Butane/Hot water rocket

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Butane/Hot water rocket

Post by zee » Sun May 17, 2009 11:52 pm

Is it feasible to make a rocket from butane and hot water?

The hot water and luke warm butane are pressure fed into a chamber, like a combustion chamber, but where the two fluids mix turbulently and come into thermal equilibrium, the butane expands and the mixture then exits out the back.

A bit like a hot water rocket except the water is butane and it is heated by a fluid with a much lower vapour pressure.

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