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20.01.2021

Microgravity is helping to provide answers and models for improving the processes needed to efficiently burn solid fuels such as iron dust. Solid propellants are used to burn matches, to light sparklers on New Year's Eve, and as fuel in the boosters of many rockets.

But metals like iron can also burn as a powder, they are completely smokeless and contain no carbon. Metals can be produced using clean energy, such as solar panels or wind turbines. This electricity is stored as chemical energy in metal powder with energy densities that are comparable to fossil fuels.

The technology has the potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions globally, but an obstacle to the implementation of this technology is the development of combustion systems that can efficiently burn metallic fuels, which requires a solid understanding of the physics of their combustion.

In order to understand the physics of metallic fuel combustion, the iron powder cluster must be suspended for about 30 seconds, the time needed to observe and study how the flame spreads. Researchers have used sounding rockets and parabolic flights to conduct weightlessness experiments and test existing models, with promising results. The density of iron particles and the composition of gases in the combustion chamber are important parameters, as in a gasoline car engine.

Microgravity allows you to study the laws of flame propagation, optimize the parameters of industrial burners and reduce environmental impact. These space experiments also help us understand similar phenomena such as the spread of contagious microbes and forest fires.

In a vote of confidence in the technology, a team of students from TU Eindhoven in the Netherlands worked with industrial partners to design a metal incineration plant, which is now installed at the Swinkels Family Brewers plant, subsidized by the Dutch province of Noord Brabant, and used to produce steam for the brewing process.

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