The recent hardware development and testing of a reduced gravity aircraft flight experiment has provided valuable insights for the future design of the Two Phase Flow Separator Experiment (TPFSE). The TPFSE is scheduled to fly within the Fluids Integration Rack (FIR) aboard the International Space Station (ISS) in 2020. The TPFSE studies the operational limits of gas and liquid separation of passive cyclonic separators. A passive cyclonic separator utilizes only the inertia of the incoming flow to accomplish the liquid-gas separation. Efficient phase separation is critical for environmental control and life support systems, such as recovery of clean water from bioreactors, for long duration human spaceflight missions. The final low gravity aircraft flight took place in December 2015 aboard NASA's C9 airplane.


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    Title :

    Development of the Two Phase Flow Separator Experiment for a Reduced Gravity Aircraft Flight


    Contributors:
    Golliher, Eric (author) / Gotti, Daniel (author) / Owens, Jay (author) / Gilkey, Kelly (author) / Pham, Nang (author) / Stehno, Philip (author)

    Conference:

    AIAA Thermophysics Conference 2016 ; 2016 ; Washington, DC, United States


    Publication date :

    2016-06-13


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





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