brian howell

Propellent formulation

I spent some time performing research at the Zucrow Propulsion Laboratory at Purdue University where I worked on tuning ignition and combustion of aluminum-fuel propellents via a piezoelectric mechanism. For uninitiated propellents, we would dispose of them by igniting them in the fumehood...
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Obligatory video of ingniting aluminum-fuel propellent