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Variable Conductance Heat Pipe Cooling of Stirling Convertor and General Purpose Heat Source
2013
11th International Energy Conversion Engineering Conference
unpublished
In a Stirling Radioisotope Power System (RPS), heat must be continuously removed from the General Purpose Heat Source (GPHS) modules to maintain the modules and surrounding insulation at acceptable temperatures. The Stirling convertor normally provides this cooling. If the Stirling convertor stops in the current system, the insulation is designed to spoil, preventing damage to the GPHS at the cost of an early termination of the mission. An alkali-metal Variable Conductance Heat Pipe (VCHP) can
doi:10.2514/6.2013-3663
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