygen and Liquid Methane Rocket Engine

Vargas Franco, Daniel.   The University of Texas at El Paso ProQuest Dissertations Publishing,  2017. 10743689.

Resumen (reseña)

The rapid growth in demand for spacecraft technologies has spawned a need for a variety of new and innovative research. The utilization of liquid oxygen (LOX) and liquid methane (LCH4) in rocket engines have played an important role in space exploration efforts to promote missions to Mars with in-situ resource utilization for propellant production. This will allow the production of fuel needed to come back to Earth making the overall mission more cost effective by enabling larger usable mass.

The Center for Space Exploration and Technology Research has focused its efforts to developing Liquid Oxygen (LOX) and Liquid Methane (LCH4) propulsion technologies. The goal is to design, build, and test a 500 lbf throattleable (4:1) liquid oxygen and liquid methane rocket engine. Many iterations of this engine were developed taking into consideration many variables that are present in the design of rocket engines such as combustion instabilities, oscillatory combustion, stress, pressure, and fatigue. This thesis describes the design process, analysis, and decision making behind the design changes of this engine and plans for future development. It will be designed, built, and tested by cSETR. The end goal of CROME is to be the main propulsion engine for Daedalus suborbital flight vehicle and fire in space to obtain performance data of this propellant combination.

Indexación (detalles)


Materia
Mechanical engineering
Clasificación
0548: Mechanical engineering
Identificador / palabra clave
Applied sciences
Título
Design & Analysis of a 500 LBF Liquid Oxygen and Liquid Methane Rocket Engine
Autor
Vargas Franco, Daniel
Número de páginas
75
Fecha de titulación
2017
Código de institución
0459
Fuente
MAI 57/04M(E), Masters Abstracts International
Lugar de publicación
Ann Arbor
País de publicación
United States
ISBN
978-0-355-60468-9
Tutor
Choudhuri, Ahsan; Chessa, Jack
Miembro del comité
Chessa, Jack; Choudhuri, Ahsan; Contreras, Luis R.
Universidad/institución
The University of Texas at El Paso
Departamento
Engineering
Lugar de la universidad
United States -- Texas
Título universitario
M.S.
Tipo de fuente
Tesis doctoral o tesina
Idioma
Inglés
Tipo de documento
Dissertation/Thesis
Número de tesis doctoral/tesina
10743689
ID del documento de ProQuest
2014469298
Copyright
Database copyright ProQuest LLC; ProQuest does not claim copyright in the individual underlying works.
Document URL
https://www.proquest.com/unauthdocview/2014469298