Testability of the S‐prime thermionic power system
作者:
W. R. Determan,
V. P. Kolesnikov,
G. S. Mezheritsky,
V. Ya. Poupko,
I. N. Prilezhaeva,
A. N. Ryzhkov,
A. V. Zrodnikov,
期刊:
AIP Conference Proceedings
(AIP Available online 1995)
卷期:
Volume 324,
issue 1
页码: 211-216
ISSN:0094-243X
年代: 1995
DOI:10.1063/1.47168
出版商: AIP
数据来源: AIP
摘要:
The Thermionic Space Nuclear System Design and Technology Demonstration (TI‐SNPS) program requires a low‐risk, compact space nuclear power with a 5‐ to 40‐kWe scalability, high conversion efficiency and the potential for long life. The 40‐kWe S‐PRIME system uses conventional materials in a known operating environment and the multicell thermionic fuel element (TFE) technology database to produce a low‐risk approach to meeting the TI‐SNPS flight system requirements. This design approach limits the risks to four key areas: TFE performance and lifetime, TFE testability demonstration, hydrogen control, and radiator heat pipe performance. These areas require critical component testing reduce risks within the development program (Millset al.1993). A TFE testability critical component demonstration was one of the six demonstrations scheduled in the S‐PRIME Phase I Program. Multicell TFE testing techniques were pioneered in the countries of the former Soviet Union. The Institute of Physics and Power Engineering (IPPE) in Obninsk, Russia, a key S‐PRIME subcontractor, was tasked with reviewing this database and recommending the best technical approach for acceptance testing individual S‐PRIME TFEs and a network of TFEs in a reactor core assembly. IPPE developed (PPTE). Using the PPTF as a starting point, a 10‐step process is defined for acceptance testing the overall S‐PRIME power system, starting from the manufacturing process line for the individual TFEs to a final assembly and shipment of the power system to the launch site and its integration/checkout with the payload. © 1995American Institute of Physics
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