Inexpensive, safe apparatus built to test cooling by, ignition in, and nucleate boiling to film boiling of liquid oxygen flowing around ball bearings. Provides for heating of bearing specimens, direct observations, and measurements of temperatures and temperature distributions by thermocouples and infrared sensors. Used to evaluate suitability of various materials and surface treatments for ball bearings in high-pressure liquid-oxygen turbopumps. Ball rests in fixture while liquid oxygen flows around it. Flow reversed so observer or infrared sensor can view phenomena on trailing or leading side of ball.
Testing Bearing Balls For Ignition In Liquid Oxygen
NASA Tech Briefs ; 14 , 7
1990-07-01
Miscellaneous
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English
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