Safe Affordable Fission Engine- (SAFE-) 100a Heat Exchanger Thermal and Structural Analysis

NASA/TM-2005-213609, Steeve, B.E., Safe Affordable Fission Engine- (SAFE-) 100a Heat Exchanger
Thermal and Structural Analysis, George C. Marshall Space Flight Center , Marshall Space Flight Center, AL 35812, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington, DC 20546-0001, March 2005, pp. 48, Format(s): PDF 7525k

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A potential fission power system for in-space missions is a heat pipe-cooled reactor coupled to a Brayton cycle. In this system, a heat exchanger (HX) transfers the heat of the reactor core to the Brayton gas. The Safe Affordable Fission Engine- (SAFE-) 100a is a test program designed to thermally and hydraulically simulate a 95 Btu/s prototypic heat pipe-cooled reactor using electrical resistance heaters on the ground. This Technical Memorandum documents the thermal and structural assessment of the HX used in the SAFE-100a program.

Keywords:	heat exchanger, stress analysis, thermal analysis
Subjects:	Engineering: Structural Mechanics
ID Code:	694
Deposited On:	25 April 2005

Safe Affordable Fission Engine- (SAFE-) 100a Heat ExchangerThermal and Structural Analysis

Safe Affordable Fission Engine- (SAFE-) 100a Heat Exchanger
Thermal and Structural Analysis