- Constant Conductance Heat Pipes
- Variable Conductance Heat Pipes
- Space Copper-Water Heat Pipes
- Loop Heat Pipes
- Space VPX
- Liquid Cooling
Advanced Technologies with Matching NASA Funding
Can enhanced thermal management in any of the following help your program?
- Deployable Radiators Links
- Localized high heat flux electronics
- High Power Density Hall Thrusters
- Reduced Survival Heat for Landers and Rovers
Learn more about these programs in the technical papers below.
Thermal Control Systems for Extreme Lunar Environments
Two-Phase Thermal Switch
A two-phase thermal switch is developed for thermal management of future lunar landers and rovers
Two-Phase Thermal Switch
Two-Phase Thermal Switch for Lunar Lander and Rover
Thermal Management
Thermal Management
hermal switches are among the passive thermal management
technologies that may be utilized for helping lunar vehicles survive the lunar night.
Two-Phase Thermal Switch Paper
technologies that may be utilized for helping lunar vehicles survive the lunar night.
Aluminum-Ammonia Screen Wick Heat Pipes for Lunar Surface Missions
Aluminum-ammonia heat pipes with screen wicks for operation on the lunar surface.
Aluminum-Ammonia Screen Wick Heat Pipes
Pulsating Heat Pipes for Modular Electronics Cooling
High performance heat spreader for thermal management
A two-phase heat spreader called the Pulsating Heat Pipe (PHP) heat spreader was developed as a superior alternative to conduction plates.
High Performance Heat Spreader
Pulsating heat pipe and embedded heat pipe heat spreaders
An ideal passive variable thermal
wo-phase-based heat spreaders are highly sought electronics cooling solutions due to their superior thermal performance over conventional conduction plates.
PHPs for Modular Electronics
wo-phase-based heat spreaders are highly sought electronics cooling solutions due to their superior thermal performance over conventional conduction plates.
Advanced Two-Phase Cooling System for Modular Power Electronics
More effective heat transfer devices and integrated cooling systems that can significantly reduce the overall thermal resistance from the semiconductors to the heat sink are highly desired.
Advanced Two-Phase Cooling System
Thermal Management for Lunar Ice Miners
Demonstration of ice extraction and ice collection system
The thermal management system
consists of two-principal components: 1. thermal corer and 2. volatile cold trap tank.
Ice Mining
consists of two-principal components: 1. thermal corer and 2. volatile cold trap tank.
Waste Heat-Based Thermal Corer for Lunar Ice Extraction
Thermal Management
Thermal Management
It has been demonstrated that water can be extracted from icy-soil through in-situ heating and then collected.
technologies that may be utilized for helping lunar vehicles survive the lunar night.
Waste Heat-Based Thermal Corer
technologies that may be utilized for helping lunar vehicles survive the lunar night.
Thermal Management System for Lunar Ice Miners
A dedicated thermal
management system (TMS) for future Lunar Ice Mining Rovers that are powered by the
radioisotope.
TMS for Lunar Ice Miners
management system (TMS) for future Lunar Ice Mining Rovers that are powered by the
radioisotope.
Thermal Management Using Warm Reservoir VCHPs
Hot Reservoir Variable Conductance Heat Pipe
Significantly tighter passive thermal
control than a regular VCHP with a cold-biased reservoir
consists of two-principal components: 1. thermal corer and 2. volatile cold trap tank.
Hot Reservoir VCHP
control than a regular VCHP with a cold-biased reservoir
consists of two-principal components: 1. thermal corer and 2. volatile cold trap tank.
Development of Flight Demonstration Hot Reservoir
VCHP for Microgravity Testing
VCHP for Microgravity Testing
An ideal passive variable thermal
link between the payloads and the radiator for such lunar landers since HR-VCHP can offer
much tighter thermal control capability
technologies that may be utilized for helping lunar vehicles survive the lunar night.
VCHP for Microgravity
link between the payloads and the radiator for such lunar landers since HR-VCHP can offer
much tighter thermal control capability
technologies that may be utilized for helping lunar vehicles survive the lunar night.
Compact Heat Rejection System Utilizing Integral Variable Conductance Planar Heat Pipe Radiator
A dedicated thermal
n order to meet heat rejection requirements for future NASA exploration, scientific, and discovery missions, a study is being conducted for the feasibility of integral variable conductance planar heat pipe (VCPHP) technology.
radioisotope.
Utilizing Integral Variable Conductance Planar Heat Pipe
n order to meet heat rejection requirements for future NASA exploration, scientific, and discovery missions, a study is being conducted for the feasibility of integral variable conductance planar heat pipe (VCPHP) technology.
radioisotope.
Hot Reservoir Variable Conductance Heat Pipe with Advanced Fluid Management
Significantly tighter passive thermal control than a regular VCHP with a cold-biased reservoir.
Hot Reservoir VCHP
Autonomous Melting Probe for Icy Planets
Thermal Concept for Planetary Ice Melting Probe
To support NASA future Ocean Worlds Exploration missions, ACT is developing an innovative thermal management concept for a
nuclear-powered ice melting probe.
Planetary Ice Melting Probe
nuclear-powered ice melting probe.
Autonomous Melting Probe for Icy
World Exploration
World Exploration
Advanced Cooling Technologies, Inc, (ACT) developed a thermal management concept
for the ice melting probe.
Melting Probe for Icy World Exploration
for the ice melting probe.
Status of Development of a Thermal Probe for Icy Planet Exploration – II
To support NASA’s future Ocean Worlds Exploration missions, Advanced Cooling Technologies, Inc. (ACT) is developing a thermal management concept for a radioisotope-powered ice melting probe.
Thermal Probe for Icy Planet Exploration
Phase Change Material (PCM) Vapor Chamber
Status of the Development of a Vapor Chamber with Phase
Change Material-Based Wick Structure
Change Material-Based Wick Structure
The Phase Change Material (PCM) vapor chamber is
based on similar principles, except that the design has been altered with innovative features
to support thermal storage requirements.
Vapor Chamber with PCM
based on similar principles, except that the design has been altered with innovative features
to support thermal storage requirements.
Development of a Heat Exchanger with Integrated Thermal
Storage for Spacecraft Thermal Management Applications
World Exploration
Storage for Spacecraft Thermal Management Applications
World Exploration
ACT has developed an innovative heat
exchanger that integrates phase change material (PCM) within a vapor chamber.
Heat Exchanger with Integrated Thermal Storage
exchanger that integrates phase change material (PCM) within a vapor chamber.
3D printed Loop Heat Pipes (LHP)
3D Printed Wicks for Loop Heat Pipes
Change Material-Based Wick Structure
Change Material-Based Wick Structure
The development of 3D printed wicks for loop heat pipes.
3D Printed Wicks for LHPs
Experiments on a Loop Heat Pipe with a 3D Printed
Evaporator
Evaporator
The construction and testing of a loop heat pipe with a 3D printed evaporator is described
in this paper.
3D Printed Evaporator
in this paper.
Progress on 3D Printed Loop Heat Pipes
ACT has
been developing Loop Heat Pipes with 3D printed evaporators in an effort to reduce
manufacturing costs and lead times by eliminating labor-intensive processes that are
otherwise involved in the fabrication of standard evaporators.
Progress on 3D Printed LHP
been developing Loop Heat Pipes with 3D printed evaporators in an effort to reduce
manufacturing costs and lead times by eliminating labor-intensive processes that are
otherwise involved in the fabrication of standard evaporators.
Development of a 3D Printed Loop Heat Pipe
The focus of this work is the development of a 3D printed LHP
evaporator using a direct metal laser sintering (DMLS) process to fabricate the primary wick.
Development of a 3D Printed LHP
evaporator using a direct metal laser sintering (DMLS) process to fabricate the primary wick.
Loop Heat Pipe Wick
Fabrication via Additive
Manufacturing
Fabrication via Additive
Manufacturing
By using additive manufacturing the cost of LHP
fabrication can be reduced
Loop Heat Pipe Wick Fabrication
fabrication can be reduced
