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WANG Lei, LI Yan-zhong, MA Yuan, XU Meng-jian. Investigation on acquisition schemes of cryogenic propellant subcooling for long-term on-orbit storage[J]. Journal of Aerospace Power, 2015, 30(11): 2794-2802. doi: 10.13224/j.cnki.jasp.2015.11.030
Citation: WANG Lei, LI Yan-zhong, MA Yuan, XU Meng-jian. Investigation on acquisition schemes of cryogenic propellant subcooling for long-term on-orbit storage[J]. Journal of Aerospace Power, 2015, 30(11): 2794-2802. doi: 10.13224/j.cnki.jasp.2015.11.030

Investigation on acquisition schemes of cryogenic propellant subcooling for long-term on-orbit storage

doi: 10.13224/j.cnki.jasp.2015.11.030
  • Received Date: 2014-04-16
  • Publish Date: 2015-11-28
  • Increasing cryogenic propellant subcooling remarkably benefits the long-term on-orbit storage of cryogenic fuels. Literature research and theoretical analysis were conducted to study the working processes and research status for four subcooling schemes, and their advantages and disadvantages were also analyzed. On this basis, a research approach in this field was proposed for guiding the domestic researches. Several valuable conclusions were drawn as follows: (1) Based on the cost consideration, an operating procedure for subcooling operation after fuel filling process is suggested and the subcooling equipment should be located close to the target tank.(2) A liquid nitrogen pool boiling can be used to cool the cryogenic liquid oxygen and liquid methane.(3) Helium injection approach is only suggested to cool the small-scale liquid hydrogen since it costs massive helium gas.(4) Due to excellent characteristics including less total weight and energy input, thermodynamic cryogen subcooler (TCS) approach has a better application prospect in liquid hydrogen subcooling obtainment. This research provides a reference for the domestic researches of cryogenic propellant subcooling.

     

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