PARTITIONED CENTAUR TEST TANK

Abstract

Presented are results of a program to modify an available Centaur tankage system for testing in the Air Force Rocket Propulsion Laboratory Space Environmental Simulation Chamber to determine its thermodynamic suitability for space storability. Results of a detailed thermal analysis predict equilibrium propellant tank net heat rates of 42.09 BTU/hr for the LH2 tank and 14.56 BTU/hr for the LN2 tank with corresponding respective boil-off rates of 0.218 lb/hr and 0.169 lb/hr.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1967
Accession Number
AD0817380

Entities

People

  • William A. Roberts

Organizations

  • General Dynamics

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Detectors
  • Energy
  • Engineers
  • Fabrication
  • Fuel Tanks
  • Heat Transfer
  • Liquid Hydrogen
  • Material Degradation Processes
  • Materials
  • Materials Processing
  • Measurement
  • Pressure Gages
  • Rocket Propulsion
  • Space Environments
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Facilities
  • Vacuum Chambers

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Mycotoxin ecology in Amazonian ecosystems.
  • Rocket Propulsion.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Hall-Effect Thruster
  • Space - Satellites