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Fluids Integrated Rack (FIR)

Managed By: NASA

Implementation Partner: NASA/Glenn Research Center

Hardware Details

Specifications

  • Housed in the Fluid and Combustion Facility (FCF)
  • Mounted in an International Standard Payload Rack (ISPR), with an Active Rack Isolation System (ARIS)
  • Light Microscopy Module (LMM) is housed inside the FIR

Accommodates the following areas of research

  • Boiling heat transfer
  • Multiphase flow
  • Liquid vapor interface control
  • Liquid and vapor evaporation and condensation
  • Colloids
  • Human Health and performance
  • Medical technology
  • Biosciences

Volume ~ 0.7 m3 (1100mm x 895mm x 495mm on the front of the OB)
Mass ~ 300kg depending on FIR be utilized

Electrical Power Control Unit (EPCU)

  • Nominal 672 W/1600W max at 28Vdc
  • 1450 W at 120Vdc

Thermal Cooling

  • 3 kW water (MTL)
  • 1300 W air (provided at 20oC to 30oC)

Video

  • Common Image Processing Unit (C-IPSU) – IEEE 1394 FireWire &
  • Analog Frame Grabber Interfaces for PI provided cameras
  • C-IPSU – Image processing & storage units for real time and post processing of image data
  • Illumination – White Light & 150mW 532nm Nd:YAG LASER*
  • Analog Color Camera*

Control & Data Acquisition

  • Fluid Science Avionics Package (FSAP) – Standard control and data acquisition interfaces (e.g. analog & digital Inputs/Outputs, motion control, RS-422)
  • 540 GB of Data Storage

Related Documents

http://www.spacestationresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/FIR-Short-Overview-Presentation.pdf http://www.spacestationresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/ZIN-FCF-FIR-Summary.pdf

Related Links

http://spaceflightsystems.grc.nasa.gov/SOPO/ICHO/IRP/FCF/FIR/ http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/360.html

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