Spectrally adapted red flare tracers with superior spectral performance

The production of bright light, with vivid color, is the primary purpose of signaling, illuminating devices, and fire control purposes. This study, reports on the development of red flame compositions with enhanced performance in terms of luminous intensity, and color quality. The light intensity an...

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Published in:Defence Technology（防务技术） 2017, Vol.13 (6), p.406-412
Main Authors: Ramy Sadek, Mohamed Kassem, Mohamed Abdo, Sherif Elbasuney
Format: Article
Language:Chinese
Subjects:
flames
Tracers
Luminous
intensity
Molecular
Pyrotechnics
Colored
spectroscopy
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Summary:The production of bright light, with vivid color, is the primary purpose of signaling, illuminating devices, and fire control purposes. This study, reports on the development of red flame compositions with enhanced performance in terms of luminous intensity, and color quality. The light intensity and the imprint spectra of developed red flame compositions to standard NATO red tracer (R-284 NATO) were measured using digital luxmeter, and UVeVis. spectrometer. The main giving of this study is that the light intensity of standard NATO red tracer was increased by 72%, the color quality was also improved by 60% (over the red band from 650 to 780 nm). This enhanced spectral performance was achieved by means of deriving the combustion process to maximize the formation of red color emitting species in the combustion flame. Thanks to the optimum ratio of color source to color intensifier using aluminum metal fuel; this approach offered the highest intensity and color quality. Upon combustion, aluminum was found to max
ISSN:2214-9147
2214-9147