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How do you water cool a steel plate under a rocket without the coolant instantly vaporizing and blowing up the plate?
by sschueller 4y ago
How do you water cool a steel plate under a rocket without the coolant instantly vaporizing and blowing up the plate?
- lostlogin 4y agoThey’ll need pumps bigger than the rocket’s fuel pumps.
- George83728 4y agoNah, just some water towers. You can fill the water towers slowly using small pumps, then drain them quick using gravity.
- krisoft 4y ago> instantly vaporizing and blowing up the plate It sounds like you are thinking about the water coolant being in or behind the steel plate. But if you pump water on top of the steel plate there it can instantly vaporize without blowing up anything. If you have sufficient flow then that can keep the steel plate from melting.
- apendleton 4y agoIn the Spaces thing, he described it as being like an upside-down shower head, and to expect lots of steam billowing out during launch instead of dust, so I don't think it's a closed system.
- TheSpiceIsLife 4y agoNASA Kennedy launchpad deluged test https://youtu.be/LNkmwrTjKuo https://youtu.be/LNkmwrTjKuo
- George83728 4y agoThat flow is even bigger than it looks, seriously impressive. > The IOP/SS peak flow rate is 1.1 million gallons per minute, high enough to empty roughly two Olympic-size swimming pools in one minute. https://www.nasa.gov/content/launch-pad-39b https://www.nasa.gov/content/launch-pad-39b
- TheSpiceIsLife 4y ago4.16 mega litres a minute. Must be some fair old pumps on that setup!