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High thermal power density heat transfer

Author
Morris, J. F.
Published
Oct 30, 1980.
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Summary
Heat from a high temperature heat pipe is transferred through a vacuum or a gap filled with electrically nonconducting gas to a cooler heat pipe. The heat pipe is used to cool the nuclear reactor while the heat pipe is connected thermally and electrically to a thermionic converter. If the receiver requires greater thermal power density, geometries are used with larger heat pipe areas for transmitting and receiving energy than the area for conducting the heat to the thermionic converter. In this way the heat pipe capability for increasing thermal power densities compensates for the comparatively low thermal power densities through the electrically non-conducting gap between the two heat pipes.
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NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) Collection.
Note
Document ID: 19820003526.
Accession ID: 82N11399.
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