Ahmad Hussein Abdul Hamid*, Wan Mohd Fairuz Wan Mamat, Zulkifli Abdul Ghaffar, P.M. Dr.

Rahim Atan
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
Universiti Teknologi MARA, 40450 Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia.* hussein_14@yahoo.com

Innovative fuel injector utilizing CASI technology

for meso-scale rocket

Conventional fuel injectors supply pressurized fuel via orifices so that the resulting streams intersect with each other and break up into
small droplets. However, this type of injector will reduce the resident time of fuel in the combustion chamber. As a result, unburned fuels
are thrown out from the engine. An innovative injector was developed and it is named Compact Advanced Swirl Injector (CASI). As its
name implies, the CASI supply fuel in a swirling spray form. The swirl generator is the central key feature of the CASI technology, which
enables robust mixing of fuel/oxidizer, flame stabilization and flame propagation that produces near complete combustion over a wide
range of compact combustor lengths and diameters. Swirl enhanced combustion produces significantly greater performance, on less
fuel, than conventional engines of similar size. There is great potential for transferring this "State Of The Art" technology from rocket
propulsion engines to automotive engines.

"Besides focusing on strategic fields such as biotechnology and information and communications
technology, aerospace exploration is also being looked at and developed," Deputy Prime Minister Datuk
Seri Mohd Najib Tun Abdul Razak, “Moving Towards Space Edge”. New Straits Times

OBJECTIVES

 To design and fabricate compact swirl injector for rocket application

 To investigate the effect of injector element on the
rocket performance

NOVELTY

The injector utilizing CASI technology is an innovative product that is

superior to traditional injectors in a way that it supply fuel in a swirling
spray form to produce more power, using less fuel, than conventional
engines. Conventional fuel injectors
SIGNIFICANCE

Contribution to spacecraft propulsion knowledge:

 Provide a relationship between different types of injector element

and rocket performance

 Smaller injector element is possible
Innovative fuel injectors
Contribution to Malaysia:
 Realization of Malaysian made rocket propulsion system
 Provide design, fabrication and testing procedures for rocket fuel
injector
RECOGNITION RECEIVED

A technical paper related to the technology titled “Spray Characteristics

of Jet-swirl Nozzles for Thrust Chamber Injector” has been accepted
for publication in International Journal of Aerospace Science and
Technology.

Design Fabricate Cold flow test Integration Static firing test

Rocket Injector Development Sequences at UiTM, Shah Alam