Russian scientists have successfully tested an environmentally friendly rocket engine – RIA Novosti

14:35 26.08.2016

(updated: 14:44 26.08.2016 )

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MOSCOW, August 26 – RIA Novosti Russian first successfully tested a detonation liquid rocket engine (LRE) next-generation clean fuel, according to the Foundation for advanced studies (FPI)

“.. Specialized laboratory “detonation LRE” created by FPI in 2014 on the basis of NPO “Energomash” – a leading Russian space industry, held the world’s first successful test of a full-size demonstrator detonation liquid rocket engine fuel paired oxygen-kerosene, “- said the fund .

The research work was carried out by scientists together with colleagues from the Novosibirsk Institute of hydrodynamics MALavrentiev Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Moscow aviation Institute.

As explained by the fund, Russia is the undisputed world leader in development and production of missile engines, but today the classic liquid rocket engines come close to its theoretical limit in terms of specific parameters. The idea of ​​using a detonation combustion mode is the most thermodynamically favorable way to fuel combustion, was first proposed by Soviet scientists in the middle of the last century, but in practice to implement this regime succeeded only now.

“The value the success of these tests for the advanced development of domestic engine can not be overestimated We went to this result for two years and, of course, satisfied them for rocket engines this kind of future.. “, – said the head of NGOs designer” Energomash “Vladimir Chvanov

currently, the work moved from. stage research and computational modeling stage firing tests. The results of the computational and theoretical work created three of the most promising option layout schemes demonstrators of new engines, theoretically capable of significantly outperform existing global developments on specific characteristics, said DRF.

“The results have a truly global significance and impresses with its unique we took up the challenge -. to prove the possibility to organize a detonation in an oxygen-kerosene rocket engines and we can now safely say that this is possible, and we know how to do it, but we are not going to stop.. progress and hope in the near future to provide practical confirmation of all other declared characteristics “, – said Deputy General Director Igor Denisov DRF

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