Power Input Prediction in Agitated Gas‐Liquid Contactors with Non‐coalescent Batch

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (12) ◽  
pp. 2673-2680
Author(s):  
Tomáš Kracík ◽  
Tomáš Moucha ◽  
Radim Petříček
Keyword(s):  
Power Input ◽  
Input Prediction

A review of high-power magnetoplasmodynamic electric propulsion designs and studies of RSC Energia

2020 ◽  
pp. 112-133
Author(s):  
Victor V. SINYAVSKIY
Keyword(s):  
Service Life ◽  
Electric Power ◽  
High Power ◽  
Electric Propulsion ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Materials Science ◽  
Low Voltage ◽  
Power Input ◽  
Design Bureau ◽  
Rocket Propulsion

At the initiative of S.P.Korolev, in 1959, Special Design Bureau No.1 (now RSC Energia) established the High-temperature Power Engineering and Electric Propulsion Center which was tasked with development of nuclear electric propulsion for heavy interplanetary vehicles. Selected as the source of electric power was a nuclear power unit based on a thermionic converter reactor, and selected as the engine was a stationary low-voltage magnetoplasmodynamic (MPD) high-power (0.5–1.0 MW) thruster which had thousands of hours of service life. The paper presents the results of extensive efforts in research, development, design, materials science experiments, and tests on the MPD-thruster, including the results of development and 500-hours life tests of an MPD-thruster with a 500-600 kW electric power input that used lithium propellant. The world’s first lithium 17 kW MPD-thruster was built and successfully tested in space. The paper points out that to this day nobody has surpassed the then achievements of RSC Energia neither in thruster output during long steady-state operation, nor in performance and service life. Key words: Martian expeditionary vehicle, nuclear electric rocket propulsion system, electric rocket thruster, magnetoplasmodynamic thruster, lithium, cathode, anode, barium, electric propulsion tests in space.

Power input of screw rotors and agitators: Theory of calculation of power input of screw rotors

1989 ◽  
Vol 54 (6) ◽  
pp. 1575-1588 ◽  
Author(s):  
František Rieger
Keyword(s):  
Power Input ◽  
Screw Rotors

A method has been proposed of the calculation of screw rotors. The calculation starts from the equation for the power input for the flow between two plates corrected by correction coefficients.

Free Level Effect on the Impeller Power Input in Baffled Tanks

1995 ◽  
Vol 60 (8) ◽  
pp. 1274-1280 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kamil Wichterle
Keyword(s):  
Reynolds Number ◽  
Power Input ◽  
Dimensionless Number ◽  
Simple Correlation ◽  
Mixture Density ◽  
Surface Aeration ◽  
Free Level ◽  
High Reynolds ◽  
Level Effect ◽  
Turbine Impeller

Analysis of extended data on turbine impeller power input in geometrically similar agitated baffled tanks shows that the power number Po is a function of Reynolds number Po = Po*(Re) until the emergence of surface aeration. Though it is usually anticipated that Po* = const in high Reynolds number region, some, whatever weak, function should be taken into consideration in more detailed analysis of the power data even here. In practice, disturbances of level and gas captured in the impeller region play also a significant role, namely in smaller tanks at higher impeller speeds. Decrease of power input can be explained by decrease of gas-liquid mixture density, or in other words by increase of efficient gas holdup eE just in the impeller region. The value eE defined by the relation Po = Po*(Re)/(1 + eE) was determined from the available data. Like other effects of the surface aeration it depends mainly on the dimensionless number Nc = (We Fr)1/4. A simple correlation eE (Nc) is suggested as a correction factor for prediction of impeller power in presence of gas capture.

Surface Aeration Threshold in Agitated Vessels

1996 ◽  
Vol 61 (5) ◽  
pp. 681-690
Author(s):  
Kamil Wichterle ◽  
Tomáš Svěrák
Keyword(s):  
Simple Model ◽  
Liquid Surface ◽  
Power Input ◽  
Power Number ◽  
Region Analysis ◽  
Surface Aeration ◽  
Liquid Dispersion ◽  
Mixing Vessels ◽  
Number Curve

Violent agitation of liquids in mixing vessels may result in the regime of surface aeration being attained when the bubbles formed at the liquid surface enter the impeller region. Analysis of data on surface aeration for different liquids in a set of geometrically similar agitated vessels is presented. Data on the just aerated state as observed visually in transparent liquids, and data for the efficient aeration as determined from the break on the power number curve are considered. A simple model is developed for correlation of the data which enables the threshold of aeration to be predicted from the value of the recirculation number Nc = Nd (ρ/σg)1/4. The possibility of interpreting various literature data for the aeration threshold and for the power input with use of Nc is demonstrated. Similar modelling rules hold also for the correlation of beginning of the efficient liquid-liquid dispersion.

Control Strategies for Semi-Active Lorry Suspensions

1996 ◽  
Vol 210 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
D Cebon ◽  
F H Besinger ◽  
D J Cole
Keyword(s):  
Linear Models ◽  
Control Strategies ◽  
Power Input ◽  
Optimum Level ◽  
Passive Damping ◽  
Control Laws ◽  
Body Acceleration ◽  
Performance Improvements ◽  
Full State Feedback ◽  
Active Damper

The optimum level of passive damping for minimizing the root mean square (r.m.s.) dynamic tyre force and r.m.s. body acceleration of a heavy vehicle is determined by testing a damper in a ‘hardware-in-the-loop’ (HiL) test rig. Two different control strategies [‘modified skyhook damping’ (MSD), and linear optimal control with full state feedback (FSF)] are investigated theoretically using linear models, and suspension force control laws are derived. These control laws, along with simple ‘on–off’ control, are then tested experimentally using a prototype semi-active damper which is controlled so as to follow the demanded force, except when power input is required. The achievable performance improvements are compared and differences between the linear theory, computer simulations and experimental performance are discussed. It is found that using FSF control, r.m.s. body acceleration and r.m.s. tyre force can be reduced simultaneously by 28 and 21 per cent of their values for optimal passive damping.

scholarly journals The Development of a Space Climatology: 2. The Distribution of Power Input Into the Magnetosphere on a 3‐Hourly Timescale

Space Weather ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 157-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mike Lockwood ◽  
Sarah N. Bentley ◽  
Mathew J. Owens ◽  
Luke A. Barnard ◽  
Chris J. Scott ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Power Input ◽  
Distribution Of Power
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