Antares e.V.
20 kN Testbed
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- Ignition Tests
- Fuel Ignition
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The fuel feed system: liquid laughing gas boils up at room temperature and 60 bar pressure and therefore it is fed into the burning chamber by its own pressure.
A single hole polyethylene block within the burning chamber. Alternatively we can run the engine with a seven holes block.
The burning chamber: it is designed for 100 bar pressure.
View of the testbed.
The injector: milled and drilled with highest precision on a 5 axis CNC milling machine. From 36 pairwise located 0.6 mm drilled holes the oxydyzer flows into the burning chamber. A small ignition chamber is located in the center. A Teflon insert bewares the walls of the 3000 degrees Celsius hot gases.
The electronic system: an embedded Linux system.
The nozzle: turned with a high precision CNC turning machine.
The nozzle mounting without its thermal isolation.