PULCHER
Pulsed Chemical Rocket with Green High Performance Propellants
| Coordinatore | SITAEL SPA
Organization address
address: VIA S SABINO 21 contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | Italy [IT] |
| Sito del progetto | http://www.alta-space.com/pulcher/ |
| Totale costo | 2˙600˙592 € |
| EC contributo | 1˙853˙667 € |
| Programma | FP7-SPACE
Specific Programme "Cooperation": Space |
| Code Call | FP7-SPACE-2012-1 |
| Funding Scheme | CP-FP |
| Anno di inizio | 2013 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2013-01-01 - 2015-12-31 |
Partecipanti
| # | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
SITAEL SPA
Organization address
address: VIA S SABINO 21 contact info |
IT (MOLA DI BARI) | coordinator | 0.00 |
| 2 |
ALTA SPA
Organization address
address: Via Allessandro Gherardesca 5 contact info |
IT (PISA) | participant | 721˙190.00 |
| 3 |
THALES ALENIA SPACE FRANCE
Organization address
city: TOULOUSE contact info |
FR (TOULOUSE) | participant | 357˙112.00 |
| 4 |
INSTYTUT LOTNICTWA
Organization address
address: KRAKOWSKA 110/114 contact info |
PL (WARSZAWA) | participant | 169˙999.50 |
| 5 |
"NATIONAL CENTER FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ""DEMOKRITOS"""
Organization address
address: Patriarchou Gregoriou Str. contact info |
EL (AGHIA PARASKEVI) | participant | 169˙313.00 |
| 6 |
UNIVERSITAET BREMEN
Organization address
address: Bibliothekstrasse 1 contact info |
DE (BREMEN) | participant | 150˙000.00 |
| 7 |
JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY
Organization address
address: JINDAIJI HIGASHI MACHI 7-44-1 contact info |
JP (TOKYO CHOFU SHI) | participant | 98˙552.25 |
| 8 |
BRADFORD ENGINEERING BV
Organization address
address: DE WIJPER 26 contact info |
NL (HEERLE) | participant | 87˙500.40 |
| 9 |
UNIVERSITA DI PISA
Organization address
address: Lungarno Pacinotti 43/44 contact info |
IT (PISA) | participant | 60˙000.00 |
| 10 |
MOOG INC CORPORATION
Organization address
address: SENECA STREET AND JAMISON ROAD contact info |
US (EAST AURORA NEW YORK) | participant | 40˙000.00 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
'PulCheR (Pulsed Chemical Rocket with Green High Performance Propellants) is a new propulsion concept in which the propellants are fed in the combustion chamber at low pressure and the thrust is generated by means of high frequency pulses, reproducing the defence mechanism of a notable insect: the bombardier beetle. The radical innovation introduced by PulCheR is the elimination of any external pressurizing system even if the thruster works at high pressure inside the combustion chamber. At each pulse, pressurization of the combustion chamber gases takes place due to the decomposition or combustion reaction, and the final pressure is much higher than the one at which the propellants are stored. The weight of the feeding system is significantly reduced because the propellants are fed at low pressure, and there is no need for turbopumps, high pressure propellant tanks or gas vessels. The feed pressure becomes independent on the chamber pressure and the performance degradation typical of the blow down mode in monopropellant thrusters can be avoided. The PulCheR concept is able to substitute many currently used propulsion systems for accessing space. It can be employed for low orbital flight and beyond and subsequent re-entry (allowing also for re-usable vehicles), and can be used in space vehicles for typical manoeuvres around a planet or during interplanetary missions. The feasibility of this new propulsion concept will be investigated at breadboard level in both mono and bipropellant configurations through the design, realization and testing of a platform of the overall propulsion system including all its main components. In addition, the concept will be investigated using green propellants with potential similar performance to the current state-of-the-art for monopropellant and bipropellant thrusters. The test campaign will experimentally investigate the propulsive performance of the system in terms of specific impulse, minimum impulse bit and thrust modulation.'