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Combustion temperatures in methane oxygen rocket engines exceed three thousand Kelvin
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The available sources mention combustion chambers for liquid rocket engines and a forum question about methane and oxygen engine temperatures, but do not provide sufficient data to confirm the specific temperature threshold.

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Refractory High-Entropy Alloys (RHEAs) have rapidly emerged as one of the most promising classes of ultra-high-temperature materials for liquid rocket engine (LRE) combustion chambers and throat liners, where structural components are subjected to some of the most aggressive thermochemical environments in aerospace engineering. LRE combustion zones routinely exceed 3000 K, expose walls to heat fluxes of 15–25 MW/m², and generate extreme thermal gradients often surpassing several hundred kelvin per millimetre. These conditions accelerate creep deformation, promote oxidation induced embrittlement, and destabilise strengthening phases in conventional Ni-based superalloys, ultimately limiting their service life and reusability (Miracle & Senkov,2017). As propulsion systems move toward higher chamber pressures and more demanding duty cycles, material systems capable of maintaining structural stability beyond the limits of current superalloys are required. RHEAs—particularly multi-principal-element systems such as Ti–Zr–Nb–Ta–Mo—offer a fundamentally different pathway for achieving the thermomechanical performance required for next-generation reusable engines. Their exceptionally high melting points (>2000°C), combined with severe lattice distortion and sluggish atomic diffusion, suppress dislocation mobility, delay diffusion-controlled degradation, and enhance creep resistance under sustained thermal loading. The entropy-stabilised BCC solid-solution phases commonly exhibited in t
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# What is the temperature inside a methane/oxygen rocket engine? Tags: rockets, engine-design, fuel, engines, temperature - Score: 11 - Views: 6523 - Answers: 1 - Answered: yes - Asked by: Bohemian (827 rep) - Asked: 2015-07-01 - Edited: 2015-08-31 - Site: space ## Question Assuming a simple rocket engine, with a combustion chamber and de laval nozzle, fueled by liquid methane and liquid oxygen, what temperature must the combustion chamber, choke and nozzle withstand? From a university article, the adiabatic temperature of a perfect mix would be about 5000C: However, when combustion products expand they cool, so this question could be rephrased as what pressures exist in the three main parts of the engine. Really I am asking "how tough does the inside of a rocket engine need to be"? What is the max temperature and pressure the materials must be able to withstand? ## Answers ### Answer by PearsonArtPhoto (score: 6 [ACCEPTED]) I found a paper by 4 authors that compares Kerosene engines to Methane engines. It states the chamber temperature of a Methane rocket is 3533K, comparable to the RP-1 3676K chamber temperature. The optimal temperature in a vacuum is 3563K, compared to
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  1. Refractory High-Entropy Alloys for Liquid Rocket Engine Combustion Chambers and Throat Linerspeer-reviewedno side taken
  2. What is the temperature inside a methane/oxygen rocket engine?referenceno side taken
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