Magnetic Fluid Management (MFM)
Abstract
The difficult problem of cryogenic fluid handling in many aerospace applications in low gravity environments can be solved by employing a new magnetic fluid technology called magnetic fluid management (MFM). The innovative MFM technology has the potential to provide significant advancements over other technologies such as screens, vanes, porous plugs, and no-vent fill processes. MFM technology utilizes the magnetic properties of cryogenic fluids for phase separation. This enables new processes which greatly simplify many critical tasks now encountered, such as gas-free liquid transfer between cryogenic containers, liquid-free gas venting during storage, liquid-free gas venting during tank refill, and use of a self-regulating control system to maintain tank pressure during liquid expulsion.
- Publication:
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Sixth Microgravity Fluid Physics and Transport Phenomena Conference: Exposition Topical Areas 1-6, vol. 2
- Pub Date:
- November 2002
- Bibcode:
- 2002mfpt....2..107R
- Keywords:
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- Fluid Management;
- Magnetic Properties;
- Microgravity;
- Cryogenic Fluids;
- Cryogenic Fluid Storage;
- Computational Fluid Dynamics;
- Computerized Simulation;
- Fluid Flow;
- Magnetic Fields;
- Applications Programs (Computers);
- Ferrofluids;
- Flight Tests;
- Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics