Basic Model for Propellant Tank Ullage Calculation

추진제탱크 얼리지 해석을 위한 기본모델

  • Received : 2009.12.21
  • Accepted : 2010.07.01
  • Published : 2010.07.01

Abstract

Estimation of pressurant mass flowrate and its total mass required to maintain propellant tank pressure during propellant outflow is very important for design of pressurization control system and pressurant storage tank. Especially, more pressurant mass is required to maintain pressure in cryogenic propellant tank, because of reduced specific volume of pressurant due to heat transfer between pressurant and tank wall. So, basic model for propellant tank ullage calculation was proposed to estimate ullage and tank wall temperature distribution, required pressurant mass, and energy distribution of pressurant in ullage. Both test and theoretical analysis have been conducted, but only theoretical modeling method was addressed in this paper.

추진제가 배출되는 동안 추진제탱크를 적정 압력으로 유지하기 위해 필요한 가압가스의 질유량 및 총소모량을 파악하는 것은 가압제어시스템의 설계 및 가압제 저장탱크의 무게를 산출하는데 있어 매우 중요하다. 특히 극저온 추진제탱크의 경우 얼리지 내부의 가압가스는 외부와의 열전달에 의해 비체적이 감소하므로 더욱 많은 추진제탱크의 압력을 유지하기 위해 더 많은 가압가스를 필요로 한다. 이에 추진제탱크 얼리지 해석을 위한 기본모델을 만들어 얼리지 내부와 탱크벽면의 온도분포, 가압가스 소모량, 얼리지 내부에서 유입된 가압가스의 에너지 분포를 예측하였다. 현재 시험을 통한 프로그램의 수정보완이 진행되었으나, 본 자료에서는 기본적인 해석모델의 설명에 중점을 두었다.

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