Publication Date:
2019-07-12
Description:
Pair of counterrotating turbopumps mounted back to back in novel one-piece volute housing. Serves as spool piece into which pumps inserted, one from each end. Includes turbine inlet and outlet volutes. Enables easy replacement of each pump/turbine assembly. Designed to provide fuel and oxidizer to rocket engine at high pressures; modified versions useful in providing other two-fluid high-pressure flows or redundant high-pressure flow of single fluid.
Keywords:
MACHINERY
Type:
MFS-28349
,
NASA Tech Briefs (ISSN 0145-319X); 14; 5; P. 76
Format:
text
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