FAMILY OF MODIFIABLE HIGH PERFORMANCE ELECTRICALLY CONTROLLED PROPELLANTS AND EXPLOSIVES

摘要

A composition capable of producing either solid propellant grains, liquid orgel monopropellants, all of which areelectrically ignitable and capable of sustained controllable combustion atambient pressure. Additional compositions capable ofsustained controllable combustion at elevated pressures are described.Applications for the compositions disclosed herein arepro-vided, and include among other applications use in small micro thrusters,large core-burning solid propellant gains, shapedexplosives charges for military application, and pumpable liquids and gelmonopropellants or explosives for military, commercialmin-ing or gas and oil recovery. In alternative embodiments the abovecompositions may also incorporate an energetic nitrate polymer,bum rate modifiers, and/or metal fuel(s). The HIPEP formulation makes itpossible to ignite and sustain combustion at ambientand vacuum conditions (a) without continuous electrical power and (b) whileproviding faster bum rates.