Eliminate Significant Uncertainty in the Control of Multiphase Flows
Patented AI technology essentially eliminates uncertainties in the metering and management of transparent multiphase flows. The technology works in any gravity, including microgravity and in time-varying acceleration fields. It is therefore applicable to stationary systems and mobile systems, including aircraft, watercraft, and automobiles. Since it is agnostic to gravity, it works on Earth, on orbit, and on the lunar and Martian surfaces.
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Ideal working fluids include:
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Cryogens
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Refrigerants
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Water
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Space applications include:
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Mechanically-Pumped Two-phase flow systems
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Thermal management​
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Propellant Management
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Pump protection
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In-Space Waste management
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Condensable gas management​
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Water ISRU
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Water reclamation
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Human waste processing
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Manufacturing​
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Materials
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Medicines ​
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Thermal Management
Our Heterogeneous Flow Interpreter Transducer (HFIT) exploits artificial intelligence, particularly deep learning neural networks, to make ultra-high frequency instantaneous measurements of the flow with high resolution spatial accuracy, as opposed to time-averaged and volume-averaged measurements.
Current thermal management applications concern relatively optically transparent fluids like cryogens, refrigerants, and water. The HFIT measures phasic and compositional behaviors concerning voids and particulates comprising a flow, including sizes, distributions, velocities, and deposition and reaction rates, exceeding the capabilities of capacitance, ultrasonic, and other sensors. HFIT can also be programmed to compute physical behaviors on the fly, including thermodynamic quality, heat flux, and thermal margins.
The HFIT is acceleration field agnostic, and therefore is accurate for mobile systems such a aircraft and spacecraft that experience acceleration transients and microgravity.
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Broad applications include oil refinery process control, material manufacturing, lunar in situ resource utilization, waste processing, thermal management in hypersonic aircraft, and electric vehicle battery cooling systems.
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Providing acceleration-field-independent precision metering capabilities to multiphase flow managment in orbital and lunar environments to help realize the commercial potential of space.
Waste Processing
Thermal Energy Transport Management
Chemical Processing
Food Processing
Materials Management
In Situ Resource Utilization (e.g., Mining)
Recycling
