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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 02, 2022
Filed:
Jan. 13, 2020
Bwxt Nuclear Energy, Inc., Lynchburg, VA (US);
Robert Paul Martin, Lynchburg, VA (US);
Jeremy Leslie Gustafson, Lynchburg, VA (US);
Ryan Z. Ziegler, Forest, VA (US);
Charles Larry Fisher, Forest, VA (US);
James Brian Inman, Forest, VA (US);
BWXT Nuclear Energy, Inc., Lynchburg, VA (US);
Abstract
A desuperheating spray chamber for use in a rocket exhaust recovery system for a nuclear thermal propulsion rocket, including a substantially-cylindrical outer tank with an upper end including an entrance port and two exhaust ports, a substantially-cylindrical shroud extending downwardly from an inner surface of the upper end of the tank, an annular inner spray ring that is both disposed within and concentric with the shroud; and an annular outer spray ring that is disposed between a side wall of the outer tank and the shroud, the annular outer ring being concentric with the shroud.