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Edelstein, Fred

Publications and source records attributed to Edelstein, Fred.

9 records

NASA NTRS1994

Heat Pipe With Interrupted Slot

Newer version of heat pipe slot interrupted by plug or, if heat pipe is cast, by bridge of heat-pipe material cast integrally across groove. Small barrier assists in priming heat pipe. Vapor and noncondensible gas still accumulates in liquid channel at evaporator before or during startup, but barrier keeps liquid out of small part of slot at bubble. Dry part of slot allows bubble to escape into vapor channel, making room for liquid to move in during startup.

Brown, Richard F.↗

NASA NTRS1993

Interrupted monogroove slot

An interrupted monogroove slot in a heat pipe facilitates priming of the heat pipe under zero gravity conditions by preventing the monogroove slot from completely priming before the liquid channel is primed.

Brown, Richard F.↗

NASA NTRS1990

Trap For Noncondensable Gas In Heat-Transfer Fluid

Trap acts as scrubber by removing noncondensable gas as it is generated slowly or released by outgassing in vapor/liquid heat-transfer system. Includes tube of stainless steel or other poorly thermally conductive material attached to tap on top of main vapor line where vapor flows toward condenser. Sub-cooled liquid from outlet of condenser cools upper end of tube below vapor temperature.

Edelstein, Fred↗

NASA NTRS1990

Monogroove liquid heat exchanger

A liquid supply control is disclosed for a heat transfer system which transports heat by liquid-vapor phase change of a working fluid. An assembly (10) of monogroove heat pipe legs (15) can be operated automatically as either heat acquisition devices or heat discharge sources. The liquid channels (27) of the heat pipe legs (15) are connected to a reservoir (35) which is filled and drained by respective filling and draining valves (30, 32). Information from liquid level sensors (50, 51) on the reservoir (35) is combined (60) with temperature information (55) from the liquid heat exchanger (12) and temperature information (56) from the assembly vapor conduit (42) to regulate filling and draining of the reservoir (35), so that the reservoir (35) in turn serves the liquid supply/drain needs of the heat pipe legs (15), on demand, by passive capillary action (20, 28).

Brown, Richard F.↗

NASA NTRS1989

Heat Exchanger With Reservoir And Controls

Heat-pipe assembly operates as evaporator or as condenser. New heat exchanger incorporates important improvements over previous designs. By adding reservoir to primary loop, locating ultrasonic liquid-level sensors on reservoir rather than directly on one of heat pipes, and revising control logic, uneven distribution of flow among heat pipes and erroneous behavior of valves eliminated.

Brown, Richard F.↗

NASA NTRS1988

Pumped two-phase heat transfer loop

A pumped loop two-phase heat transfer system, operating at a nearly constant temperature throughout, includes several independently operating grooved capillary heat exchanger plates supplied with working fluid through independent flow modulation valves connected to a liquid supply line, a vapor line for collecting vapor from the heat exchangers, a condenser between the vapor and the liquid lines, and a fluid circulating pump between the condenser and the heat exchangers.

Edelstein, Fred↗

NASA NTRS1987

Monogroove cold plate

The coolant fluid evaporated in a compact heat absorbing panel utilizing monogroove heat pipes in a pumped two-phase system is replenished through a liquid inlet control valve under the control of an ultrasonic liquid presence detector which is connected to the panel. The detector maintains the desired liquid quantity in the panel's liquid coolant channels, thereby dynamically responding to varying heat loads.

Edelstein, Fred↗

NASA NTRS1987

Thermal test results of the two-phase thermal bus technology demonstration loop

A two-phase heat transport system, the Thermal Bus Technology Demonstrator, has been built and tested for NASA Johnson Space Center for application on Space Station. The loop is a separated two-phase system that uses evaporator flow control valves and liquid condenser flooding to achieve temperature control. Both ambient and thermal vacuum tests have been completed in NASA's Chamber A, initially using Freon-11 and then ammonia as the working fluid. Overall, the tests were quite successful, with the bus achieving all major test objectives, including operation at 19.5 kW and set points at 35 F (1.7 C), 70 F (21.1 C) and 104 F (40.0 C), load sharing, asymmetrical heating and isothermality around the loop. Low plate to vapor temperature drops were obtained for the monogroove cold plate using ammonia and are indicative of the high evaporative film coefficients obtainable with this design.

Edelstein, Fred↗

NASA NTRS1987

Pumped two-phase heat transfer loop

A pumped loop two-phase heat transfer system, operating at a nearly constant temperature throughout, includes a plurality of independently operating grooved capillary heat exchanger plates supplied with working fluid through independent flow modulation valves connected to a liquid supply line, a vapor line for collecting vapor from the heat exchangers, a condenser between the vapor and the liquid lines, and a fluid circulating pump between the condenser and the heat exchangers.

Edelstein, Fred↗