Condensed Phase Behavior in the Combustion of Ammonium Dinitramide

This paper reports on the thermal and combustion behaviors of ammonium dinitramide (ADN). The thermal behavior is measured by a pressure thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) at pressures below 8MPa. The burning rates of pure ADN and ADN/ammonium nitrate (AN) mixtures are measured in the range 0.2-12MPa, and the burning temperature profiles are obtained using thermocouples with diameters of 5 and 25m. This report mainly focuses on the condensed-phase behavior in the vicinity of a burning surface. The temperature profiles are complicated because the ADN decomposition and AN dissociation compete during the condensed phase, and the bubbles of the decomposition gas and gas-phase flame also affect the surface temperature. AN addition helps to understand the effects of AN during the condensed phase, and it was shown that the burning temperature rises to the critical temperature of AN. Based on these experimental results, the pressure dependency of the burning rates is also discussed.