Characterization and thrust measurements from electrolytic decomposition of ammonium dinitramide (ADN) based liquid monopropellant FLP-103 in MEMS thrusters

Asad Rahman; Jitkai Chin; Feroz Kabir; Yew Mun Hung

doi:10.1016/j.cjche.2017.09.016

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Characterization and thrust measurements from electrolytic decomposition of ammonium dinitramide (ADN) based liquid monopropellant FLP-103 in MEMS thrusters

Materials and Product Engineering | Updated：2026-01-06

- Characterization and thrust measurements from electrolytic decomposition of ammonium dinitramide (ADN) based liquid monopropellant FLP-103 in MEMS thrusters
- Chinese Journal of Chemical Engineering Vol. 26, Issue 9, Pages: 1992-2002(2018)
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  1. 2 Department of Engineering and Mathematics, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield S1 1WB, United Kingdom
  2. 3 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Monash University Sunway Campus, Jalan Lagoon Selatan, Subang Jaya,Selangor,Malaysia,47500
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- DOI：10.1016/j.cjche.2017.09.016
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- Published：2018
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Asad Rahman, Jitkai Chin, Feroz Kabir, Yew Mun Hung. Characterization and thrust measurements from electrolytic decomposition of ammonium dinitramide (ADN) based liquid monopropellant FLP-103 in MEMS thrusters[J]. Chin.J.Chem.Eng., 2018, 26(9): 1992-2002.
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Asad Rahman, Jitkai Chin, Feroz Kabir, Yew Mun Hung. Characterization and thrust measurements from electrolytic decomposition of ammonium dinitramide (ADN) based liquid monopropellant FLP-103 in MEMS thrusters[J]. Chin.J.Chem.Eng., 2018, 26(9): 1992-2002. DOI： 10.1016/j.cjche.2017.09.016.

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Although ammonium dinitramide (ADN) has been targeted as a potential green monopropellant in future space vehicles

its application potential in Micro-electrical-Mechanical System (MEMS) thrusters or microthrusters has been seldom reported in open literature. In this paper

electrolytic decomposition of Ammonium Dinitramide (ADN)-based liquid monopropellant FLP-103 was carried out in an open chamber and MEMS thrusters were fabricated from poly-dimethylsiloxane (PDMS) to characterize the power consumption. Two thrust measurement methods were employed to investigate the electrolytic decomposition of FLP-103 in MEMS microthrusters. The results show that the monopropellant can be successfully ignited at room temperature through 80 V

0.1 A (8 W) using copper wire as electrodes. In the current thruster design

low thrust was obtained at FLP-103 flowrate of 40 μl·min

-1

but it generated the highest specific impulse

Isp

among all the flowrates tested. The experiments successfully demonstrated the potential application of electrolytic decomposition of FLP-103 in MEMS thrusters.

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