Reliability issues in stirling radioisotope power systems

Collection of Technical Papers - 2nd International Energy Conversion Engineering Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages 57-64

  Shah, Ashwin R ^a   Schreiber, Jeffrey G ^b  

^a Sest Inc   (United States)

^b NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSTS; DATA ACQUISITION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUCLEAR FUELS; PROBABILITY; RADIOISOTOPES; SPACE APPLICATIONS; THERMOELECTRICITY;

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY (DOE); ELECTRIC POWERS; RADIOISOTOPES POWER SYSTEM (RPS); STIRLING RADIOISOTOPES GENERATOR (SRG110);

STIRLING ENGINES;

EID: 20344364683     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.2514/6.2004-5506     Document Type: Conference Paper

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