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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2020
Filed:
May. 31, 2018
Consolidated Nuclear Security, Llc, Reston, VA (US);
Edward B. Ripley, Knoxville, TN (US);
Jacob Miller, Oliver Springs, TN (US);
Michael J. Renner, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
Walter Duerksen, Norris, TN (US);
Jonathan Morrell, Knoxville, TN (US);
Consolidate Nuclear Security, LLC, Oak Ridge, TN (US);
Abstract
A thermal protection barrier including a base layer having a plurality of baffles with perforated walls and a high melting temperature granular media disposed within the plurality of baffles. When the base layer is breached by a thermal threat, the granular media is operable to flow through the perforated walls of the plurality of baffles to provide a controlled flow of granular media to an area proximate the breach for thwarting the thermal threat.