B.T.C. Zandbergen
Delft University of Technology
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49th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference | 2013
Tobias Knop; B.T.C. Zandbergen; A. Cervone; Ralph Huijsman; Stefan Powell; Robert Werner; Johannes Ehlen; Felix Lindemann; Jeroen Wink; Christoph Becker; Kapeel Samarawickrama
The low regression rate of plastic hybrid rocket fuels drives combustion chamber designs towards long and slender single-port options or multi-port geometries. Both options result in mass and geometry penalties for rocket applications with increasing system impulse, while maintaining short burn times. In order to make hybrid motors with single-port fuel grain geometries a viable option to power sounding rockets such as Delft Aerospace Rocket Engineering’s flagship project Stratos II, novel fuel combinations are investigated using an engineering approach. Eleven tests on sorbitol-based fuels were performed on a 1,000 Ns lab scale motor and evaluated to assess the effect of fuel additives such as paraffin wax and aluminum micro particles as well as the influence of swirl injection on specific impulse, fuel density, average regression rate and oxidizer-to-fuel ratio. Furthermore production, operations and safety aspects are addressed. A mixture of 80% sorbitol, 10% paraffin wax and 10% aluminum micro particles by mass in combination with a 15◦ swirl injection angle is found to meet the fuel requirements to power Stratos II.
Acta Astronautica | 2013
Eberhard Gill; Prem Sundaramoorthy; J. Bouwmeester; B.T.C. Zandbergen; R. Reinhard
IWSCFF 2010: 6th International Workshop on Satellite Constellation and Formation Flying, Taipei, Taiwan, 1-3 November 2010 | 2010
Eberhard Gill; Prem Sundaramoorthy; J. Bouwmeester; B.T.C. Zandbergen; R. Reinhard
51st AIAA/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference | 2015
Tobias Knop; Jeroen Wink; Ralph Huijsman; Robert Werner; Johannes Ehlen; Stefan Powell; B.T.C. Zandbergen; A. Cervone
63rd International Astronautical Congress 2012, IAC 2012, Naples, Italy, 1-5 October 2012, 7753-7760 | 2012
A. Cervone; B.T.C. Zandbergen; J. Guo; E. Gill; W.P.W. Wieling; F.T. Nardini; C.A.H. Schuurbiers
Proceedings of the 7th Annual Conference on Systems Engineering Research: CSER 2009, 20-23 April 2009, Loughborough University, UK | 2009
Christina L.O. Aas; B.T.C. Zandbergen; Rob J. Hamann; Eberhard Gill
Ceas Space Journal | 2017
A. Cervone; B.T.C. Zandbergen; Daduí C. Guerrieri; M. de Athayde Costa e Silva; I. Krusharev; H.W. van Zeijl
Acta Astronautica | 2015
A. Cervone; Alexandru Mancas; B.T.C. Zandbergen
Space propulsion | 2016
D. Cordeiro Guerrieri; M. de Athayde Costa e Silva; B.T.C. Zandbergen; A. Cervone
5th CEAS air and space conference | 2016
Angelo Cervone; B.T.C. Zandbergen; D. Cordeiro Guerrieri; Marsil A.C. Silva; H.W. van Zeijl