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Design of a cavity heat pipe receiver experimentA cavity heat pipe experiment has been designed to test the critical issues involved with incorporating thermal energy storage canisters into a heat pipe. The experiment is a replication of the operation of a heat receiver for a Brayton solar dynamic power cycle. The heat receiver is composed of a cylindrical receptor surface and an annular heat pipe with thermal energy storage canisters and gaseous working fluid heat exchanger tubes surrounding it. Hardware for the cavity heat pipe experiment will consist of a sector of the heat pipe, complete with gas tube and thermal energy storage canisters. Thermal cycling tests will be performed on the heat pipe sector to simulate the normal energy charge/discharge cycle of the receiver in a spacecraft application.
Document ID
19930041988
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Schneider, Michael G.
(NASA Lewis Research Center Cleveland, OH, United States)
Brege, Mark H.
(NASA Lewis Research Center Cleveland, OH, United States)
Greenlee, William J.
(Sundstrand Aerospace Rockford, IL, United States)
Date Acquired
August 16, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1992
Publication Information
Publication: In: IECEC '92; Proceedings of the 27th Intersociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference, San Diego, CA, Aug. 3-7, 1992. Vol. 2 (A93-25851 09-44)
Publisher: Society of Automotive Engineers, Inc.
Subject Category
Fluid Mechanics And Heat Transfer
Accession Number
93A25985
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAS3-25554
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other

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