PROJECTS
Project Briefs
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Project provided consistent targeting of strategic missiles and conserving the supply of battle field weapons. (DTRA)
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Economically designed, assembled and operated a unique system to measure burn rates of micron sized aluminum and titanium particles.
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Laser generated Mie scattering established the size of individual burning particles.
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Efficient, fast codes were written to collect data (LabView) and process the data that were significantly faster (20x’s) than native MATLAB functions.
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Developed a NIST traceable protocol to deduce time-resolved (microseconds), burning particle temperatures.
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First combustion synthesis of nano-crystalline silicon carbide powders for car engines using cheap starting materials.
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Smoke formation in jet engines controlled through electric fields or ionic additives. Smoke reduced in jet engines.
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Established the absolute ion concentration profiles in the standard flame (acetylene-oxygen).
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Major contributor (rates & thermodynamic properties) to the Ionic Model of soot formation.
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Air Force utilized fuel mixture rules to forgo $10,000/day engine tests with alternate fuel sources.
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Established a process boron for use as a solid rocket fuel. Boron is a nearly ideal fuel for rockets.
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Oxidizer and binder data supported the viability of even 20 yr old tactical rocket engines using RDX as the oxidizer. (Air Force)
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First room temperature measurements of RDX, BTTN and AP decomposition rates for propellants.
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Size exclusion chromatograph measured effects of propellant decomposition gases on polymer binder molecular weight distributions.
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Professional writing and editing of SOPs, over 75 to date, for laboratory procedures, analyses and handling of dangerous chemicals.