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AssigneeNederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNO
InventorsLaurens Daniël Van Vliet, Michiel Hannes Straathof, Jeichienus Johannes Van Der Werff
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A propulsion element including a catalyzing reactor is disclosed. The catalyzing reactor comprises a reactor entrance and a reactor exit and an internal structure arranged for flowing a reacting medium through the reactor from the reactor entrance to the reactor exit. The reactor structure comprising at least one thin walled reactor channel arranged between the entrance and the exit of the reactor. The channel having a channel wall that includes a catalyst and that defines a flow path, in which channel in use, a catalyzed exothermic reaction takes place in the medium as it flows along the flow path. The at least one channel is looped to have a portion of its flow path that is downstream with respect to the reactor entrance in heat exchanging contact with a portion of a flow path that is that is more upstream with respect to the reactor entrance, so as to transfer heat between a downstream portion of the reacting medium to an upstream portion thereof.
A propulsion element including a catalyzing reactor, the catalyzing reactor having a reactor entrance, a reactor exit, and an internal structure configured for flowing a reacting medium from the reactor entrance to the reactor exit, the internal structure comprising at least one reactor channel having a channel wall that includes a catalyst for catalyzing a reaction of the reacting medium,
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