PROPELLANTS - PPSE04E

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Purpose: Content: This module covers the practical skills required to operate, maintain and manage the following: Introduction including types, definitions and applications of propellants, the historical overview, the behaviour of propellants, its energy and requirements The use of propellants and priming compositions Methods of ignition of gun propellants, the types of gun propellants, gun propellant ingredients and shapes Methods of ignition of rocket propellants, the types of rocket propellants, rocket propellant ingredients and shapes Manufacture, purification, transport, storage and safe handling of propellants Typical manufacturing processes, quality processing and applications of pyrotechnic devices which generate heat; create a noise; generate gas or produce light of various colours, that are generators of smoke and other chemicals as well as pyrotechnic time delays Chemical, physical and explosives properties of various propellants and internal ballistics and related sciences Day-to-day applications of propellants, black powder and other typical propellant compositions