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Front Cover -- Functionality, Advancements and Industrial Applications of Heat Pipes -- Functionality, Advancements and Industrial Applications of Heat Pipes -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- About the author -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 -- Heat pipe infrastructure -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Basic principles of heat pipes and history -- 1.3 History -- 1.4 Description and types of heat pipes -- 1.5 Principles of operation -- 1.5.1 Container -- 1.5.2 Working fluid -- 1.5.3 Wick or capillary structure -- 1.5.4 Sintered powder -- 1.5.5 Grooved tube -- 1.5.6 Screen mesh |
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1.5.7 How the heat pipe is working -- 1.5.8 Heat pipe assemblies design guidelines -- 1.5.9 Orientation with respect to gravity -- 1.5.10 Temperature limits -- 1.5.11 Heat removal -- 1.5.12 Reliability -- 1.5.13 Forming or shaping -- 1.5.14 Effects of length and pipe diameter -- 1.5.15 Wick structures -- 1.6 Heat pipe operating ranges -- 1.7 Constraints -- 1.8 Lessons learned -- 1.9 Applications -- 1.10 Summary -- References -- 2 -- Application of heat pipe in industry -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Overview industrial application of heat pipes -- 2.2.1 Cooling of electronic components |
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2.2.2 Spacecraft -- 2.2.3 Energy conservation -- 2.2.4 Heat pipe driven heat exchanger (HPHX) -- 2.2.5 Preservation of permafrost -- 2.2.6 Snow melting and deicing -- 2.2.7 Heat pipe inserts for thermometer calibration -- 2.2.8 High-temperature heat pipe furnace -- 2.2.9 Miscellaneous heat pipe applications -- 2.3 Energy-dependent boundary equations -- 2.4 Heat pipe in space -- 2.4.1 Radioisotope systems -- 2.4.1.1 Ulysses -- 2.4.1.2 Galileo -- 2.4.1.3 Cassini-huygens -- 2.4.1.4 New Horizons -- 2.4.2 Fission systems: heat -- 2.4.3 Fission systems: propulsion |
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2.4.4 Nuclear thermionic technology development -- 2.4.4.1 Conductively coupled, multicell thermionic fuel element -- 2.4.4.2 Cylindrical inverted multicell -- 2.4.5 Potential space nuclear thermionic missions -- 2.4.6 Heat pipe power system -- 2.4.7 Space reactor power systems -- 2.4.7.1 Heat pipe operated mars exploration reactor (HOMER) -- 2.4.7.2 Heat pipe reactor HOMER-15 and Homer-25 designs -- 2.4.7.3 Heat pipe and fuel pins configuration -- 2.4.8 Stirling engine system -- 2.4.9 Heat pipe design -- 2.4.10 Nuclear reactor power system -- 2.4.11 Material choices |
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2.4.12 Safety considerations -- 2.4.13 Reactor control -- 2.4.14 Neutron shielding -- 2.4.15 Reactor sitting -- 2.4.16 Nuclear energy propulsion of aircraft (NEPA) -- 2.4.17 Project prometheus 2003 -- 2.4.18 Mars one mission -- 2.4.19 Kilopower reactor using stirling technology (KRUSTY) experiment -- 2.5 Space shuttle orbiter heat pipe applications -- 2.6 Heat pipe in electronics -- 2.6.1 Electronic and electrical equipment cooling -- 2.7 Heat pipe in defense and avionics -- 2.7.1 On the ground application -- 2.7.2 In the sea application -- 2.7.3 In the air application |
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Heat pipes.
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Caloducs.
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Heat pipes
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 0128198192 9780128198193 (OCoLC)1110486192 |
| ISBN |
9780128202227 (electronic bk.) |
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012820222X (electronic bk.) |
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9780128198193 |
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0128198192 |
| Standard No. |
AU@ 000067001778 |
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AU@ 000068133988 |
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UKMGB 019759492 |
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