航空宇宙技術
Online ISSN : 1884-0477
ISSN-L : 1884-0477
IKAROS型気液平衡推進薬タンクの微小重力実験による性能評価
元岡 範純山本 高行森 治岡野 仁庸石田 大二郎山田 啓介岸野 義宏
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2012 年 11 巻 p. 123-129

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The performance of tank devices, such as porous metals and a metal fiber, on liquid propellant retention was evaluated under microgravity environment. IKAROS carries the gas-liquid equilibrium propulsion system which stores propellant as liquid phase in a storage tank and expels only gaseous propellant from the tank. Surface tension in pores of tank devices holds liquid propellant in them. As a result of microgravity experiments, it was found that the performance on liquid retention is higher than that estimated from results of bubble point experiment, and it strongly depends on the existence of bubbles in liquid propellant. From the results of the experiment, this paper proposes the location of porous metals in the storage tank to prevent bubbles from remaining with propellant consumption.

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© 2012 The Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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