LIDER_ROCKET23 – SyntCARBON

Project is supported by funds of The National Centre for Research and Development

grant no. LIDER13/0108/2022

Project title

Development of a new generation of rocket engine nozzles made of a carbon-carbon composite material

Duration: 2023 – 2026

Aim

The aim of the project is to develop a technology to produce carbon-carbon composite materials with carbon fiber reinforcement on the Polish market, and to develop a new generation of rocket engine nozzles made of it.

The target group for the project results:

Space and defense industry
Industrial high temperature applications

Our material advantages:

high resistance to high-temperature erosion,
low weight,
high mechanical strength

Methods of composites manufacture use in the project:

pultrusion,
vacuum infusion process (VIP),
filament winding,
liquid phase infiltration,
chemical vapor infiltration technique (CVI).

Lab equipment:

Resins thermal analysis: TG,DSC, FTIR, STA, viscosity and other,
Carbon fiber testing: XRD, Raman spectroscopy, mechanical testing and other,
Composites analysis: microscopic testing, mechanical testing, electrical and thermal testing, and other.
Composite manufacture: laboratory filament winder model X-Winder 4×23, vacuum infusion set, furnaces for composites pyrolysis and high thermal treatment, chemical vapor infiltration (CVI) furnace,

Updates from lab

*Our pultruded rods made of carbon fiber and phenolic resin*

*Carbon-carbon composite after bending strength test*

*Hybrid rocket engine nozzle made of carbon-carbon composite*

Dissemination of project results

Publications

Maciej Gubernat, WĘGIEL I RAKIETY, Przegląd Techniczny,
ISSN 0137-8783, e-ISSN 1689-1724, maj 2023, s. 26–27.
Collaboration between SpaceForest and AGH University: Development of CFRC composite technologies,
21.10.2024,
https://spaceforest.pl/collaboration-between-spaceforest-and-agh-university-development-of-cfrc-composite-technologies/
Maciej GUBERNAT, Piotr SZATKOWSKI, Ryszard WIELOWSKI, Martyna SZATKOWSKA, Angelika KMITA,
Wojciech PIEKARCZYK, Aneta FRĄCZEK-SZCZYPTA.
Comparative study of cross-linking processes of selected commercial resole-type phenol-formaldehyde resins
as matrix precursors for a pultruded carbon fiber-phenolic based composite.
AIP Advances 15 (2025) 045036-1–045036-15.

Conferences

M. ZAMBRZYCKI, M. GUBERNAT, R. WIELOWSKI, W. PIEKARCZYK, A.FRĄCZEK-SZCZYPTA, Carbon-carbon composite rocket motor nozzles prepared by filament winding method, Copernican revolution in carbon science : the 11th Torunian carbon symposium : 15-18.09.2024, Toruń, Poland, referat, https://carbonsymposium.pl/Book.pdf [2024-09-20]
M.GUBERNAT, R.WIELOWSKI, P.SZATKOWSKI, M.SZATKOWSKA, A.KMITA, P.JELEŃ, A.BENKO, M.ZAMBRZYCKI, W.PIEKARCZYK, A.FRĄCZEK-SZCZYPTA, Study of the suitability of selected phenol formaldehyde resins as precursors of carbon-carbon composite matrices, Copernican revolution in carbon science : the 11th Torunian carbon symposium : 15-18.09.2024, Toruń, Poland, referat, https://carbonsymposium.pl/Book.pdf [2024-09-20]
R. WIELOWSKI, P. CZAJA, W.PIEKARCZYK, M.GUBERNAT, A. FRĄCZEK-SZCZYPTA, Study of the graphitization trajectory of low- and medium-textured pyrolytic carbons under additional heat treatment, Copernican revolution in carbon science : the 11th Torunian carbon symposium : 15-18.09.2024, Toruń, Poland, referat, https://carbonsymposium.pl/Book.pdf [2024-09-20]
R.WIELOWSKI, J. STOJECKI, M.SZATKOWSKA, P.SZATKOWSKI, M.GUBERNAT, Research on pultrusion as a method for obtaining carbon fiber reinforced rods in carbon-carbon composites, Copernican revolution in carbon science : the 11th Torunian carbon symposium : 15-18.09.2024, Toruń, Poland, plakat, https://carbonsymposium.pl/Book.pdf [2024-09-20]
M. ZAMBRZYCKI, M. GUBERNAT, R. WIELOWSKI, W. PIEKARCZYK, A.FRĄCZEK-SZCZYPTA, Preparation of 3D carbon fibre reinforced carbon composites for rocket motor nozzles, Copernican revolution in carbon science : the 11th Torunian carbon symposium : 15-18.09.2024, Toruń, Poland, plakat, https://carbonsymposium.pl/Book.pdf [2024-09-20]
M.GUBERNAT, R.WIELOWSKI, M. ZAMBRZYCKI, A.FRĄCZEK-SZCZYPTA, Study of the oxidative thermal stabilization process of hard coal tar pitch for carbon-carbon composites matrix precursor, Copernican revolution in carbon symposium : 15-18.09.2024, Toruń, Poland, plakat, https://carbonsymposium.pl/Book.pdf [2024-09-20]