Patent ID: 8728259

Claim:
A gas generating system comprising: a gas generator containing a housing; a gas generating composition contained within a gas generant bed within said housing, said gas generator having a predetermined combustion temperature, and a predetermined heat of combustion; and a separate decomposition additive in thermodynamic communication with said gas generating composition upon actuation of said gas generator, said decomposition additive commingled about said gas generating composition in physical, proximate, and discrete relationship to said gas generating composition, said decomposition additive selected from the group consisting of ammonium nitrate, guanidine nitrate, azodicarbonamide, biurea, tetrazoles, salts of tetrazoles, and triazoles, said decomposition additive decomposing at a temperature at or below the combustion temperature of said gas generant, wherein said gas generating composition consists of: a primary fuel selected from the group consisting of tetrazoles, a benzene-based fuel, dinitrobenzamide, and nitroisophthalic acid, and mixtures thereof; an aromatic or non-aromatic basic constituent selected from the group consisting of amino compounds, salts of amino compounds, alkali metal salts, and mixtures thereof; an oxidizer selected from the group consisting of metallic oxidizers; and an additive selected from the group consisting of catalytic non-oxidizing molybdenum-containing constituents.