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Turbopump thermodynamic cooling

System for cooling turbopumps used in cryogenic fluid storage facilities is described. Technique uses thermodynamic propellant vent to intercept pump heat at desired conditions. Cooling system uses hydrogen from outside source or residual hydrogen from cryogenic storage tank.

Patten, T. C.↗

Correlation of Apollo oxygen tank thermodynamic performance predictions

Parameters necessary to analyze the stratified performance of the Apollo oxygen tanks include g levels, tank elasticity, flow rates and pressurized volumes. Methods for estimating g levels and flow rates from flight plans prior to flight, and from quidance and system data for use in the post flight analysis are described. Equilibrium thermodynamic equations are developed for the effects of tank elasticity and pressurized volumes on the tank pressure response and their relative magnitudes are discussed. Correlations of tank pressures and heater temperatures from flight data with the results of a stratification model are shown. Heater temperatures were also estimated with empirical heat transfer agreement with flight data when fluid properties were averaged rather than evaluated at the mean film temperature.

Patterson, H. W.↗

Thermodynamic and fluid-dynamic concepts

Some of the fundamental concepts of thermodynamics and compressible fluid mechanics are reviewed. The concepts treated are those that are considered necessary to analyze the flow and energy transfer processes occurring in a turbine.

Glassman, A. J.↗

Energy in the environment and the second law of thermodynamics

The relationship between the consumption of energy by technological cultures and the second law of thermodynamics is discussed. The analysis is based on a description of the operation of a mechanical device which consumes energy. It is concluded that the flow of energy in manifold spontaneous conditions, which play a vital role in the operation of any technological process, remove most of the energy flow path from the control of the operator. It is stated that the increased efficiency of a process can benefit the environment only as much as this efficiency enables the total energy input to be reduced for a given level of production and increasing efficiency cannot meet the problems of an increased rate of energy utilization.

Mueller, R. F.↗

Examination of two methods of describing the thermodynamic properties of oxygen near the critical point

A computer study was conducted to compare the numerical behavior of two approaches to describing the thermodynamic properties of oxygen near the critical point. Data on the relative differences between values of specific heats at constant pressure (sub p) density, and isotherm and isochor derivatives of the equation of state are presented for selected supercritical pressures at temperatures in the range 100 to 300 K. The results of a more detailed study of the sub p representations afforded by the two methods are also presented.

Rees, T. H.↗

The thermodynamic properties of oxygen and nitrogen

The development of a single equation of state for oxygen and nitrogen based on the thermodynamic properties of the gases is described. The coefficients of the equation of state were determined by simultaneous least squares fits to values of isochoric heat capacity and saturation density values used to define the criteria for phase equilibrium. Tables of data for the conditions of both gases are included.

Stewart, R. B.↗

Thermodynamic properties of carbon in b.c.c. and f.c.c. iron-silicon-carbon solid solutions.

The equilibrium between hydrogen-methane gas mixtures and Fe-Si-C solid solutions has been investigated both as a function of temperature and carburizing gas composition. The thermodynamic properties of the carbon atoms in both b.c.c. and f.c.c. solid solution have been derived from the equilibrium measurements. The results found have been compared with those of earlier investigations and with the predictions of recent theoretical models on ternary solid solutions containing both substitutional and interstitial solute atoms.

Chraska, P.↗