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Combustion, Explosion and Shock Waves

2016 year, number 3

Effect of Small Additions of Diethylenetriamine on the Width of the Reaction Zone in Detonation Waves in Nitromethane

V. M. Mochalova1,2, A. V. Utkin1,2, S. M. Lapin1,3
1Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Chernogolovka, 142432 Russia
2Tomsk State University, Tomsk, 634050 Russia
3Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, 119991 Russia
Keywords: детонация, химпик, структура детонационной волны, время реакции, нитрометан, диэтилентриамин, волны срыва реакции, критический диаметр, detonation, chemical spike, detonation wave structure, reaction time, nitromethane, diethylenetriamine, reaction disruption wave, critical diameter

Abstract

This paper presents the results of an experimental determination of the width of the reaction zone in a detonation wave in nitromethane sensitized by diethylenetriamine. It was found that increasing the mass concentration of diethylenetriamine from 0 to 2.0% reduced the typical reaction time by a factor of less than two while the critical diameter decreased by an order of magnitude. This discrepancy is explained by the fact that the critical detonation diameter of neat nitromethane is determined not by the reaction time but by flow instability at the edge of the charge, manifested in the occurrence of a wave of reaction disruption. Increasing the initial rate of nitromethane decomposition by addition of diethylenetriamine leads to flow stabilization and thus to a change in the nature of the critical diameter.