Sentences with phrase «external tank»

Flow batteries generate power by pumping liquids from external tanks into a central stack.

Flow batteries store their active chemicals in external tanks and pass it through the battery structure itself.

But the vanadium battery is a flow system — that is, liquid electrolytes are pumped from external tanks into the stack, where the electricity - generating redox reaction takes place.

External tanks hold enough additional water to cool the reactor for two weeks in the event of a loss of power as well.

During launch, one of the cameras appeared to show an object coming off of Discovery's external tank less than a minute into its ascent.

The shuttle is comprised of three components: the orbiter (the aeroplane - like crew - and cargo - carrying craft that most people think of as the shuttle); a large external tank (ET) that holds the liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen fuel; and two solid rocket boosters (SRBs) packed with powdered aluminium and rubber fuel.

Keep things waterproofYour new basement may be below the level of the water table, and if this is the case, there are a number of methods of waterproofing available including external tanking to inner drained cavity lining.

Like other flow batteries, the zinc - polyiodide battery produces power by pumping liquid from external tanks into the battery's stack, a central area where the liquids are mixed.

Flow batteries produce power by pumping electrolytes - liquid solutions with dissolved chemicals — from external tanks into a central stack.

The stunt revealed protruding filler and tile damage sustained when foam had broken away from the external tank.

An investigation later determined that the cold temperatures had compromised the solid rocket booster's delicate rubber O - ring and the faulty seal allowed flames to ignite the external tank's hydrogen fuel.

It was a vision in white, but NASA stopped painting the external tank after the second mission, giving the tank its distinctive orange colour and sparing the craft 272 kilograms of white latex paint.

These include modifying the shuttle's external tank to prevent the loss of foam insulation during launch and giving astronauts the ability to detect — and repair — damage to heat - resistant tiles while in orbit.

NASA had identified a large object falling off the external tank during Discovery's launch on Tuesday.

The faulty ring, made brittle by unusually cold weather at launch, allowed a jet of flame to ignite the hydrogen fuel in the external tank.

Since the loss of Columbia, NASA has spent more than $ 1.4 billion to redesign the external tank, restructure its management team, and make other safety changes recommended by the Columbia Accident Investigation Board.

These protrusions were not the result of foam falling from the external tank during lift - off and hitting the orbiter.

Those images will be analysed for any major foam loss from the external tank.

Immediately after launch, Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi took video of the external tank as it separated from the orbiter while fellow astronaut Andy Thomas snapped digital photographs.

Shuttle managers say the agency began cancelling contracts on some shuttle parts, including the main engine and external tank, two years ago.

The external tanks in PNNL's new battery hold aqueous electrolytes, watery solutions with dissolved chemicals that store energy.

NASA Space Shuttle consisted of an orbiter, solid rocket boosters and an external tank.

Now ask the question that certain rocket scientists apparently have not asked: how resistant is the foam insulation on the external tank to vapor flow?

The space shuttle, external tank, two companion booster rockets, and fuel payload had a combined launch weight of approximately 4.4 million pounds, 3.785 million pounds of which was just the weight of the fuel — the bare, cargo - free shuttle itself only had a weight of 165,000 pounds.