Special Issue "Efficient Precooling of Cryogenic Propellant Filling System"
A special issue of Entropy (ISSN 1099-4300). This special issue belongs to the section "Thermodynamics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 November 2023 | Viewed by 78
Special Issue Editor
Interests: cryogenization; pool boiling; low-temperature gas-liquid two-phase flow and boiling heat transfer mechanism, technology and application research; aerospace low-temperature propulsion technology research; low-temperature flow and heat transfer law cfd simulation technology; hydrogen energy storage and transportation and key technologies
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Cryogenic fluids, including liquid nitrogen, liquid oxygen, liquid hydrogen, liquid helium, etc, are experiencing rapid growth in industrial applications, aerospace missions, and large scientific apparatuses. Owing to us living in a normal temperature environment, an evitable temperature decrease process will be experienced by the cryogenic facilities or by the transferring pipeline prior to them contacting the cryogenic fluids, and this process is usually defined as “cryogenic quenching” or “cryogenic chilldown”. For example, for a cryogenic propellant loading to rocket, the transferring pipeline must firstly be cooled down to the propellant temperature, after which fast propellant fueling can be executed. In a typical quenching operation, complex thermophysical evolutions could occur simultaneously, involving liquid-vapor phase change, two-phase flow pattern change, boiling mechanism evolution, thermophysical property variation, and so forth. To reach a fast-quenching purpose, the detailed two-phase flow properties inside the pipeline and the interior heat transfer mechanisms should be theoretically and experimentally investigated, and thus a new quenching scheme or technique could be proposed to accelerate the temperature decrease rate.
It is hoped that this Special Issue could be a forum for the presentation of new and improved quenching techniques for the cryogenic fluid filling system, as well as provide a fundamental understanding of the heat transfer mechanism for cryogenic fluids.
Dr. Lei Wang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- cryogenic fluid
- cryogenic quenching
- heat transfer mechanism
- two-phase flow
- heat transfer enhancement
