JP-10 (fuel)

JP-10 fuel - (Jet Propellant 10), is a jet fuel, specified and used mainly as a gas turbine fuel in missiles. Despite being designed for military purposes, it is not a kerosene based fuel. It is a gas turbine fuel for missiles.[1] It contains mainly exo-tetrahydrodicyclopentadiene (a synthetic fuel), and adamantane. However, it is usually classed as a single component fuel, as well as a hydrocarbon.[2] It is produced by catalytic hydrogenation of dicyclopentadiene and then isomerization. It superseded JP-9 because of a lower temperature service limit.[1] Its main use is in the Tomahawk missiles.[3]

The Russian equivalent is called detsilin.

  1. ^ a b Aviation Fuel Properties (PDF). Coordinating Research Council. 1983. p. 3. CRC Report Nº 530. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-07-22. Retrieved 2023-12-06.
  2. ^ Ciccarelli, G.; Card, J. (February 2006). "Detonation in Mixtures of JP-10 Vapor and Air". AIAA Journal. 44 (2): 362–367. doi:10.2514/1.18582. ISSN 0001-1452.
  3. ^ Coggeshall, Katharine. "Revolutionizing Tomahawk fuel". Los Alamos National Laboratory. Archived from the original on 21 May 2020. Retrieved 20 May 2020.