Aerospace
Technical Paper

Thermal Test of the Active Fluidic Cooling Unit of ATV

2003-01-2422

07/07/2003

Event
International Conference On Environmental Systems
Authors
P. Vincent EADS Launch Vehicles, France
L. Rochas EADS Launch Vehicles, France
P. Menut EADS Launch Vehicles, France
J. A. Romera-Perez ESA-ESTEC, The Netherlands
Abstract
Content
The Equipped Avionics Bay of the Automated Transfer Vehicle is thermally controlled by means of ten Active Fluidic Cooling Units (AFCU), each of them being composed of four Variable Conductance Heat Pipes (VCHP).
In spring 2002, a thermal test in vacuum chamber has been performed with one AFCU subsystem. The objectives were:
  • To characterize the thermal behavior
  • To tune the control architecture
  • To validate the AFCU modeling
This paper deals with the set-up, the means and the sequence implemented for this test and the main results obtained from test measurements and exploitation.
Meta Tags
Topics
Pipes and ducts
Thermal testing
Automated Vehicles
Conductivity
Avionics
Springs
Simulation and modeling
Affiliated or Co-Author
EADS Launch Vehicles, France
ESA-ESTEC, The Netherlands
Details
DOI
https://doi.org/10.4271/2003-01-2422
Pages
10
Citation
Vincent, P., Rochas, L., Menut, P., and Romera-Perez, J., "Thermal Test of the Active Fluidic Cooling Unit of ATV," SAE Technical Paper 2003-01-2422, 2003, https://doi.org/10.4271/2003-01-2422.
Additional Details
Publisher
SAE International
Published
Jul 7, 2003
Product Code
2003-01-2422
Content Type
Technical Paper
Language
English