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Heat pipe powered stirling conversion for the demonstration using flattop fission (duff) test
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Gibson, Marc A. Brace, Michael H. Sanzi, James L. Briggs, Maxwell H. |
| Copyright Year | 2013 |
| Description | Design concepts for small Fission Power Systems (FPS) have shown that heat pipe cooled reactors provide a passive, redundant, and lower mass option to transfer heat from the fuel to the power conversion system, as opposed to pumped loop designs typically associated with larger FPS. Although many systems have been conceptually designed and a few making it to electrically heated testing, none have been coupled to a real nuclear reactor. A demonstration test named DUFF Demonstration Using Flattop Fission, was planned by the Los Alamos National Lab (LANL) to use an existing criticality experiment named Flattop to provide the nuclear heat source. A team from the NASA Glenn Research Center designed, built, and tested a heat pipe and power conversion system to couple to Flattop with the end goal of making electrical power. This paper will focus on the design and testing performed in preparation for the DUFF test. |
| File Size | 520895 |
| Page Count | 18 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20140011536 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t3421zs2s |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2013-12-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Fission Heat Pipes Nuclear Heat Simulation Stirling Cycle Transient Heating Nuclear Reactors Mechanical Engineering Steady State Requirements Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Technical Report |
