Progress on endothermic reactions of hydrocarbon fuel for hypersonic flight

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Abstract The development of hypersonic vehicle technology has important economic and military significance since the improvement of aircraft speed is an important research direction in the field of aerospace. Endothermic hydrocarbon fuels provide important guarantee for hypersonic vehicles. This article mainly introduces the development of endothermic hydrocarbon fuels and their endothermic reactions, focuses on cracking and reforming reactions, analyzes the influence of reaction conditions on thermal cracking, investigates the relationship between fuel molecular structure and thermal cracking reactions, introduces the catalytic performance of molecular sieves, metals and activated carbon cracking catalysts, and summarizes the research progress on catalytic reforming reactions.

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	HOU Lin
	LIU Qing
	ZHANG Xiangwen

Keywords： endothermic hydrocarbon fuel heat sink coking thermal cracking catalytic cracking catalytic reforming

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HOU Lin, LIU Qing, ZHANG Xiangwen.Progress on endothermic reactions of hydrocarbon fuel for hypersonic flight[J] Chemcial Industry and Engineering, 2022,V39(5): 1-10

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