The system utilizes a spherical tank structure A separated into two equal volume compartments by a flat bulkhead B. Each compartment has four similar gallery channel legs located in the principal vehicle axes, ensuring that bulk propellant will contact at least one gallery leg during vehicle maneuvers. The forward compartment gallery channel legs collect propellant and feed it into the aft compartment through communication screens which protrude into the aft compartment. The propellant is then collected by the screened gallery channels in the aft compartment and supplied to the propellant outlet. The invention resides in the independent gallery assembly and screen structure by means of which propellant flow from forward to aft compartments is maintained. Liquid surface tension of the liquid on the screens is used to control liquid flow. The system provides gas-free propellants in low or zero-g environments regardless of axial accelerations and propellant orientation in bulk regions of the vessel.


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    Titel :

    Passive Propellant System


    Beteiligte:
    D. A. Hess (Autor:in) / W. W. Regnier (Autor:in) / V. L. Jacobs (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1978


    Format / Umfang :

    16 pages


    Medientyp :

    Report


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch




    Passive propellant system

    Hess, D. A. / Regnier, W. W. / Jacobs, V. L. | NTRS | 1978


    Passive Propellant System

    D. A. Hess / W. W. Regnier / V. L. Jacobs | NTIS | 1978


    Passive propellant system

    Hess, D. A. / Regnier, W. W. / Jacobs, V. L. | NTRS | 1979