Platinum-rhodium combustion chamber for space applications

• The use of special materials in space travel is indispensable
• Additive manufacturing offers new potential for implementing function-optimized designs
• Combustion chamber made of Pt-Rh 80-20
• Selected procedure in the project: powder selection and qualification, parameter development for the application of a Pt alloy for AM, production of a demonstrator component, component hot test
• Successful hot test of the AM combustion chamber at Airbus in Lampoldshausen
• Increased efficiency and performance possible
• Transfer to other Pt alloys

Publication:

F. Riß, D. Jaschik: Einsatz der Additiven Fertigung zur Herstellung von Brennkammern und Düsen aus Edelmetallen für Satellitentriebwerke, Rapid.Tech, 2015.