Re: regenerative cooling with peroxide

John Carmack <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.technology.erps
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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
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