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Praetorian Cooling System
LRI –
Evaporator
Heat Load?
Hot Vapour
Cold Liquid
Hot Air
WTP Cooler
RAM Air
Heat Exchanger
-Condenser
RAM Air
Turbine -
Compressor
Expansion Valves
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Cooler LRI
V-flange
Air inletTurbine statorTurbine wheelCondenser
Compressor
Electro-pump
Tank
Shaft seal
Bearings
Air outlet &
Louver valve
Air outlet seal
Rear
lug
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R245fa
• 100°C Air On
• HFC 1,1,1,3,3-pentafluoropropane
R11 R123 R245fa R134a
CCl3
F CF3-CHCl2 CF3CH2CHF2 C2
H2
F4
137.37 152.93 134 102
24 28 15 -26.3
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AGE
• Charge and Recovery
• Below Boiling Point fluid will not charge by standing pressure.
• Compressor can not be ground run ‘easily’
• Below Boiling Point Conventional Recovery Equipment Does NOT ‘work’
• Close to Boiling Point Conventional Recovery Equipment is ‘challenged’
• AGE Requirement to Charge and Recover from -40 to +50°C
• Ground Test
• Option A …. Ram Air Blower
• Option B ….. Work like the Cooler LRI
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Charge/Recovery & Ground Test
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Leak Detection
• In Manufacture
• Helium – Chamber Testing 10-5 to 10-6 m.bar.l.sec-1
• Mass Spectrometer (Turbo Molecular Pump)
• Why helium
• Not because of its ‘searching’ properties (what ever that is?)
• Not because of its Molecular size (10-7 m.bar.l.sec-1)
• Its because we can quantify the leak rate (using standard gas equation)
• On Flight Line
• Helium
• Ion Science Gas Check
• WISE Sensor (Semi Permeable Membrane)
• Hand Held Detectors ‘a waste of time’
• FLIR?
• More FLIR?
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Heritage?
• Midgley
• Stable
• Non Flammable
• Non Toxic
• LP & HP Available
• Natural Refrigerants?
• HFC’s to HFO’s?
• Where is the hardware?
• Where are the images?
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Acknowledgements
• Images
• Author
• SELEX Galileo
• UK MoD
• US DoD
• Finmeccanica
• Flight magazine
• Airbus Industrie
• Other images are internet sourced and are owners copyright
• Specific image sources can be provided on request
• Data
• Praetorian Project Team, SELEX Galileo, Luton.
• DASS IPT, Military Air Solutions, BAE Systems, Warton,
• RAF Coningsby, Lincolnshire
• Augusto Franzini of Fimac SpA, Milan, Italy
• Elettronica SpA, Rome, Italy
• Judith Evans & Andrew Gigiel, RD&T, Bristol
• Roger Day, RDA Environmental Engineering, Isle of Wight
• Ted Garner, Vacuum Engineering, Manchester
• Lightfoot Defence, Fareham
• Ernest West & Beynon, Paddock Wood
• JTL Systems, Newbury
• Henk Van Der Maaten (Retd) & Raymond H Thomas, Honeywell Fluorine products.
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Questions
• Rules
a) Don’t know…but will find out
b) Cant tell you…business confidential (or really don’t know)
Notas do Editor
Welcome
Weather
Presentation of Degrees of Separation
Fluorinated Refrigerants in Vapour Compression Systems (know others)
Part 1 Typhoon
Part 2 heritage
Part 3 Praetorian
Part 4 R245fa Honeywell ECR
Part 6 AGE
Eurofighter.com
Briefing
Currently about £80M (no CD player)
RAF Coningsby
RAF Leuchers
Fortress Falklands
Thomas Midgley May 18, 1889 – November 2, 1944
Charles Kettering
General Motors work with DuPont
Critical of Workplace Safety
Freon
Dayton Wright - General Motors – Liberty Bug
Fraud Investigation
1923 Buffalo (home of Honeywell)
TEL lead
Merlin 130 Test Bed 1940kW
Density of Modern Electrical and Electronics (Space, envelope, mass)
Processors running to over 120 Deg C
Solder melts
Similar to PC issues
Air Cycle, Air Cooling, Sterling Cycle, Oil, Glycol
Limited to Ambient
737 Air Cycle System
Complexity of install
No cabin
Not Pressurised
Heating!
Percy Pilcher was first 1899 – banks!
CFC R12
Electric Compressor
Converted for Military Use Ripped Out
The Aviator movie – reliability?
Sir George Godfrey Vapour Cycle Unit
ECS Under Nose Wheel
Electric Driven 8hp
Electric CFC R11
Search for actual unit….
Turboprop
3.5 kW CFC R12
Electric Compressor
Turboprop – Predator from Honeywell
First Commercially Successful jet Airliner
CFC R12
Electric Driven Compressor
Air Bleed from Jet Engine (Whittle) Gloster E28/39
727 Instrument
Some replaced as engines became more efficient
Air Bleed DC8 of 1959
CFC R12
Electric Compressor
Nice Image
Used by NASA as a ‘floating lab’
Executive Jet
CFC R12
Air Bleed
Electric Compressor
Upgraded to 28v DC
Automotive Compressor
Aftermarket Fitment
Hermetic or Motor Driven
After Market R12 to R134a Kit for Falcon Executive jet
Falcon used for DASS Trials at FRA
EAG 3273
English Electric Mach 5
Sir Fredrick Page
M5 Ramjets (Paul A Hilton) Inlet Air Temp
RR 162 Turbojets
No air bleed
TSR2
Augusta Westland Longbow Apache
US Air Bleed (some R134a)
UK R134a
Gearbox Driven compressor 8kg charge
Ours +50 Deg C
Theirs +40 Deg C
Lakota v Blackhawk
Shuttle R21/Ammonia
Electric Driven
Heat Exchanger
Zvezda 3rd Module
The station's service module environmental systems
PFC R218 Octafluropentane
DASS PFC Used
Saturn 5 Booster Stage Freon Cooling Cold Plate
DC3 Galley
First aircraft with a galley designed in.
Worlds First fully pressurised airliner
Parts from the B17 Fortress
Full Serviced Galley
CFC R12
Electric Compressor
US Navy
Only WWII aircraft with a fridge on board?
Overshadowed by the PBY Catalina
GE (Midgley) CFC R12
VC10
Vents
Ram Air Driven Normalair Compressor
CFC 114
Now Honeywell
Probably stripped out when engines upgraded
Refrigerators from Lec Special projects
Comet
Caravelle
A380
R134a primary
Galden Secondary
15kW
Cools Service Trolleys
Uses same helium detection system as DASS
15 threats
Air
Sea
Land
Missile Tracking
Missile Launch
Missile Approach
Integrated and Distributed
Automated
Bad day at the office
Standard Soviet MANPADS
FIM 92 Stinger Dual Seeker IR/UV
Early missiles cooled with R12 total loss
Tested in R12 to simulate upper atmosphere!
Movie
3.31 to 4.45
SAM Launcher
Decoy
MANPADS
Countermeasures
Praetorian
Roman Guards
Question name?
Distributed
Sensor Fusion
Flares
Chaff
Cooler LRI
LRI’s
1kg of Refrigerant
+9G
-3.5G
-60 to +100 Deg C
Requirement Electronics Cold Wall at 70 Deg C
Key Components under 120 Deg C
FIMAC
32000 RPM
RAM Air Driven
Low Energy
Compact for easy replacement 3 bolts
QD fittings
Explain
Booster Pump
Tank Solenoid Pump
Low level High Speed
Transient
7.5 kG
30 candidates
100 Deg C air on (39 bar A R134a)
HFC, HFE, PFC, HCFC
Honeywell R245fa ECR
Replacement for CFC R11 and HCFC R123
25 year Contract Life
Work done by Trane and Dr Robert Dorr
Foam Blowing
Grade ECR
Oil, Moisture and Particulates
Rankin Cycles, Heat Recovery, Solar Air Conditioning
Leeches Plasticiser
Softens and Swells PTFE materials
R245fa behaves like water below 10 Deg C
Recovery Units rely of external heat input.
Apache Unit – Cold Weather Solution for R134a
Lightfoot/RDA who supplied initial development equipment for Praetorian
Tender Released
Lightfoot and EWB have developed solutions.
GCU
Initially specific heat transfer systems with secondary's (pumps)
EWB – Works like the aircraft.
EU 5g/year = mass flow not leak rate
System maintenance
Refrigerant quality face seal runs dry
Low Liquid Level Indicator
Group A = Lower Toxicity R134a
Group B = Higher Toxicity R245fa
Both trialled as aesthetic gasses!
Are they actually Toxic = mg/kg LD50
Measure of effects of exposure
Risk Assessments and method statements require more data to avoid sticking TOXIC labels on all systems.