Advances in Cryogenic Engineering: Proceedings of the 1972. Cryogenic Engineering Conference. National Bureau of Standards. Boulder, Colorado. August 9–11, 1972

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
LNG—U. S. and Foreign Traffic—An Overview....Pages 1-8
Cryogenic Technology and Scaleup Problems of Very Large LNG Plants....Pages 9-26
Heat Transfer Problems in Liquefied Natural Gas Plants....Pages 27-31
Explosive Boiling of Liquefied Hydrocarbon/Water Systems....Pages 32-41
Coiled Tubular Heat Exchangers....Pages 42-51
Effects of Maldistribution on the Performance of Multistream, Multipassage Heat Exchangers....Pages 52-64
Combined Buoyancy and Flow Direction Effects on Saturated Boiling Critical Heat Flux in Liquid Nitrogen....Pages 65-72
Interpretation and Correlation of Deviations from a Hydrodynamic Channel Boiling Theory of Data on Nitrogen and Hydrogen in Forced and Free Flow Boiling....Pages 73-80
Cryogenic Thermal Stratification and Interfacial Phenomena for Heated Tanks During Prolonged Orbital Flight....Pages 81-91
Miniature Uranium Fuel Plates Cooled by Liquid Helium for Irradiation Damage Studies....Pages 92-95
Development Program for a Liquid Methane Heat Pipe....Pages 96-102
Heat Transfer in Microsphere Cryogenic Insulation....Pages 103-111
Analysis of Thermal Diffusivity Evaluation under Transient Conditions for Powder Insulations....Pages 112-117
Lateral Heat Transfer in Cryogenic Multilayer Insulation....Pages 118-123
An Analytical and Experimental Evaluation of Shadow Shields and Their Support Members....Pages 124-131
Liquid Flow Rates of Superfluid Helium II During Thermomechanical Pumping Through Porous Media....Pages 132-140
Helium Flow Through Filters....Pages 141-149
Choked Flow of Fluid Nitrogen with Emphasis on the Thermodynamic Critical Region....Pages 150-161
Geysering Inhibitor for Vertical Cryogenic Transfer Piping....Pages 162-169
The Tensile Properties of Aluminum Alloys Formed at Cryogenic Temperatures....Pages 170-174
Mechanical and Physical Properties of Several Advanced Metal-Matrix Composite Materials....Pages 175-183
Tensile Properties of Polyurethane and Polystyrene Foams from 76 to 300 K....Pages 184-193
Compressive Properties of Polyurethane and Polystyrene Foams from 76 to 300 K....Pages 194-201
Development of a Method for Direct Determination of Dew Point Loci of Methane-Heavier Hydrocarbon Mixtures at Low Temperatures and Elevated Pressures....Pages 202-207
Thermodynamic Properties of Propane: Vapor-Liquid Coexistence Curve....Pages 208-219
Thermodynamic Properties of Propane: PVT Surface and Corresponding Thermodynamic Properties....Pages 220-233
Cryogenic Thermal Properties from the UM Fluids Laboratory....Pages 234-247
An Equation of State for Oxygen and Nitrogen....Pages 248-255
Representation of PVT Data by Means of a Universal State Equation for Simple Pure Fluids....Pages 256-263
Flory-Huggins Entropy—Effect of Liquid Expansion....Pages 264-270
Thermal Conductivity of Nylons and Apiezon Greases....Pages 271-279
Thermal Conductivity Measurements of Liquid and Dense Gaseous Methane....Pages 280-288
Cryogenic Instrumentation at and above Liquid Hydrogen Temperature—Present and Future....Pages 289-300
Cryogenics below Liquid Hydrogen Temperature....Pages 301-316
Temperature and Level Control in a Liquid Helium II Cryostat....Pages 317-322
Continuous Liquid Level Measurements with Time-Domain Reflectometry....Pages 323-327
The Cryobridge, an Automatic AC Potentiometer for Resistance Thermometry at Low Power Dissipation....Pages 328-333
The Use of Difference Thermocouples in Cryogenic Systems....Pages 334-338
A Combustion-Heated, Thermally Actuated Vuilleumier Refrigerator....Pages 339-351
Selected Vuilleumier Refrigerator Performance Characteristics....Pages 352-359
Refrigeration for the Livermore Superconducting Levitron....Pages 360-367
Spacecraft Compatibility of Cryogenic Refrigerators....Pages 368-371
MIT—EEI Superconducting Synchronous Machine....Pages 372-381
A 60-in.-Diameter, Levitated Super-Conducting Coil Thermally Shielded by Lead....Pages 382-387
Vibration Simulation of a Space Probe Model Superconducting Energy Storage Coil....Pages 388-393
Five-MVA Superconducting Generator Development....Pages 394-399
Conductors for Superconducting Electrical Machines....Pages 400-406
Thermal Conductivity of Braided Superconductor Systems....Pages 407-415
Field and Current Measurements and Calculations in a Superconducting Tape-Wound Magnet....Pages 416-422
Critical Current of a 50 at. % Nb-Ti Alloy as a Function of Temperature and Magnetic Field....Pages 423-426
Atomic Hydrogen Stabilization by High Magnetic Fields and Low Temperatures....Pages 427-434
Penultimate Static Pressure Containment Considerations and Possible Applications to Metallic Hydrogen Preparation....Pages 435-440
Prospects for Obtaining Metallic Hydrogen with Spherical Presses....Pages 441-446
High-Density Hydrogen Research....Pages 447-451
A New Thermal Means for Gas Separation....Pages 452-459
Cryopumped, Condensed Hydrogen Jet Target for the National Accelerator Laboratory Main Accelerator....Pages 460-466
Concentric Pulse Tube Analysis and Design....Pages 467-475
Low-Temperature Nitrogen Ejector Performance....Pages 476-485
Long-Term Cryogenic Space Storage System....Pages 486-493
A Low-Heat-Leak, Temperature-Stabilized Support....Pages 494-496
Helium Conservation Using Solid Nitrogen....Pages 497-501
Clean Energy Via Cryogenic Technology....Pages 502-524
Back Matter....Pages 525-533