Evaluation of energetic potential of some tetrazine oxides as components of gun propellants. I. Two-component compositions

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Thermodynamic evaluation of the possibility of using furazanotetrazine dioxide and tetrazinotetrazine tetroxide in two-component compositions with different binders as gun propellants has been carried out. Such compositions allow very high force values, 1750 kJ/kg or more. But this is achieved at the cost of extremely high temperature of combustion products, above 5000 K, which is completely unacceptable for barrel systems. By increasing the binder content it is possible to reduce the temperature of gases to an acceptable level. However, the inevitable drop of force allows to consider such compositions only as mortar propellants, and for other systems the obtained compositions do not exceed the known ones in efficiency.

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A. M. Astakhov

Reshetnev Siberian State University of Science and Technology

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Russian Federation, Krasnoyarsk

D. B. Lempert

Federal Research Center of Problems of Chemical Physics and Medicinal Chemistry, Russian Academy of Science

Email: alexastachov@mail.ru
Russian Federation, Chernogolovka

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3. Fig. 1. Calculated relationship between the powder force f and the temperature of the powder gases Tc at a pressure of 100 MPa for compositions based on FTDO (solid lines) and TTTO (dashed lines) with binders based on nitrocellulose: 1 – pyroxylin (N14.1%), 2 – collodion (N12.0%), 3 – ballistic powder NB. In this and subsequent figures, markers indicate literary data for some standard and experimental foreign (♦) and domestic (●) powders [34–37].

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4. Fig. 2. Calculated relationship between the powder force f and the temperature of the powder gases Tc at pressures of 100, 300 and 500 MPa for compositions based on FTDO (solid curves) and TTTO (dashed curves) with a hydrocarbon binder.

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5. Fig. 3. Calculated relationship between the powder force f and the temperature of the powder gases Tc at pressures of 100, 300 and 500 MPa for compositions based on FTDO (solid curves) and TTTO (dashed curves) with an active binder.

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6. Fig. 4. Calculated relationship between the powder force f and the temperature of the powder gases Tc at pressures of 100, 300 and 500 MPa for compositions based on FTDO (solid curves) and TTTO (dashed curves) with glycidyl azide polymer.

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