NDLI: ETC Ignition Research on 120 mm Gun in Korea

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Seong Ho Kim Kyung Seung Yang Young Hyun Lee Jin Sung Kim Byung Ha Lee
Copyright Year	2008
Description	Author affiliation: Agency for Defense Dev., Daejeon (Seong Ho Kim; Kyung Seung Yang; Young Hyun Lee; Jin Sung Kim; Byung Ha Lee)
Abstract	An electrothermal-chemical (ETC) propulsion with the control of a combustion process yet requires large electrical energies for an appreciable effect. Referring to the changed tendency of focusing ETC researches on the early ignition phase, ADD (Agency for Defense Development), Korea has been studying an electrothermal ignition for a 120 mm gun using a capillary plasma injector. Under the condition of a limited capillary geometry, design efforts with various liner materials have been done to achieve robust capillary discharges capable of transferring energies around 100 kJ. Electrical properties were estimated with the help of plasma theories and compared with experimental results. Experiments using a closed vessel and a gun chamber simulator have been done to investigate the burning behaviors and the early phase of an electrothermal ignition, respectively. The closed vessel was designed for both a plasma and a conventional ignition. The burning rates could be obtained up to 70 MPa. The gun chamber simulator was designed in the shape of the chamber of a 120 mm gun except for an acrylic chamber wall withstanding up to 30 MPa. Through prior tests using the closed vessel and the gun chamber simulator appropriate electrical energies and propellant have been selected. Firings of the full-scale 120 mm gun have been done using JA2 propellant. Electrical pulses of 1 - 2.5 ms duration in the energy from 20 kJ to 120 kJ were applied. Besides an ignition capability, the results showed a possibility of a control on the peak pressure. Currently, ADD, Korea continues the research to enhance the efficiency of the plasma injector, to compact the pulse forming network, and to investigate the electrothermal ignition properties of LOVA propellant.
Starting Page	1
Ending Page	6
File Size	552875
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424418329
DOI	10.1109/ELT.2008.37
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2008-06-10
Publisher Place	Canada
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Firing Discharges Ignition Propulsion Plasmas Electron tubes Delay
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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