Russian scientists have developed a new rocket fuel

Specialists of NPO "Energomash", Skolkovo resident company, developed a new fuel "acetyl", designed to improve the efficiency of rocket engines.

According to Anatoly Likhvantseva, director of the Center for innovation "Energomash", the new fuel is primarily intended for the upper stage. Produced effect in this case is the highest. For the new carrier rocket "Soyuz-2.1b" You can raise a lot of useful load, output in geostationary orbit, about 30% compared with the standard upper stage.

Application atsetama not only significantly increases the power of existing launch vehicles, but also gives a great savings. Ballistic calculations conducted by the Centre for innovation in collaboration with the Center of Keldysh showed that the carrier rocket "Soyuz-2.1b" replace oxygen-kerosene engine booster to oxygen atsetamovy can increase the payload mass to 30-40%.

When developed in recent years, the frequency of launches of satellites for the same weight, you can reduce the number of launch vehicles to 3-5 per year, and billions of rubles saving notes Likhvantsev.

Since the engines oxygen atsetamovom fuel close to the oxygen-kerosene, can be based on the existing Russian rockets to create a modernized aircraft with power capacity of carrier rockets with oxygen-hydrogen boosters, but easier to use and much less expensive cost launch services, developers believe.

In the next six months or a year the scientists plan to conduct a detailed analysis of the possibilities of using atsetama on boosters for other devices Russian "Proton", "Angara" and some others.

To the new fuel were also interested developers hypersonic aircraft, which for their projects a little lacking "energy", and acetyl, according to the developers of the new fuel can be the solution to this problem.

Currently, the Center developed at different stages for more than five projects: the addition of the oxygen-kerosene fuel additives based on polyisobutylene, the development of laser ignition, the development of design methods procuring production, the creation of a gas turbine plant in the interests of the oil and gas industry.

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