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Cause of a Serious Condition Blasts’ Liquid for Airbag Classification

Vivek Yadav

Abstract


The explosion was fairly strong, and the entire unit was blasted into the air. In front of the airbag, there is a thin layer of plastic casing, which is ripped by the pressure that is developing within during the explosion. The airbags inflate as a result of the explosion. The chemical used in the airbag is sodium azide. These detectors in front of the automobile transmit an electrical impulse to the ignitor in the event of a collision. Due to the heat produced during the process, sodium azide decomposes into sodium metal and nitrogen gas, that causes the airbag to inflate. To accomplish essential performance as an inflator, a combustor with twin combustion chambers was developed tentatively. An inflator with two chambers is called a dual chamber inflator. Even with modern generation inflators, polluting gases such monoxide, nitrogen oxides, cyan, and hydrogen chloride can sometimes be reduced to a level that can be tolerated. When inflator-mounted automobiles are burned during operation and disposal, this paper describes a new inflator that produces clean gas and has a high efficiency gasification ratio of over 91wt% due to supercritical water. Water can help a fast molecular breakage against the higher strength energy by dissolving non-polar compounds under circumstances above. When projectile propellant or explosive combustion gases are impinged at hypersonic velocity onto liquid from starting nozzles, supercritical water is produced.


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