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Bihili
12-08-2014, 07:59 AM
I did not know hydrogen peroxide was considered a fuel.

http://www.mooregoodink.com/news/quarter-mile-world-record-for-drag-bicycle-207mph-in-fewer-than-4-8-seconds/

chevynut
12-08-2014, 01:11 PM
IT's been used in rockets for a long time.

http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Hydrogen_Peroxide_as_Fuel

chevynut
12-08-2014, 01:17 PM
Interesting stuff....

Propellant

For more details on this topic, see High-test peroxide (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-test_peroxide).
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Rocket_Belt_Propulsion.svg/200px-Rocket_Belt_Propulsion.svg.png (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rocket_Belt_Propulsion.svg) Rocket Belt hydrogen peroxide propulsion system used in a jet pack (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_pack)


High concentration H2O2 is referred to as High Test Peroxide (HTP). It can be used either as a monopropellant (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopropellant) (not mixed with fuel) or as the oxidizer component of a bipropellant rocket (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipropellant_rocket). Use as a monopropellant takes advantage of the decomposition of 70–98+% concentration hydrogen peroxide into steam and oxygen. The propellant is pumped into a reaction chamber where a catalyst, usually a silver or platinum screen, triggers decomposition, producing steam at over 600 °C (1,112 °F), which is expelled through a nozzle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nozzle), generating thrust (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrust). H2O2 monopropellant produces a maximum specific impulse (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_impulse) (Isp) of 161 s (1.6 kN·s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton-second)/kg), which makes it a low-performance monopropellant. Peroxide generates much less thrust than hydrazine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrazine). The Bell Rocket Belt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Rocket_Belt) used hydrogen peroxide monopropellant.
As a bipropellant H2O2 is decomposed to burn a fuel as an oxidizer. Specific impulses as high as 350 s (3.5 kN·s/kg) can be achieved, depending on the fuel. Peroxide used as an oxidizer gives a somewhat lower Isp than liquid oxygen, but is dense, storable, noncryogenic and can be more easily used to drive gas turbines to give high pressures using an efficient closed cycle. It can also be used for regenerative cooling of rocket engines. Peroxide was used very successfully as an oxidizer in World War II German rocket motors (e.g. T-Stoff (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-Stoff), containing oxyquinoline stabilizer, for the Me 163 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_163)B), most often used with C-Stoff (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-Stoff) in a self-igniting hypergolic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypergolic) combination, and for the low-cost British Black Knight (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Knight_%28rocket%29) and Black Arrow (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Arrow) launchers.
In the 1940s and 1950s, the Walter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellmuth_Walter) turbine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_turbine) used hydrogen peroxide for use in submarines (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine) while submerged; it was found to be too noisy and require too much maintenance compared to diesel-electric (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine#Propulsion) power systems. Some torpedoes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torpedo) used hydrogen peroxide as oxidizer or propellant, but this was dangerous and has been discontinued by most navies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navy). Hydrogen peroxide leaks were blamed for the sinkings of HMS Sidon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Sidon_%28P259%29) and the Russian submarine Kursk (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_submarine_Kursk). It was discovered, for example, by the Japanese Navy in torpedo trials, that the concentration of H2O2 in right-angle bends in HTP pipework can often lead to explosions in submarines and torpedoes. SAAB Underwater Systems is manufacturing the Torpedo 2000. This torpedo, used by the Swedish navy, is powered by a piston engine propelled by HTP as an oxidizer and kerosene (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerosene) as a fuel in a bipropellant system.[49] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_peroxide#cite_note-49)[50] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_peroxide#cite_note-50)
While rarely used now as a monopropellant for large engines, small hydrogen peroxide attitude control (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attitude_control) thrusters (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_engine) are still in use on some satellites (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite). They are easy to throttle, and safer to fuel and handle before launch than hydrazine thrusters. However, hydrazine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrazine) is more often used in spacecraft because of its higher specific impulse (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_impulse) and lower rate of decomposition.

Rick_L
12-08-2014, 07:39 PM
Just think what you could do with a couple of H2O2 rocket motors mounted below the rear bumper! Or a 56 with rocket motor nozzles tucked behind some disappearing taillights!