Design and Characteristics of a Dynamic Cooler for Space Use Swiss Federal Aircraft Factory and European Space Research and Technology Centre

Format:

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Berner, Felix, author.

Conference Name:

Intersociety Conference on Environmental Systems (1984-07-16 : San Diego, California, United States)

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Warrendale, PA SAE International 1984

Summary:

The design and performance characteristics of a dynamic cooler are described. This unit can be used as a stand-alone refrigerator in spacecraft as well as within a fluid loop system that will provide active thermal control for payloads. The design of the cooler, featuring a vapor compression cycle, satisfies three basic requirements: (1) Heat removal rate at the source (payload or fluid loop) of about 0.8 kW at source temperatures of about 20° C, (2) maintaining the payload at a temperature level as low as -30° C with required heat removal rates of the order of a few tens of Watts, (3) heat rejection to a fluid with an initial temperature up to 45° C.

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Publisher Number:

840964

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