Experimental Study of Influence of the Gas Flux on Urotropine Gasification in the Low-Temperature Gas Generator

Abstract

The experimental study was carried out to investigate the gasification of urotropine (hexamethylenetetramine) in a low-temperature solid fuel gas generator under varying inlet gas flows. Nitrogen was applied as the filter gas. The filter gas flow was varied from 0.6 to 1.4 L/s with a step of 0.2 L/s. The inlet gas's initial temperature was equal to 910 K. It was shown that with an increase in the nitrogen flow, the fuel gasification time decreased. Increasing the flux of inlet nitrogen from 0.6 to 1.4 L/s results in an increase in the average urotropine gasification mass rate from 0.63 to 1.61 g/s. When the initial nitrogen flow is raised, the rate of fuel gasification increases almost linearly. Studies have demonstrated that the proportion of mass flows between urotropine gasification products and nitrogen remains constant regardless of the incoming gas flow. The mass flow ratio remains steady at approximately 0.9 g/g when the incoming gas flow is altered. It has been shown that the gaseous products of urotropine gasification consist of nitrogen with a small amount of hydrogen and hydrocarbons. The content of simple gaseous products does not exceed 4% vol.