Combustion independent from ambient air
AssigneeErno Raumfahrtechnik GmbH
InventorClaus Cohrt
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Abstract
A drive aggregate is operated independently from the availability of external air, by using a fuel being composed of a blend of hydrocarbons and metal, e.g. lithium hydrides in a pasty, pumpable, i.e., fluidized, condition, and a metal chlorate, e.g., lithium chlorate or metal perchlorate is used as an oxidizer, having been rendered fluid in a high concentration by the addition of water so that the oxidizer, when decomposing, yields oxygen which combines with hydrogen released from the fuel. Reaction products remain, or are pumped into the tanks or into the ambient sea.
Claims10
Method of operating an underwater drive aggregate, independently from the availability of external air, while only condensible and/or water soluble reaction products obtain, comprising the steps of:
- using a fuel being composed of a blend of hydrocarbons and metal hydrides in a pasty, pumpable, i.e., fluidized condition for obtaining easy flowing of fuel;
- using metal chlorate or metal perchlorate as oxidizer, having been rendered fluid in a high concentration by the addition of water so that the oxidizer, when decomposing, yields oxygen which combines with hydrogen released from the fuel.
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