增透膜在槽式太阳能高温集热管产业化生产中的应用

高温太阳能集热管作为槽式太阳能热发电系统的核心部件,直接影响其发电效率。文章研究了采用溶胶-凝胶技术和提拉法在高温太阳能集热管的玻璃外管上镀制增透膜,大大地提高了集热管的集热效率;研制了年产15万支的集热管增透膜镀膜自动化生产线,产业化能力得到稳步提升。     

火星太阳电池翼除尘方法综述

“萤火一号”火星探测器即将发射升空,标志着我国火星探测计划实施的开始。然而,火星尘埃在范德华力和静电力的作用下积聚在太阳电池翼的表面,使其转换效率下降,影响火星探测器的寿命。因此,开展火星太阳电池翼除尘技术的研究是非常有意义的。文章主要介绍了火星太阳电池翼的除尘方法,特别是目前最受关注的电帘除尘方法,并对其基本结构、除尘原理、除尘效率和透光性做了详细的描述,对开展火星太阳电池翼除尘技术的研究具有一定的参考作用。     

Radioisotope-powered free-piston Stirling engine for space applications

The paper presents a preliminary conceptual design of a 2kW(e) autonomous power system consisting of a radioisotopic heat source, free-piston Stirling engine, reciprocating induction generator and a space radiator. The proposed design features a direct thermal interfacing of the Pu-238 heat source with the Stirling engine head, low heat losses during normal operation, and provides an auxiliary/emergency cooling system in the case of the engine failure of stopping. The Stirling engine is of the free-displacer, free-piston type invented by Beale and uses helium as the working fluid. The engine piston is integrated with the armature of a simple linear alternator which is used for electric generation. Waste heat is rejected by a four-finned space radiator sized for a geosynchronous orbit. Specific power and efficiency of the Stirling isotope power system are compared with the present and predicted performance of other power conversion systems suitable for the same power range.     

Heat storage and electricity generation in the Moon during the lunar night

One of the biggest challenges of the exploration of the Moon is the survival of the crew and the lunar assets during the lunar night. The environmental conditions on the lunar surface and its cycle, with long periods of darkness, make any long mission in need of specific amounts of heat and electricity to be successful. We have analyzed two different systems to produce heat and electricity on the Moon's surface. The first system consists of Thermal Wadis, sources of thermal power that can be used to supply heat to protect the exploration systems from the extreme cold during periods of darkness. Previous results showed that Wadis can supply enough heat to keep lunar devices such as rovers above their minimum operating temperature (approximately 243 K). The second system studied here is the Thermal Energy Storage (TES), which is able to run a heat engine during the lunar night to produce electricity. When the Sun is shining on the Moon's surface, the system can run the engine directly using the solar power and simultaneously heat a thermal mass. This thermal mass is used as a high temperature source to run the heat engine during the night. We present analytical and numerical calculations for the determination of an appropriate thermal mass for the TES system.     

太阳电池在平流层中的工作性能分析

近年来,临近空间受到广泛关注,多种平流层飞行器被提出,它们大多以太阳电池为 主要的能源获取装置。研究平流层的太阳电池的性能,对平流层的开发和利用具有重要意义 。首先建立了平流层中太阳电池的热环境模型,并结合硅太阳电池的电学模型,得到了 平流层中硅太阳电池的热电耦合分析模型,进而用数值模拟方法对太阳能电池的热学、电学 性能进行了分析和讨论。研究结果表明,平流层热环境的变化对太阳能电池的温度、输出功 率以及电效率都有影响。讨论了风速对太阳电池性能的影响,结果表明随着风速的增 加,太阳电池温度降低、内部温差先增加后减小、发电效率和输出功率都增加。
     

Regional and seasonal limitations for Mars intrinsic ecopoiesis

Mars ecopoiesis is a human controlled process consisting in changes needed for anaerobic life to be established on planet surface. The daily minimum temperature on present day Mars is well below the water freezing point, due to the low thermal inertia of the surface. A simple time-dependent model to evaluate the ground temperature is developed here. It takes into account the incident solar radiation, the greenhouse effect and surface thermal inertia. The model is applied to two modified Martian atmospheres. Increasing surface thermal inertia seems to be necessary for Mars intrinsic ecopoiesis. This can be done either by removing the regolith layer covering the bedrock or by regolith compression. The Northern hemisphere of the terraformed Mars appears to be more hospitable than the Southern hemisphere, because the amplitude of the daily temperature excursion there is lower and the freezing temperature appears at higher latitudes. A regional (and seasonal) terraforming of Mars is suggested.     

基于P3HT空穴传输层的碳基无机CsPbIBr2钙钛矿太阳电池

钙钛矿太阳电池是近年来快速兴起的第三代太阳电池,其中热稳定性优异、成本低、带隙超过2.0 eV的CsPbIBr_2无机钙钛矿太阳电池效率已经突破11%,应用前景广阔。目前,大部分研究都集中在无空穴传输层的碳基CsPbIBr_2钙钛矿太阳电池,较低的开路电压和填充因子是限制效率提升的主要原因。本文将溶液法制备的3-己基聚噻吩(P3HT)空穴传输层应用于CsPbIBr_2钙钛矿太阳电池,提高了内建电势,改善了载流子输运,减少了载流子复合,实现了电池开路电压、填充因子的改善和能量转换效率的提升,丰富了CsPbIBr_2钙钛矿太阳电池的载流子输运机理和效率提升途径,具有一定的推广意义。     

MIC - a self deploying magnetically inflated cable system for large scale space structures

A new approach, termed MIC (Magnetically Inflated Cable) that enables large, lightweight very strong and rigid space structures is described. MIC would be launched as a compact package of coiled superconducting (SC) cables. After reaching orbit, the cables would be cryogenically cooled and electrically energized by a small power source. The resultant repulsion magnetic forces between the DC currents in the SC cables automatically cause the coiled launch package to self deploy into the final large space structure. The SC cables are held in place by a distributed network of high tensile strength tethers (e.g., Spectra material), creating a very stiff, rigid truss structure that strongly resists bending and torsional, etc. movements, without the need for gravity gradient stabilization. A linear quadrupole (LQ) MIC configuration is described that is suitable for large solar power satellites, space stations, space hotels, propellant tanks, manned Mars spacecraft, etc. The LQ has 2 long SC dipole loops, of horizontal width W, length L, and opposite magnetic polarity, which are vertically separated by distance W, producing a long truss structure of square cross-section (width W) with the 4 SC cables at the corners of the square. The SC currents are opposite in adjacent cables, yielding an outwardly directed net radial force on each cable. The ends of each SC loop experience outwards longitudinal forces. The magnetic forces are very strong, even for modest supercurrents. For example, a 4 meter square truss with I = 250 kiloamp has an outwards radial force of 220 kg per meter of cable. and 5250 kg outwards longitudinal force at the ends of each SC loop. The network of restraining tensile lines can support lightweight structures, including solar panels, propellant tankage, habitat modules, power transmission lines, etc. The design of a 1 kilometer long, 4 meter square cross section MIC truss for solar power satellites is described. The MIC launch package fits within the length/weight constraints of the shuttle bay, and includes all of the helium coolant lines, thermal insulation, and refrigeration equipment required.     

火星环绕器推进系统建模与可视化研究

针对液体推进系统的联合仿真演示需求,基于模块化建模思想,根据守恒方程和状态方程,应用AMESim开发了通用液体火箭发动机组件模块库并建立了推进系统仿真模型,利用Simulink和LabVIEW开发了仿真控制模块和视景仿真模型,搭建了全系统联合仿真环境与平台.结合某型火星环绕器推进系统的任务要求以及具体构成,实现了该火星...     

3D打印赋形微小流道集热器内层流换热特性数值模拟与试验研究

针对星内载荷存在大功率、多热源、高度非均匀功率密度的传散热需求,研发了一种3D打印赋形微小流道集热器.在评估了用数值模拟方法预测复杂构型微小流道集热器流动换热特性之可行性基础上,采用数值模拟与试验相结合的方法,研究流量、入口温度、热功率及重力对集热器内层流换热特性的影响,获得了集热器阻力系数与努塞尔数的经验关联式,并优...     

三结砷化镓太阳电池真空连续激光损伤效应

采用1 315 nm波长连续激光,在真空环境下辐照三结砷化镓太阳电池,通过对比辐照前后电池IV、QE等表征数据,研究三结砷化镓太阳电池的损伤效应,并对其损伤机理进行分析。结果表明:当激光功率密度为8 W/cm~2、辐照时间为60 s时,三结砷化镓太阳电池辐照后电性能下降显著,转化效率衰降超过70%。损伤机理是在热损伤与应力损伤的综合作用下,引起电池串联电阻(R_s)、并联电阻(R_(sh))的恶化,且Rsh是衡量电池损坏的关键指标。该结果可以为三结砷化镓太阳电池在激光损伤机理与无线能量传输方面的研究提供一定的参考。     

航天器发动机羽流对太阳电池板力及热效应仿真

文章将差分求解N-S方程与DSMC方法相结合,研究了航天器单台发动机连续工作时的真空羽流对航天器太阳电池板的力效应和热效应。通过求解N-S方程,获得发动机喷管的内流场;再以内流场计算结果作为模拟粒子入口边界条件,应用DSMC方法,在并行计算机平台上进行三维羽流场和力及热效应计算,得到航天器单发动机连续工作情况下羽流场对太阳电池板的力效应和热效应。文章以太阳电池板处于斜45°状态为例,对仿真结果进行了分析。     

火星表面热辐射环境模拟

为了对火星表面的热辐射环境进行模拟,以辅助火星探测等任务,建立了火星大气的一维模型和土壤的一维导热模型,并与NASA的一维火星大气辐射程序相结合,得到了一套整体模拟系统。模拟获得了火星地表温度及接收到的可见光、红外辐射热流密度,分析了季节、纬度、尘暴、云层的变化对地表温度和所受太阳辐射造成的影响。模拟结果表明,纬度和季节的变化影响着太阳高度角和日照时长等因素,进而对可见光辐射造成显著影响;尘埃光学厚度的增加会削弱可见光辐射并增强红外辐射,云层光学性质的改变造成的影响与之相似但较小;四者的改变都会对地表的温度及接收到的太阳辐射热流密度造成不同程度的影响。     

多舱耦合流体系统在功耗调配模式下的模拟分析

结合某种航天器,设计了一种多舱耦合的集成式热管理的流体回路系统。介绍了该系统的结构和功耗调配模式、流体回路热耦合方式,运用商业软件SINDA/FLUINT建立回路的流体和热模型,对不同功耗调配模式下流体回路不同热耦合方式进行分析。模拟结果表明,该回路最佳的工作模式为中、低温功耗调配与中温回路热耦合相结合,在这种工作模式下,调配效率可保持在η≈1,即功耗调配量与热耦合的传递热量总能近乎相等。     

高效能源系统管理与控制技术

能源系统是飞行器的关键技术之一,能源系统性能的优劣对飞行器能否正常飞行及实现预定任务有重要影响。本文针对大功率飞行器对分布式循环能源系统的管理需求,开展高效能源系统管理与控制技术研究,提出一种集逐级调压控制、限流充电控制、恒流输出控制以及最大功率点跟踪(MPPT)控制为一体的层级梯次控制策略,实现分布式系统的全局优化控制和飞行器能源的功率优化调度。研制的能源管理系统(PCU)配备1条234～328 V高压母线,额定功率15 kW,电路效率大于97%,功率密度大于750 W/kg。PCU依托分布式架构,采用层级梯次控制策略,验证了高效能源系统管理与控制技术的正确性和有效性。     

Remnant magnetic fields of Mars and their interaction with the solar wind

This work presents a review of studies of the Martian magnetic fields during the early Soviet missions to Mars in 1971–1974, which never approached Mars by closer than 1000 km before the experiment with the Magnetometer/Electronic Reflectometer (MAG/ER) on board the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft, which could descend to altitudes of 80–100 km. At present, the experiment with the magnetometer (MAG) onboard the American MAVEN spacecraft adds new data, but the map of distribution of remnant magnetic fields of Mars and the picture of their interaction with the solar wind are already formed and, at its core, obviously, will not be revised. Thus, it would be very instructive to consider the following in detail: (a) what is already known regarding the features and distribution of remnant magnetic fields on Mars; (b) how they control the interaction of solar wind with a weakly magnetized planet (Mars); and (c) what is its distinction from another nonmagnetized planet (Venus).     

火星探测的主要科学问题

在太阳系的行星中,火星与地球之间存在最多的相似之处,因此,火星是一颗承载人类最多梦想的星球。火星有水和生命存在的问题,激发了人类火星探索的好奇心,成为人类持续探测火星的推动力。火星的起源和演化与太阳系形成过程的关系,火星与类地行星的共性和特性,是当代行星科学研究的重要内容。为了人类社会的可持续发展,火星可否改造成为适宜人类居住的绿色星球——这些是人类在火星探测中必须面对的重大科学问题。只有这些重大科学问题被一一解答,我们才能清晰地去思考地球和人类自身的未来！     

Scenarios which may lead to the rise of an asteroid-based technical civilisation

In a previous paper, the author described a hypothetical development path of technical civilisations which has the following stages: planet dwellers, asteroid dwellers, interstellar travellers, interstellar space dwellers. In this paper, several scenarios are described which may cause the rise of an asteroid-based technical civilisation. Before such a transition may take place, certain space technologies must be developed fully (now these exist only in very preliminary forms): closed-cycle biological life support systems, space manufacturing systems, electrical propulsion systems. After mastering these technologies, certain events may provide the necessary financial means and social impetus for the foundation of the first asteroid-based colonies. In the first scenario, a rich minority group becomes persecuted and they decide to leave the Earth. In the second scenario, a "cold war"-like situation exists and the leaders of the superpowers order the creation of asteroid-based colonies to show off their empires' technological (and financial) grandiosity. In the third scenario, the basic situation is similar to the second one, but in this case the asteroids are not just occupied by the colonists. With several decades of hard work, an asteroid can be turned into a kinetic energy weapon which can provide the same (or greater) threat as the nuclear arsenal of a present superpower. In the fourth scenario, some military asteroids are moved to Earth-centred orbits and utilised as "solar power satellites" (SPS). This would be a quite economical solution because a "military asteroid" already contains most of the important components of an SPS (large solar collector arrays, power distribution devices, orbit modifying rocket engine), one should add only a large microwave transmitter.     

The critical satellite technical issues of future pervasive broadband low-cost communication networks

Using a baseline design for a 30/20 GHz system, this paper addresses the critical technical issues of signal waveform design, projected spacecraft technology, satellite launch options and satellite cost. With DPCM (differential pulse-coded modulation) video signal encoding, 32 Mb/s user-to-user data rate per channel, 10% overhead, two orthogonal polarizations, and crosstalk loss limited to 1 dB, TFM (tamed frequency modulation—a type of QPSK) permits about 75 channels/GHz of frequency allocation, i.e. about twice the capacity possible with MSK or SFSK (types of QPSK). The BOM (beginning of mission) weight and power of a baseline 400-channel multi-beam satellite is about 1800 kg and 5000 W. Each 35 Mb/s channel can support 1–10 video channels depending on the signal processing at the ground terminals. These weight and power estimates assume hardened digital logic, composite material for a multibeam antenna structure, high-efficiency solar cells (45 W/kg), NiH₂ batteries and 10W/20 GHz power amplifiers. If more speculative late-1980s solar cell technology is assumed, then the BOM weight decreases about 10–15%. Using the Space Transportation System being developed by NASA, geosynchronous deployment options are shown as a function of communications capacity. Based on a cost model for large communication satellites, the total space segment cost of two active satellites and one spare would be about $485M. This system would have a peak capacity of 14 Gb/s or 400-35 Mb/s simultaneous one-way channels. Demonstration and/or initial system (ground plus space) costs would be significantly less. It is concluded that the above baseline satellite appears to be technically feasible in the late-1980s.     

一种燃料最省的火星精确着陆动力下降段快速轨迹优化方法

针对火星精确着陆问题,给出一种燃料最省的火星着陆动力下降段快速轨迹优化方法。首先以燃料最省为指标建立了着陆器动力下降段轨迹优化问题模型,然后利用极大值原理对该模型的推力大小、推力方向与协状态变量之间的关系进行分析,得出着陆器推力只能以最大或最小推力工作、推力方向和与速度对应的协状态矢量方向相同的结论。并以此为基础,将原问题的状态微分方程和协状态微分方程转换为有限个推力为常值的分段函数,推导每段内微分方程的解析表达式,给出了动力下降段轨迹优化方法的算法流程;最后通过数学仿真将所提出的方法与凸规划、多项式制导方法进行比较。结果表明该方法不仅避免了多项式方法没有考虑推力约束及燃料消耗的缺陷,而且在计算效率方面较凸规划方法有大幅度提高。