Missile Fuel Homogeneous Fluid Solution

The product that is a homogeneous fluid solution has different components to perform various functional roles. The product designer has available more design variables to manipulate, and needs to balance their proportions to achieve the desired customer performance and company profit. Let us consider the design of a guided-missile fuel intended for the Tomahawk, which was used prominently in the opening phase of the invasion of Iraq in 2002. 

The early missile fuels were the JP-4 and JP-5 refined petroleum distillates used in turbine-powered aircrafts. The cost range is around 2.00 per gallon, so that a tank of fuel costs 300, which is a tiny fraction of the hardware cost. 

a better concept is to screen the heaviest compounds, or to add components to make the fuel heavier. Since two-ring compounds are better than one-ring compounds. 

The idea of adding metallic powder ran into a number of problems. It is difficult to keep the metallic powder suspended and uniformly distributed in the fluid, so that jelled fuels were developed that are ready to fire at any moment in time and place. The metallic powder also exerts a tendency to erode valves and nozzles. Sometimes the combustion is incomplete, and produces solid exhaust particles. 

Cubane, CsHs, is an exotic compound that is difficult to make in large quantities. On the other hand, two natural sources of adamantanes have been discovered in gas fields offshore in Mobile Bay in Louisiana and in Alberta, Canada. The adamantanes come as 

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