{"title":"Porous Material for Gas Thermal Compression in Space Conditions: Thermal Design Aspects","authors":"I. Ušakovs","doi":"10.2478/lpts-2023-0048","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract It is almost impossible to name a field of human activity where porous materials are not used. Filters, membranes, thermal insulators, fuel cells, catalysts, wicks of heat transfer devices, sorbents, textiles, and other examples of porous materials explain such an increased interest in the study of their properties, design of new materials, and development of technologies for their manufacture. The recent need for in-orbit spacecraft refuelling has led to the development of gas thermal compression technology based on the use of porous material as both a fuel retention mechanism and thermal interface. The present paper reveals the thermal aspects of porous material design for a device intended for pumping xenon, fuel for ion thrusters, in zero-gravity conditions – Xenon Refuelling Compressor.","PeriodicalId":43603,"journal":{"name":"Latvian Journal of Physics and Technical Sciences","volume":"60 s80","pages":"95 - 105"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5000,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Latvian Journal of Physics and Technical Sciences","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2478/lpts-2023-0048","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"PHYSICS, APPLIED","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract It is almost impossible to name a field of human activity where porous materials are not used. Filters, membranes, thermal insulators, fuel cells, catalysts, wicks of heat transfer devices, sorbents, textiles, and other examples of porous materials explain such an increased interest in the study of their properties, design of new materials, and development of technologies for their manufacture. The recent need for in-orbit spacecraft refuelling has led to the development of gas thermal compression technology based on the use of porous material as both a fuel retention mechanism and thermal interface. The present paper reveals the thermal aspects of porous material design for a device intended for pumping xenon, fuel for ion thrusters, in zero-gravity conditions – Xenon Refuelling Compressor.
期刊介绍:
Latvian Journal of Physics and Technical Sciences (Latvijas Fizikas un Tehnisko Zinātņu Žurnāls) publishes experimental and theoretical papers containing results not published previously and review articles. Its scope includes Energy and Power, Energy Engineering, Energy Policy and Economics, Physical Sciences, Physics and Applied Physics in Engineering, Astronomy and Spectroscopy.