The optimized design consists of aluminum propellant tanks, a cylindrical outer structural shell, tank mounted multi-layer insulation, a propellant management system with capacitance probe propellant mass sensors, and screen start baskets to provide propellants at the tank outlets during zero g coast. A pressurization system is used which keeps the propellant tank constituents in thermal equilibrium at all times, thereby maintaining a constant state of readiness. The propellant inlet ducts are designed to maintain liquid propellants in near proximity to the engine inlet, providing an instant start capability.
Advanced Maneuvering Propulsion System (Convair Propellant Feed System Design). Volume 2 - Selected Configuration Description
1970
659 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Rocket Engines & Motors , Rocket Propellants , Manufacturing Processes & Materials Handling , Liquid propellant rocket engines , Propellant control , Propellant tanks , Sloshing , Configuration , Purging , Vents , Shells(Structural forms) , Thermal insulation , Detectors , Pneumatic devices , Mass transfer , Pressurization , Duct inlets , Launching , Baffles , Heat transfer , Starting , Manufacturing , Thermal analysis , Structural members , Drag , Propellant transfer , Advanced maneuvering propulsion system , Amps(Advanced maneuvering propulsion system) , Propellant feed , Restartable motors