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Modular micropump fluidic systems: For system requiring ultrareliability, high performance and a compact design

Due to the ongoing miniaturization and increased performance of electronics devices alternative cooling methods are required, specifically mechanical pumping loops (MPL). Passive two-phase loop is not capable of cooling the ESA expected power densities up to 300 W/m2, pumped two-phase loops are forecasted to replace their passive counterparts. According to Lapensée et. al., “the most important component of a MPL is the pump and a pump failure directly results in MPL system failure, a reliable pump is therefore of vital importance". Wits et. al.

Ireland

ETD 2020-07-c

University of Limerick
High Performance metamaterial-based Smart and Flexible Optical Solar Reflectors / Hiper-OSR

The high-level objective of HIPER-OSR was to develop a new class of Optical Solar Reflectors (OSR) characterized by being smart and flexible, whereas:

Italy

ITI83

CENTRO RICERCHE ELETTRO...
Solar pumped cryocooler with electrical power recuperation

Solid state optical refrigeration is the only active cryocooling technique that is truly vribration free, due to absence of moving parts and mass transport, with significant potential for use in future space missions. However, the overall wallplug efficiency is still relatively low in current approaches. One alternative approach investigated here is using a solar pumped laser (SPL) to drive the optical cryocooling process. This approach could offer higher efficiency by eliminates two conversion losses.

The Netherlands

19-D-S-TEC-11 

Lumium
Battery-Less Low Temperature Avionics and System Study

Many types of science missions focus on Solar System targets with harsh thermal environments, such as Mars, the Moon, asteroids, comets, and other bodies at the fringes of the Solar System. Traditional spacecraft avionics rely on the storage of electrical energy in electrochemical systems (typically secondary batteries) for covering peak energy demands and periods where no electrical energy is generated (Lunar/Martian/cometary night, etc.).

Belgium

15/002

SPACE APPLICATIONS SERV...
Novel thermal energy storage and electricity generation for Moon exploration

One of the most critical points in the exploration of space beyond Earth orbit is the provision of systems which ensure the survival of both crew and technological assets, such as rovers an landers. The utilisation of the Moon, being the next logical step in implementing the global strategy for colonising the Solar System, is a focus of national and international space agencies.

Germany

15/041

Sonaca Space
Magnetic Field Perturbations by Thermo-Electric Effects

The technical activities covered in this project allowed the creation of several numerical tools that can predict the thermoelectric/thermomagnetic response to different thermal loading conditions, material properties (thermal and electrical) and geometrical configurations.

Several numerical studies were performed using both commercial and dedicated numerical analysis procedures for the assessment of the thermoelectric behaviour of simple geometries under specific thermal loading conditions.

Portugal

15/016-a

CRITICAL MATERIALS S.A.
High efficiency 150 K Joule-Thomson cryocooler with an ejector

There is an increasing need for ever smaller pulse-tube coolers. These coolers have the characteristics necessary for space applications because the absence of moving parts in the cold finger makes them extremely reliable and any induced vibrations are typically smaller and easier to control.

But these types of cooler are less efficient and have a lower power density. Typically, this is resolved by increasing their drive frequency, to reduce amplitudes and displacements, which means that the coolers are smaller

Netherlands

TRP-NP-4000114493

UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE

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