The pintle injector is a type of propellant injector for a bipropellant rocket engine. Like any other injector, its purpose is to ensure appropriate flow...
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a pintle is usually fitted to a caster; the pintle is then inserted into a base, fixing the caster to that base. In rocketry, a pintle injector uses...
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TR-106 (redirect from Low Cost Pintle Engine)
booster engine. The design used a single element coaxial pintle injector, a robust type of injector. It also used ablative cooling of the combustion chamber...
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Liquid-propellant rocket (section Injectors)
swirling Pintle The pintle injector permits good mixture control of fuel and oxidizer over a wide range of flow rates. The pintle injector was used in...
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fuel and dinitrogen tetroxide (N 2O 4) oxidizer. This engine used a pintle injector, which paved the way for other engines to use similar designs. The...
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mounted so as to minimise thermal contact with the mass of the head. A pintle injector with a narrow spray pattern is used. At its top dead centre (TDC) the...
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SpaceX Raptor (redirect from Swirl injector)
Raptor 2 uses coaxial swirl injectors to admit propellants to the combustion chamber, rather than Merlin's pintle injectors. Raptor is designed for deep...
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used a pintle injector first invented by Gerard W. Elverum Jr. and developed by TRW in the late 1950s and received US Patent in 1972. This injector technology...
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2023. The pintle injector was reduced to practice and developed by TRW starting in 1960; however, it was not until 1972 that the pintle injector design patent...
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landing pad using one of its nine Merlin engines. The injector at the heart of Merlin is of the pintle type that was first used in the Apollo Lunar Module...
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structure, pressure-fed engines using N2O4 / UDMH, later LOX /RP-1, with pintle injectors scaled up from TRW's Lunar Module Descent Engine (LMDE). The Sea Dragon...
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and ethanol. The engine has a nominal thrust of 5 kN, and using a pintle injector, the thrust can be varied between 20% and 110%. The development program...
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oxygen as propellants in a gas-generator power cycle. The injector of Executor is of the pintle type that was first used in the Apollo Program for the lunar...
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Diesel engine (section Unit injectors)
filter for passenger cars. 2002: Piezoelectric injector technology by Siemens. 2003: Piezoelectric injector technology by Bosch, and Delphi. 2004: BMW introduces...
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Malone and crew installing shutters on the front facade, using traditional pintle hinges and shutter dogs. Inside, master electrician Allen Gallant shows...
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orbit (LEO). Space Vector fabricated a Vapak pressure fed coaxial pintle injector engine and the Storage and Launch Carrier (SLC) system used to deploy...
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oxygen under development by Galactic Energy. The engine features a pintle type injector, a double suction coaxial split turbine pump, and a gas generator...
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valve cover via bushings that isolate the loud ticking noise that injector pintles make. GM claims that the 1.0-liter turbo is 25 percent (3 dBA) quieter...
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Inconel prechamber in the cylinder heads using Bosch pintle and seat mechanical fuel injectors. This is called indirect injection. GM used fully mechanical...
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ratio was controlled by a stepper motor that operated a rack which moved a pintle that opened and closed the float bowl vent. When closed, no air could enter...
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stage main engine; it was used in 2006–2009. It was built around the same pintle architecture as SpaceX's Merlin engine but does not have a turbo-pump, and...
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nozzles are radial out-flow nozzles with the flow deflected by a center pintle. Controlled flow-separation nozzles include: expanding nozzle, bell nozzles...
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(also used on the SpaceX Merlin and Rocketdyne F-1). It utilizes a pintle-type injector. In 2021, The Verge reported that Astra Space had purchased up to...
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Rebuilt late production BTS-2 fitted with antiaircraft heavy machine gun pintle mount and additional stowage boxes. BTS-Saddam - Iraqi produced armoured...
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go, is tank country: even the tops of mountains." However, the lack of pintle-mounted machine guns on the turret meant that the Centurion was only able...
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bumpers, a brush guard, a NATO slave receptacle/NATO trailer receptacle, a pintle hook, tow shackles and a 24/12-volt electrical system. The dashboard has...
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bumpers, a brush guard, a NATO slave receptacle/NATO trailer receptacle, a pintle hook, tow shackles, and a 24/12-volt electrical system. The dashboard has...
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ball-mounted M1919 A4 in the front hull operated by the assistant driver and a pintle mounted .50 caliber M2 Browning HB machine gun with 300 rounds on the turret...
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20:1 compression ration, 12 PS at 3000rpm, swirl chamber injection with pintle nozzle and rod glow plug. Dry weight 150 kg 2087 Two cylinder diesel tractor...
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TR-85M1 tank has two machine guns: A 12.7×108mm DShKM heavy machine gun in a pintle mount on the loader's hatch ring. The DShK machine gun is made by UM Cugir...
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