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MURRAY, Kentucky USA — A new book, EXPERIMENTAL COMPOSITE PROPELLANT, on creating composite rocket propellant has been released by Terry McCreary of Murray, Kentucky. The book focuses on the design and construction of motors based on AP/PBAN formulations, including procedures for hand mixing without the need of vacuum equipment.
The book is priced at $39 plus shipping and covers 243 pages with over 80 figures and tables.
EXPERIMENTAL COMPOSITE PROPELLANT includes: - Safety info
- Motor operation, grain design, and the commonly used technical terms: area ratio, thrust coefficient, burn rate exponent, burn rate coefficient, etc.
- Simple formulations based on AP/PBAN; just four ingredients can make a propellant as powerful as commercial ones
- Simple propellant that does not require magnesium, aluminum, or burn rate catalyst
- Density, burn rate coefficient and exponent, and delivered specific impulse results for four TESTED propellants
- Simple procedures for hand-mixing and processing of propellant WITHOUT vacuum
- Vacuum procedures for the advanced experimenter.
- Design of small motors (HPR size).
- Construction procedure for single-use static test motors and flight motors
- Description of both commercial and homemade reloadable motors, including machining procedure for forward closures, nozzles, and casings
- Igniter construction
- Details on an electronic thrust stand for data collection from your motors
- The latest version (2.0) of ProPel for routine batch, ballistic, density, motor simulation, and other calculations (Excel or Quattro Pro required)
- Directions for using PROPEP for propellant characterization.
- An entire section on basic composite propellant chemistry, including explanation and cure calculations for both PBAN and HTPB polymers
- Mixing and vacuum procedure for HTPB propellant.
- Information on popular binders, curatives and additives; TDI, MDI, HDI, IPDI, DDI, R45, R20, DER331, plasticizers, crosslinking agents, cure catalysts, burn rate catalysts, thermic agents.
- Description and use of an alternative, readily-available, lower-viscosity curative for PBAN
- Results of PROPEP runs for the tested formulations
- Annotated bibliography
- A few opinionated essays by various individuals.
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