Abstract:
A process for the preparation of ''''Gudol powder'''' from a mixture of nitrocellulose, diglycol dinitrate, nitroguanidine, and additives, wherein an aqueous raw mixture of nitrocellulose and diglycol dinitrate is premixed with the other components, the said final mixture then dehydrated in part, plasticized, and finally pressed into the final shape of the powder product. The improvement in the process comprises reducing the water content of the premixed components in a first drying stage, then homogenizing and preplasticizing the premixed components in a continuously operating masticator, thereafter further reducing the water content of the composition in a second drying stage, thereupon plasticizing and converting the composition into granular form in a continuously operating extruder, adjusting the moisture control of the granulated material to a required pressing or extruding moisture, and finally extruding the granulated material to the final shape of the powder product in a continuously operating extruder.
Abstract:
A process for the preparation of spherical, multiple-base propellant powder for firearms having a low permissible maximum pressure which powder has a base of nitric acid esters of cellulose includes the steps of utilizing a mixture of nitrocellulose and at least one nitrate selected from the group consisting of glycerin trinitrate and glycol dinitrate as propellant raw material; agitating said raw material and stabilizers for the material dissolved in a water-immiscible first solvent under water to effect formation of a lacquer containing said raw material and the stabilizers in the solvent within an aqueous system; segregating the thus-produced lacquer into a plurality of particles by the addition of a protective colloid and alkaline salts; allowing the lacquer particles to flow together again by subsequently changing the agitating speed of the aqueous system and thereupon adding once more protective colloid and salt and again segregating the lacquer to form spherical particles of propellant powder by adjusting the agitating speed of the aqueous system to approximately the value at which the first segregation of the lacquer has taken place; and, after the second segregating step is finished, removing more than one-half of the solvent from the aqueous system by distillation; adding burn controll moderators dissolved in a second water immiscible solvent to the aqueous system; and subsequently, removing the remaining portion of water-immiscible solvents from the aqueous system. The moderators are coated on the spherical particles of the propellent powder.