Cryo-Tracker Level Temperature and Mass Gauging Fluid Sensors
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Cryo-Tracker Level, Temperature,and Mass Gauging Fluid Sensors
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Behavior of Sub-cooled Propellants in Room Temp.Fig: Liquid Nitrogen unloaded from a small a Dewar Flask to a bucket in a laboratory.
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Dewar FlaskFig: A 25 l liquid nitrogen laboratory Dewar flask.Inner wall linings are silvered to reduce heat leakage.
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Flexible Sensing Probe Probe is made of series of polyimide layers of thickness 0.0254 mm.Rakes made of stainless steel tubing, wire, and phenolic insulators weigh (6.70 g/cm).
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Internal Structure of Cryo-Tracker Silicon diode sensors incorporated with the probe.Conductor Traces which constitute the rake of the temp- element
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Installed Cryo-Tracker Probe Cryo-Tracker probe 60 ft. long. 2.5 cm wide. containing 26 silicon diode sensors.Its weight is less than 0.59 kg.
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Stratification of Sub-cooled Propellants The heat leak causes the propellant to warm and stratify due to natural buoyancy forces.
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Cryo-Tracker Initially designed for incorporating in the propellant vessels of reusable launch vehicles.
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Purpose of Cryo-TrackerFor knowing the amount of propellant loaded in.For knowing the liquid & ullage temperature.For knowing liquid level.
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Mass Gauging MethodThe entire liquid and ullage temperature profile is first obtained.Tank pressure can then be used to calculate a liquid density profile. Liquid density profile is integrated over the known tank volume.
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Dual-Purpose Probe. Temperature measured using silicon diode sensors. Liquid level detection accuracy is a function of the sensor spacing. For 12 inch sensor spacing, the overall liquid level accuracy is 6 inches.
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PerformanceConsistent thermal response can be seen between the sensing elements in a dual-element probe when its thermal-cycled in liquid nitrogen.
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Hot-Fire Test (anomaly condition) The probe is also capable of measuring transient fluid temperature changes.Figure : Tracking the rapid change in liquid oxygen temperature when warm gases injected into the tank mixed the contents.
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Advantages of Cryo-TrackerOperating CostsAccuracyReliabilitySafetyEfficiencyScalabilityFlexibility
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Commercial ApplicationsCryogenic storage and transport tanksHome oxygen vessels Medevac helicopter and military field hospital oxygen-generating systemsAutomobiles running on liquid hydrogen or liqufied natural gas