| Summary: | NASA determines flammability of metal and alloy samples in high pressure oxygen by Test 17 of NHB 8060.1C. An aluminum or magnesium promoter, releasing at least 3.0 kJ, is used as the sample ignition source. This ignition system is modelled using lumped-parameter mathematical equations and solved using the MATLAB computer code. Model parameters were obtained from the combustion of Al and Mg promoters on copper rods in the standard flammability instrument system. The copper rod is non-flammable under test conditions, that is, pure oxygen pressures of 3.44, 6.89, 20.7, 34.4 and 68.9 MPa. At test conditions, both aluminum and magnesium alloyed with the copper rod and burned in liquid phase reactions. The following heterogenous kinetic reaction rate functions were obtained: for Al: RAl=0.102Po21.+0.186Po2,g/m2sfor Mg: RMg=0.067Po21.+0.146Po2,g/m2s
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