New Methods of Solving of the Problem of Degassing Liquid Fuel and Special Liquids in Spacecraft

Abstract

The degassing of liquid fuel and special liquids in spacecraft plays an important and sometimes critical role in the workability of a spacecraft and in the life of astronauts in the space flight conditions. The paper presents the developed methods of degassing liquid fuel or special liquids, which permit to solve the problem of degassing liquid fuel in the fuel tank of a rocket engine and special liquids in the life support system of spacecraft using controlled vibration or a specially created temperature gradient in a liquid, structurally simple, economically highly efficient and productive, mobile, can be used in any blocks of power supply and life support systems of spacecraft for operation both in terrestrial conditions and in space flight conditions. The developed methods of degassing can also be successfully used for degassing crystalline solutions in the process of growing unique crystals in space flight conditions.

Keywords: Controlled vibration; Degassing of liquid fuel in the fuel tank of a rocket engine; Degassing of special liquids in the life support system of spacecraft; power supply, Specially created temperature gradient in a liquid; Weightlessness.