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Mechanical Engineering

Aluminum

University of Texas at El Paso

2016

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Combustion Of Novel Thermite Mixtures For Iodine Generation, Sergio Emanuel Guerrero Jan 2016

Combustion Of Novel Thermite Mixtures For Iodine Generation, Sergio Emanuel Guerrero

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Halogen-containing reactive materials could be used for mitigating the spread of hazardous, active biological microorganisms aerosolized as a result of explosion. The present work exhibits experimental results on the combustion of mechanically alloyed aluminum-iodine (Al-I2) powder mixed with Fe2O3, CuO, MoO3, Bi2O3, and I2O5. Wet mixing was used to prepare the samples, which were then compacted into pellets and ignited with a CO2 laser. A chamber was designed and built to accommodate for combustion and collection of products, and the available laser ignition setup was modified to enable combustion experiments with rapidly burning gas-generating mixtures. High-speed video recording was used …