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Advanced sensible heat solar receiver for space power
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Bennett, Timothy J. Lacy, Dovie E. |
| Copyright Year | 1988 |
| Description | NASA Lewis, through in-house efforts, has begun a study to generate a conceptual design of a sensible heat solar receiver and to determine the feasibility of such a system for space power applications. The sensible heat solar receiver generated in this study uses pure lithium as the thermal storage medium and was designed for a 7 kWe Brayton (PCS) operating at 1100 K. The receiver consists of two stages interconnected via temperature sensing variable conductance sodium heat pipes. The lithium is contained within a niobium vessel and the outer shell of the receiver is constructed of third generation rigid, fibrous ceramic insulation material. Reradiation losses are controlled with niobium and aluminum shields. By nature of design, the sensible heat receiver generated in this study is comparable in both size and mass to a latent heat system of similar thermal capacitance. The heat receiver design and thermal analysis was conducted through the combined use of PATRAN, SINDA, TRASYS, and NASTRAN software packages. |
| File Size | 586514 |
| Page Count | 12 |
| File Format | |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19880011865 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t1mh2hf0m |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1988-01-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Spacecraft Propulsion And Power Insulation Fiber Composites Spacecraft Power Supplies Lithium Solar Collectors Brayton Cycle Ceramics Niobium Computer Programs Sodium Heat Pipes Heat Storage Solar Dynamic Power Systems Thermal Analysis Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports ServerĀ (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |