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A flight experiment to test the operation of an Electronic Nose developed and built at JPL and Caltech was done aboard STS-95 in October-November, 1998.
The Alyeska Pipeline Service Company (Alyeska) operates the 1290 kilometer-long Trans Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS).
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Applications of metallic films on sodium beta-alumina solid electrolyte (BASE) ceramic in technology for the alkali metal thermal to electric converter (AMTEC) include both electrode and metallization functions.
AMTEC cells are under development as power resources for future outer planetary robotic space missions, where they must operate for very long times.
This paper reports several slow reversible and quasi-reversible processes which occur in the porous electrode/solid electrolyte combination at AMTEC operating temperatures.
A miniature electronic nose in which the sensing media are insulating polymers loaded with carbon black as a conductive medium has been designed and built at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
The results of several experiments in which TiN electrodes have been studied at 1120-1200 K are described here.
The lifetime of three types of AMTEC electrodes is predicted from the rate of grain growth in the electrode.
A critical component of alkali metal thermal-to electric converter (AMTEC) devices for long duration space missions is the sodium beta-alumina solid electrolyte ceramic (BASE), for which there exists no substitute.