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Investigations into the thermal performance of multilayer insulation (300-77 K) Part 1: Calorimetric studies
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In this article, the thermal performance of multilayer insulation (MLI) consisting of double aluminized Mylar radiation shields and nylon net thermal spacers was evaluated using a double guarded cylindrical calorimeter and a tank-calorimeter over the temperature range 300-77 K. The degradation in effective thermal conductivity of MLI was evaluated to be 1.68 using the calorimeters.About:
This article is published in Cryogenics.The article was published on 1992-01-01. It has received 32 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Multi-layer insulation & Thermal insulation.read more
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A long duration cryostat suitable for balloon borne photometry
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe a 4 He cryostat suitable for cooling a large multiband bolometric photometer for mm-waves, which has two large optical windows and a hold time longer than 2 weeks.
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Cylindrical cryogenic calorimeter testing of six types of multilayer insulation systems
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors performed extensive thermal testing of more than 100 different multilayer insulation (MLI) specimens for the research and development of evacuated reflective thermal insulation systems and selected 26 MLI systems plus several vacuum-only systems for analysis and comparison.
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Temperature-stabilized medicinal storage systems
Roderick A. Hyde,Edward K. Y. Jung,Nathan P. Myhrvold,Clarence T. Tegreene,William Gates,Charles Whitmer,Lowell L. Wood +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, an integrally thermally sealed medicinal storage container may include one or more segments of at least one ultra efficient insulation material, the segments having one or several surface regions, the one or two segments principally defining at least a storage region, and one or three regions of substantially sealed connections between them.
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Temperature-stabilized storage systems
Fong-Li Chou,Geoffrey F. Deane,Lawrence Morgan Fowler,William Gates,Zihong Guo,Jennifer Ezu Hu,Roderick A. Hyde,Edward K. Y. Jung,Jordin T. Kare,Nathan P. Myhrvold,Nathan Pegram,Nels R. Peterson,Clarence T. Tegreene,Charles Whitmer,Lowell L. Wood +14 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a system that includes at least one substantially thermally sealed storage container, including an outer assembly including one or more sections of ultra efficient insulation material substantially defining at least 1/3 of the storage region.
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Temperature-stabilized storage systems configured for storage and stabilization of modular units
Geoffrey F. Deane,Lawrence Morgan Fowler,William Gates,Jenny Ezu Hu,Roderick A. Hyde,Edward K. Y. Jung,Jordin T. Kare,Mark K. Kuiper,Nathan P. Myhrvold,Nathan Pegram,Nels R. Peterson,Clarence T. Tegreene,Mike Vilhauer,Charles Whitmer,Lowell L. Wood,Ozgur Emek Yildirim +15 more
TL;DR: In this article, an apparatus for use with substantially thermally sealed storage containers is described, consisting of a stored material module, a stabilizer unit, a storing material module cap, and a central stabilizer.
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Development of multilayer insulations with thermal conductivities below 0.1 0.1 μW cm -1 K -1
R.G. Scurlock,B. Saull +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a significant improvement in the performance of evacuated multilayer insulations can be achieved by incorporating getter materials such as activated carbon in the spacer material, without the need for elaborate vacuum bake-out procedures.
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Experimental investigations of multilayer insulation
TL;DR: In this paper, an experimental investigation has been carried out on a few indigenous multilayer insulation (MLI) materials, centred on the influence of the number of layers and layer density, with the cold boundary at the same temperature as liquid nitrogen.
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Heat flux from 277 to 77 K through a few layers of multilayer insulation
Q.S. Shu,R.W. Fast,H.L. Hart +2 more
TL;DR: In this article, the performance of a multilayer insulation (MLI) system, consisting of a few layers on an aluminium taped 77 K surface, was investigated to understand quantitatively how thermal performance changes with the number of multilayers and vacuum level.
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Thermal Performance of Multilayer Insulation Applied to Small Cryogenic Tankage
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared a number of tank calorimeter results with values based on flat-plate data and showed that the effective insulation conductivity observed for most tank wraps is greater than the measured flatplate value due to effects of corner compression, degradation at penetrations and application technique.
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Effects of Compressive Loads on the Heat Flux Through Multilayer Insulations
I. A. Black,P. E. Glaser +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of compression on the heat flux of 15 multilayer insulations was investigated and the results showed that the increase in heat flux after a compressive load of 2 psi has been reached is of comparable magnitude for all insulations tested.