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Performance Characteristics of the Space Station Avionics Air Cooling Package
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The Avionics Air Assembly Cooling Package which provides cooling for high heat load racks aboard the International Space Station has been designed and developed to balance challenging requirements for noise emissions, emitted vibrations, power usage, weight, and volume. The assembly consists of a high speed selectable flow fan, a compact air-to-water heat exchanger, noise attenuation components, motor controller electronics, and mounting structure. This paper addresses the final hardware configuration and performance characteristics and the successful development program that was required to create the first qualification/flight assembly. It describes the initial component development hardware performance, the initial package integration results, the completed optimization effort, and the final package performance. These optimization cycles, both to improve and reduce component performance, were necessary to attain the desired package results from this highly integrated assembly.
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Nason, R. and Heldmann, M., "Performance Characteristics of the Space Station Avionics Air Cooling Package," SAE Technical Paper 961352, 1996, https://doi.org/10.4271/961352.Also In
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- O'Connor, E. Nason R. Rubalcaba D. Klym J. “Space Station Distributed Avionics Air Cooling” SAE Paper 941493 24th International Conference on Environmental Systems Friedrichshafen, Germany June 20 - 23 1994
- O'Connor, E. “Space Vehicle Fan Package Acoustic Characteristics” SAE Paper 951647 25th International Conference on Environmental Systems San Diego, California July 10 - 13 1995