Combustion of Binary and Ternary Silicon/Oxidant Pyrotechnic Systems, Part IV: Kinetic Aspects

–Kinetic parameters for the processes occurring during controlled heating and during combustion of the binary silicon-fuelled pyrotechnic systems. Si/Fe2O3, Si/SnO2. Si/Sb203 and SilKN03 have been estimated,where possible, from the results of both thermal analysis and temperature profile measurements. The values obtained from the two very different techniques are compared and discussed, and the role of the oxidant, in a series of binary combinations of silicon as the common fuel with different oxidants, is discussed in terms of the detailed results reported in this and the immediately preceding three papers.