Re: regenerative cooling with peroxide
John Carmack <[email protected]>
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At 09:43 AM 1/25/2004 -0800, you wrote: >On Sun, 2004-01-25 at 08:50, Bill Clawson wrote: > > Am I right in thinking you'ld want to do a nitrogen or > > similar gas purge of the cooling passages after engine > > cutoff? Shouldn't that prevent any remaining peroxide > > from decomposing in the cooling lines? > > Yes. However, that applies to just about any coolant. Purging is > a good >idea, and relatively easy to implement. > > -p We always run to propellant exhaustion and just let the tank purge through the engine. John Carmack