LIQUID-PROPELLANT ROCKET ENGINE AND THE METHOD OF ITS STARTING Russian patent published in 2007 - IPC F02K9/48 

FIELD: rocket engineering; production of the liquid propellant rocket engines.

SUBSTANCE: the invention is pertaining to the field of rocket engineering, in particular, to production of the liquid propellant rocket engines powered by the cryogenic oxidant and the hydrocarbon propellant. The liquid propellant rocket engine contains the combustion chamber with the tract of the regenerative cooling, the turbo-pumping aggregate with the turbine having the inlet and outlet trunks, and the pumps of the oxidant and the propellant, for which the outlet of the propellant p[ump is connected through the propellant valve to the combustion chamber, and the outlet of the oxidant pump through the oxidant valve is connected to the gas generator. At that the turbo-pump aggregate contains the additional propellant pump, which inlet is connected to the outlet of the propellant pump, and the outlet is connected to the gas generator through the high pressure pipeline, in which there is the high-pressure valve and the consumption regulator. In the trunk of the turbine there is the thrust regulator, to which the on-board trunk and the starting trunk with the return valve and the connector are connected. The method of the liquid propellant rocket engine starting provides for the spinning-up of the turbo-pump aggregate and opening of valves of the oxidant, the propellant, the propellant in the high-pressure trunk, run-up of the turbine conduct a compressed air from a land bulb, and the turbine spinning-up is exercised by the compressed air from the ground pressure vessel and the turbine drive at operation is exercised from the on-board vessel. The invention ensures simplification of the pneumatic-hydraulic circuit, the increased reliability, the increase of the power and the specific characteristics of the liquid propellant rocket engine, the decreased mass of the engines, the improved engine starting and cutoff and provision of the engine cleansing from the leavings of the propellant after the engine cutoff.

EFFECT: the invention ensures simplification of the liquid propellant rocket engine pneumatic-hydraulic circuit, the increased its reliability, power and specific characteristics, the decreased mass of the engine, the improved the engine starting, cutoff and cleansing from the leavings of the propellant after its cutoff.

4 cl, 1 dwg