Fluent material handling – with receiver or receiver coacting mea – With siphon flow control by equalized levels
Patent
1990-12-14
1992-05-12
Recla, Henry J.
Fluent material handling, with receiver or receiver coacting mea
With siphon flow control by equalized levels
141 31, 141 65, 137574, 222394, 220566, 220500, 220 412, B65B 304, B65B 104
Patent
active
051118564
ABSTRACT:
A liquid and gas tank is provided for operation, in particular, in satellites subject to low acceleration, that utilizes a separation force produced by surface tension to collect liquid in a privileged zone of the tank without allowing gas to escape via the privileged zone. The tank includes an outer first shell element having a curvilinear shape, and having at one end a surface portion S of radius of curvature r which is concave on a side that contacts liquid. The tank also includes an inner second shell element fixed to the first element, being convex in shape on a side that contacts liquid, and curvilinear in shape and including a surface portion S' having a part which is slightly inclined relative to the surface portion S in the privileged zone forming a narrowest zone between the surface portions S and S', the surface portion S' having a radius of curvature r' which is less than the radius of curvature r, wherein liquid is urged into the narrowest zone due to a capillary effect. The tank further includes at least one liquid drawing-off element opening out into the narrowest zone lying between the surface portions S and S'.
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Kupferschmid Keith
Recla Henry J.
Societe Europeenne de Propulsion
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