Demonstration of a Passive Thermal Management System for Cooling Electronics in Extreme Environments
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AbstractExtended operation of exploratory systems on the surface of planets like Venus, means that techniques to cool system electronics to essentially room temperature (30ÂºC) while the ambient temperature is over 470ÂºC must be developed and demonstrated. This proposal discloses a patent-pending passive thermal management system (TMS) capable of providing electronic system cooling at 30ÂºC, while rejecting heat to ambient temperatures above 500ÂºC. This Phase I effort includes performance demonstration experiments in a representative thermal environment. These experiments will demonstrate a TMS system with a system mass of less than 0.22 kg/W/day, that provides passive isothermal temperature control, with no moving parts.
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