The Boeing Company

Kevin Nemeth

John W Behrens

Andrew I Mactavish

Craig Alan Christy

Gregory Kim

Albert Portillo

Jimmy P Huynh

Roland E Mah

Thanh P Duong

Nathaniel Keyek-Franssen

Alex W Chao

Creed Reilly

Example implementations relate to techniques for thermal fluid conditioning and delivery. A technique may involve coupling a container of heat transfer fluid to an input and removing moisture from the heat transfer fluid via a molecular sieve. A pressure source is configured to push the heat transfer fluid out of the container and through the molecular sieve. Subsequent to removing the moisture from the heat transfer fluid, the technique involves separating, via an orifice coupled to a tank, the heat transfer fluid into liquid and gas particles within the tank and removing, via a vacuum coupled to the tank, the gas particles from the tank. The liquid can then be supplied into a fluid system via additional pressure by the pressure source. The technique may be performed by a portable device that houses the various components used to condition and delivery the thermal fluid.

Methods and systems for thermal fluid conditioning and delivery

A machine and process for visualizing and interacting with a virtual model for a propulsion and/or fluid system. The machine includes a modular construction that includes a display server that comprises a socket in communication with a socket in a second server that comprises a piping evaluator that includes a traversal graph that accelerates processing of inputs for an executable block diagram for the propulsion and/or fluid system displayed on a graphical user interface. The traversal graph accesses support files generated by a scan shapes tool in communication with a diagram and vector graphic application with tailored stencils.

Machine and process to design, validate, and/or test a fluid system

The present application relates to systems, methods, and apparatus for facilitating the testing of a payload. An exemplary apparatus may include a fluid inlet port configured to receive fluid from a thermal subsystem of the payload. The apparatus may also include an actuating device configure to supply the fluid to a heat exchanger. A valve may be configured to receive the fluid from the heat exchanger and separate the fluid into a first fluid line and a second fluid line. A first fluid outlet port may be configured to supply the fluid to the thermal subsystem of the payload and a second fluid outlet port may be configured to supply the fluid to the thermal subsystem of payload.

Integrated phased array (IPA) thermal subsystem fluid loop simulator

A transfer system for supplying a receiving tank of a receiving spacecraft with a supply gas from a supply spacecraft. A transfer tank is disposed on the supply spacecraft and configured to retain a supply gas. A transfer line is coupled to the transfer tank, and one end thereof may be coupled to the receiving tank. A transfer valve is operatively coupled to the transfer line. A heating system is thermally coupled to the transfer tank. A control system is operatively coupled to the transfer valve and the heating system. The control system is operable to cause a transfer quantity of the supply gas to be heated, and to open the transfer valve, such that a difference between the increased pressure of the supply gas in the transfer tank and a pressure in the receiving tank causes the transfer quantity of the supply gas to flow to the receiving tank.

Space-based gas supply system

A method of supplying a receiving tank of a receiving spacecraft with a supply gas. The method includes coupling a second end of a transfer line in flow communication with the receiving tank. The transfer line extends from a first end to the second end. The first end is coupled to a transfer tank disposed on a supply spacecraft. The transfer tank holds a transfer quantity of the supply gas. The supply spacecraft includes a heating system coupled in thermal communication with the transfer tank and a transfer valve operatively coupled to the transfer line. The method also includes activating the heating system while the transfer valve is closed such that a pressure of the transfer quantity of the supply gas is increased. The method further includes opening the transfer valve, wherein a difference between the increased pressure of the supply gas in the transfer tank and a pressure in the receiving tank causes a portion of the transfer quantity of the supply gas to flow through the transfer line to the receiving tank.

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