Evaluation of Space Station Thermal Control Techniques 860998
A procedure is developed for evaluating various candidates for thermal control in the orbiting space station. Candidates for acquisition, transport and rejection are considered. For example, thermal rejection candidates include heat pipe radiators, high capacity heat pipe radiators and liquid droplet raditors. A computer program has been developed which computes subsystem and total system weights, volumes, powers and costs for a system consisting of selected acquisition, transport and rejection candidates. The program user is also able to select mission parameters such as duration, resupply interval, thermal loads, transport distance, acquisition temperature and rejection temperature. Simulation models are included in the program which allow the user to change candidate designs. For example, for a high capacity heat pipe radiator the user may change working fluid, materials, radiator temperature, radiator geometry, surface emissivity and surface absorptivity. The program also allows the selection of several different acquisitions of thermal energy at different temperatures using different acquisition candidates.
Citation: Hall, J., Colwell, G., and Hartley, J., "Evaluation of Space Station Thermal Control Techniques," SAE Technical Paper 860998, 1986, https://doi.org/10.4271/860998. Download Citation
Author(s):
J. B. Hall, Gene T. Colwell, James G. Hartley
Affiliated:
NASA Langley Research Center, Georgia Institute of Technology
Pages: 14
Event:
Intersociety Conference on Environmental Systems
ISSN:
0148-7191
e-ISSN:
2688-3627
Also in:
Aerospace Environmental Systems-Proceedings of the Sixteenth Ices Conference-P-177
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