Diethanolammoniummethylcubane nitrates hydroxylammonium nitrate (HAN) solutions as aqueous liquid gun propellant ingredients

• US 5,232,526 A
• Filed: 07/10/1992
• Issued: 08/03/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 07/10/1992
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Alliant Techsystems Incorporated (Northrop Grumman Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Thiokol Corporation (Howmet Aerospace, Inc.)
• Inventors: Willer, Rodney L., Stern, Alfred G.
• Primary Examiner(s): Miller, Edward A.
• Application Number:
  US07/911,937
• Time in Patent Office: 389 Days
• Field of Search: 149/45, 149/92, 564/456, 564/458, 564/461
• US Class Current: 149/45
• CPC Class Codes: C06B 25/00 Compositions containing a nitrated organic compound
• CPC Class Codes: C06B 31/00 Compositions containing an inorganic nitrogen-oxygen salt
• CPC Class Codes: C06B 47/00 Compositions in which the components are separately stored until the moment of burning or explosion, e.g. "Sprengel"-type explosives; Suspensions of solid component in a normally non-explosive liquid phase, including a thickened aqueous phase
• CPC Class Codes: C07C 215/08 with only one hydroxy group and one amino group bound to the carbon skeleton
• CPC Class Codes: C07C 2603/90 containing more than four rings

Abstract

This invention is for new compounds, namely, diethanolammoniummethylcubane nitrates, a composition of diethanolammonium methylcubyl nitrates - hydroxylammonium nitrate (HAN) solutions and their method of use as aqueous liquid gun propellant ingredients.

Claims

1. N,N-diethanolammoniummethylcubane nitrate.

2. 1,4Bis-(N,N-diethanolammoniummethyl)cubane dinitrate.

3. A composition useful as a liquid gun propellant comprising:

a) an effective amount of hydroxylammonium nitrate, dissolved in an effective amount of water, along with

b) an effective amount of at least one compound selected from the group consisting of N,N-diethanolammoniummethylcubane nitrate and 1,4 Bis-(N,N-diethanolammoniummethyl)cubane dinitrate.

4. The composition of claim 3, wherein compound a) is present in an amount of from between about 40 and about 30 percent by weight, water is present in an amount of from between about 10 and 25 percent by weight, and compound b) including mixtures thereof, is present in an amount of from between about 10 and 25 percent by weight.