A method of reducing the visible flash caused from afterburning of a rocket motor by injecting a fire extinguishing a suppressant material into the exhaust gases from the rocket motor and injecting the fire extinguishing suppressant material near the exhaust end of the rocket motor nozzle and about an internal periphery of the exhaust nozzle. An effective fire extinguisher suppressant includes fluoro halogenated carbon compounds and specifically CBrF3. (Author)
Afterburning Reduction
1985
6 pages
Report
No indication
English
Government Inventions for Licensing , Rocket Engines & Motors , Patent applications , Afterburning , Fire suppression , Rocket engines , Exhaust gases , Fire extinguishers , Rocket nozzles , Reduction , Exhaust nozzles , Flashes , Visible spectra , Fire extinguishing agents , Rocket exhaust , Halogen compounds , Carbon compounds , Bromine compounds , Fluorine compounds
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