Yong-Gahp Chung

Design of Compressed Gas Supply System for Combustion Chamber Test Facility

To develop liquid propulsion engine, the development of combustion chamber must be preceded. For performance validation of the combustion chamber, the designed and manufactured combustion chamber should be tested in combustion chamber test facility (CCTF). The CCTF is the test facility to develop the combustor of rocket engine, which uses liquid oxygen as a oxidizer and kerosene as a fuel. Present paper introduces the detailed design results of compressed gas supply system of CCTF, which is planned to be installed at Naro Space Center.

Modeling and Simulation of Combustion Chamber Test Facility Oxidizer Supply System

․ Namkyung Cho* ․ Yeoung-Min Han**ABSTRACT The propulsion system of space launch vehicle generates thrus t by supplying oxidizer and fuel to combustion chamber. KSLV-II 2nd stage engine, currently under d evelopment by KARI, is to use liquid oxygen as a oxidizer and JET-A1 as a fuel. The 2nd stage pump-fed engine is mainly composed of combustion chamber, turbo-pump and engine supply system. To develop liquid propulsion engine, the development of combustion chamber must be preceded. For per formance validation of the combustion chamber, the designed and manufactured combustion ch amber should be tested in combustion chamber test facility (CCTF). The detailed design fo r the planned CCTF in Naro Space Center was conducted. The oxidizer supply system modeling using AMESim was performed based on the results of the detailed design, and the oxidizer supply cha racteristics was analyzed in this paper.초 록 발사체의 추진기관은 일반적으로 산화제와 연료를 연소실로 공급하여 추진력을 얻게 된다. 개발 중에 있는 한국형 발사체(KSLV-II) 2단 엔진의 경우 산화제로는 액체산소(Liquid Oxygen)를 사용하고 연료로는 JET-A1이 사용될 예정이다. 터보펌프 공급방식인 2단 엔진의 주요 구성은 연소기와 터보펌프, 엔진공급시스템 등으로 구성되어 있다. 액체 추진 엔진 개발을 위해서는 서브시스템인 연소기 개발이 선행되어야 하고 설계 및 제작된 연소기의 성능 검증은 연소기 연소시험설비(CCTF)에서 수행된다. 우주센터에 구축 예정인 연소기 연소시험설비에 대한 상세설계가 수행되었으며, 본 설계 결과를 기준으로 AMESim을 사용하여 산화제공급시스템에 대한 모델링을 수행하여 산화제 공급특성을 해석하였다.Key Words: Combustion Chamber Test Facility(CCTF, 연소기연소시험설비), Oxidizer(산화제), Supply System(공급시스템), Hydraulic and Pneumatic(유공압), AMESim(아메심)

Certification Test Result of After-burner Test Facility for Gas-generator of 75 tonf Class Liquid Rocket Engine

After-burner test facility for gas generators of 75 tonf class liquid rocket engines was designed, which was verified by the facility certification test of the Combustion Chamber Test Facility(CCTF). The purpose of the certification test of the after-burner test facility is to verify the combustion stability of gas torches equipped in the gas generator and the after-burner test facility by using methane and oxygen gases. In the case of the autonomous test, the supply system provided steadily methane and oxygen gases to the after-burner system without pressure drop. The combustion pressure of the gas torch approached the design requirement. In the case of the coupled test, the gas generator ignition and the fuel-rich exhaust gas combustion were successfully carried out, leading to the verification of the test facility.

Investigation on Temperature Drop during Pressurant Discharging from Pressurant Tank of Liquid Rocket Propulsion System (II)

Propellant pressurization system in liquid rocket propulsion system plays a role supplying pressurant gas at a controlled pressure into the ullage space of propellant tanks. The most important design parameter for such propellant pressurization system is the temperature of pressurant gas fed from pressurant tank. Such pressurant is gaseous state, of which density is very sensitive to the temperature of pressurant. Generally for the propulsion system, which requires high thrust and is consisted of cryogenic propellant the pressurant is stored at high density and high pressure to reduce the weight of pressurant tanks, which are placed inside of cryogenic propellant tank. That is called cryogenic storage pressurization system. This study investigates the temperature variation of pressurant at the time when the pressurant is coming out of pressurant tank experimentally as well as numerically. Fluids used in this study are air and liquid oxygen as outer fluid and gaseous nitrogen and gaseous helium as pressurant respectively.

Performance Prediction of Rocket Engine Combustion and Estimation of Experimental Results

A model for depicting the rocket engine combustion process is presented and several experiments near a design point are provided with a FOOF type of unlike impinging injector for a propellant combination of Jet A-1 fuel and liquid-oxygen. The model is based on the assumption that the vaporization is the rate-controlling combustion process. The effects of initial drop size and initial drop velocity are systematically shown and discussed. It is seen that in the midst of considered parameters the change of initial drop size is more sensitive to the performance. The proposed model describes qualitative trends of combustion process well despite of its simplicity