Ozone treatment of water is an idea which should have been pursued sooner.
H2O2 breaks down into water, oxygen and *heat*. Great for cleaning out organics and some other materials, with little chance of contamination. Just mind the evolved heat.
Like Ozone, it's pretty neat stuff, but its potential has never been reached, due to certain problems.
Here are some of Dr. John D. Clark's comments on the attempts to use high-test peroxide as a storable oxidizer. "The cleanliness required was not merely surgical - it was levitical. Merely preparing an aluminum tank to hold peroxide was a project, a diverting ceremonial that could take days. Scrubbing, alkaline washes, acid washes, flushing, passivation with dilute peroxide —it went on and on. And even when it was successfully completed, the peroxide would still decompose slowly; not enough to start a runaway chain reaction, but enough to build up an oxygen pressure in a sealed tank, and make packaging impossible. And it is a nerve-wracking experience to put your ear against a propellant tank and hear it go "glub" - long pause - "glub" and so on. After such an experience many people, myself (particularly) included, tended to look dubiously at peroxide and to pass it by on the other side."
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Ozone treatment of water is an idea which should have been pursued sooner.
H2O2 breaks down into water, oxygen and *heat*. Great for cleaning out organics and some other materials, with little chance of contamination. Just mind the evolved heat.
Like Ozone, it's pretty neat stuff, but its potential has never been reached, due to certain problems.
Here are some of Dr. John D. Clark's comments on the attempts to use high-test peroxide as a storable oxidizer. "The cleanliness required was not merely surgical - it was levitical. Merely preparing an aluminum tank to hold peroxide was a project, a diverting ceremonial that could take days. Scrubbing, alkaline washes, acid washes, flushing, passivation with dilute peroxide —it went on and on. And even when it was successfully completed, the peroxide would still decompose slowly; not enough to start a runaway chain reaction, but enough to build up an oxygen pressure in a sealed tank, and make packaging impossible. And it is a nerve-wracking experience to put your ear against a propellant tank and hear it go "glub" - long pause - "glub" and so on. After such an experience many people, myself (particularly) included, tended to look dubiously at peroxide and to pass it by on the other side."