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Showing 1 to 20 of 152 for “"test facility"”.
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Small scaled reactive materials combustion test facility
… applications. Currently, reactive fragment tests involve high velocity (1-2 km/s), large caliber projectiles directed into blast chambers where overpressure is measured to quantify output. Unfortunately, these existing facilities suffer many issues including high cost per test, which limits …
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Test Facility for Laboratory Evaluation of Fusion Product Diagnostics
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Development of a virtual test facility for axial flow cooling fans
… their size, diameter sometimes exceeding 10 m, testing fans at full scale to estimate their performance is impractical. Traditionally, scaled down fan models are tested in compliance with testing standards, most notably ISO 5801. The test results are scaled up to the full-size fan using standard …
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The design of a combustion test facility for synthetic jet fuel research
… the design and construction of a combustion test facility for conducting synthetic jet fuel research. The primary intended focus of the facility was the investigation of ignition and combustion stability behaviour of various test fuels, ranging from commercial jet fuel to single component …
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Design and operation of a counter-rotating aspirated compressor blowdown test facility
… unique counter-rotating aspirated compressor was tested in a blowdown facility at the Gas Turbine Laboratory at MIT. The facility expanded on experience from previous blowdown turbine and blowdown compressor experiments. Advances in thermocouple and facility designs enabled efficiency estimates …
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The development of an acoustic levitation test facility for cloud physics research
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1990.
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Construction and operation of the VPI & SU high-speed turbomachinery test facility
… of the VPI&SU highspeed turbomachinery test facility is reported. Fuel, lubrication and hydraulic systems have been designed to meet the requirements of the drive engine (a free power turbine gas turbine engine) and the test compressor. An overspeed system for monitoring and control of …
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The development of a three-degree-of-freedom vibration control system test facility
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1994.
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SERPENT Modeling of the Transient Reactor Test Facility and Comparison with Measured Experimental Data
… addition to the need for accident tolerant fuels testing there is a rising demand for clean renewable energy and the design of many generation IV reactors to fill the role which will require testing of such reactors and their fuels. Calculations and simulations are vital for the development and …
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The design and engineering of a reactor test facility for thermal processing of biomass
… of a pressurised biomass gasification test facility. A detailed examination of the major elements within the plant has been undertaken in relation to specification of equipment, evaluation of options and final construction. The retrospective project assessment was developed from …
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Development of a CO2 Cooling Test Facility from the Vertex Locator Thermal Control System
… physics experiments, making their design and testing increasingly more important. The Detector Technologies (DT) group chose to reuse the hard ware from the VTCS after it was retired and convert it into a test facility for future detectors. This dissertation describes the analysis and redesign …
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Dynamic process modelling of the HPS2 solar thermal molten salt parabolic trough test facility
… implemented on a full scale CSP plant and little testing has been done to prove the technology. The HPS2 is a test facility aimed at testing the use of molten salt as a heat transfer fluid (HTF). This test facility, located in Evora Portugal, is being developed by an international consortium led …
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Modeling and simulation of The Transient Reactor Test Facility using modern neutron transport methods
The Transient Reactor Test Facility (TREAT) has regained the interest of the nuclear engineering community in recent years. While TREAT's design makes it uniquely suited to transient fuel testing, it also makes the reactor very challenging to model and simulate. In this thesis, we build a Monte …
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Development of a test facility to evaluate hot gas filtration characteristics of a candle filter
… failure of the filter.;A High Temperature Test facility (HTTF) was built to investigate the ash characteristics during surface regeneration at high temperatures. The system was capable of conducting surface regeneration tests of a single candle filter at temperatures up to 1500°F. The …
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Design, set up and commissioning of a test facility for smokeless rich diesel combustion research
… formulations on LTC, using a suitable engine test platform. The objective of this study was to design and set up a test apparatus capable of achieving LTC in a diesel research engine, that could subsequently be used to study LTC behaviour with different fuels. In addition, it was necessary to …
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Creating a rapid response design, assembly, integration, and test facility in a non-repetitive environment
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering; in conjunction with the Leaders for Manufacturing Program at MIT, 2002.
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