• Cryogenic fuels are fuels that require storage at extremely low temperatures in order to maintain them in a liquid state. These fuels are used in machinery...
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    application. The entire process takes 3–4 days. Another use of cryogenics is cryogenic fuels for rockets with liquid hydrogen as the most widely used example...
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    A cryogenic rocket engine is a rocket engine that uses a cryogenic fuel and oxidizer; that is, both its fuel and oxidizer are gases which have been liquefied...
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    liquid fuel such as liquid hydrogen or RP-1, and a liquid oxidizer such as liquid oxygen. The engine may be a cryogenic rocket engine, where the fuel and...
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    (SSTO RLVs), such as metallic thermal protection systems, composite cryogenic fuel tanks for liquid hydrogen, the aerospike engine, autonomous (uncrewed)...
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    reduce the size of the tanks liquid hydrogen will be used, requiring cryogenic fuel tanks. Cylindrical tanks minimise surface for minimal thermal insulation...
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    liquid fuels such as hydrocarbons is coming under scrutiny. Energy portal Alcohol fuel Alternative fuels Ammonia Bitumen-based fuel Cryogenic fuel Fossil...
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    Orbital propellant depot (category Fuels infrastructure)
    their total mass. Large upper-stage rocket engines generally use a cryogenic fuel like liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen (LOX) as an oxidizer because...
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    hypergolic propellant must therefore carry a greater mass of fuel than one that uses these cryogenic fuels. The corrosivity, toxicity, and carcinogenicity of traditional...
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    Liquid hydrogen (category Cryogenics)
    twice that of other fuels, this gives it a remarkably low volumetric energy density, many fold lower. Liquid hydrogen requires cryogenic storage technology...
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    isometrically: the fuel flow and nozzle area scale linearly with the engine's width. All expander cycle engines need to use a cryogenic fuel such as liquid...
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    into an engine. Fuel tanks range in size and complexity from the small plastic tank of a butane lighter to the multi-chambered cryogenic Space Shuttle external...
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    2005. Both members of the family use liquid oxygen/liquid hydrogen cryogenic fuel. The new version under development for Ariane 6 will be called Vulcain...
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    missiles used liquid-fueled rocket motors. Many liquid-fueled ICBMs could not be kept fueled at all times as the cryogenic fuel liquid oxygen boiled off...
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    aircraft, developed from the Tu-144. It implemented novel features such as cryogenic fuel to enable flight distances of up to 10,000 km (6,200 mi) and would have...
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    Hydrogen (category Nuclear fusion fuels)
    Rocket propellant: Liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen together serve as cryogenic fuel in liquid-propellant rockets, as in the Space Shuttle main engines....
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    propellants are storable propellants, which tend to be cryogenic and hypergolic propellants. Liquid-fueled rockets have higher specific impulse than solid rockets...
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  • cargo areas are separated by an insulated fuel tank stretching the length of the center fuselage, holding cryogenic liquefied natural gas (LNG). The HCA-LB...
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    Liquid oxygen (redirect from Cryogenic LOX)
    Cryogenics Liquid hydrogen Liquid helium Liquid nitrogen List of Stoffs Natterer compressor Rocket fuel Solid oxygen Tetraoxygen "First liquid-fueled...
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    and it was the first widely used outer space rocket to use the all-cryogenic fuel-oxidizer combination of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen. The use of...
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    Production cargo variant. Tu-336 Proposed liquid natural gas-fueled version, with cryogenic fuel tanks above the passenger cabin. Tu-354 Further stretched...
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  • converted into a testbed for alternative fuels Tu-216: a Tu-204 converted into a testbed for cryogenic fuel Tu-230 (also known as Tu-260): hypersonic...
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  • based in Balashikha, Russia. It was involved in the manufacturing of cryogenic fuel components in Soviet and Russian missiles, from the R-1 missile to the...
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    hydrogen tank were achieved, as NASA gained more experience with cryogenic carbon fiber fuel tanks. September 7, 2004, Northrop Grumman and NASA engineers...
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    Natural gas (category Fuel gas)
    C-Ply KittyHawk with CNG Potential". NGV Global News. "Development of Cryogenic Fuel Aircraft". Tupolev. Archived from the original on 9 December 2010. Retrieved...
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    last Soviet missile to use cryogenic propellant, this design is one of the most widely deployed ICBMs to use cryogenic fuel. OKB-456 (later renamed to...
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    Electrovan, based on the GMC Handi-Van. The vehicle used a Union Carbide cryogenic fuel cell to power a 115-horsepower electric motor. It never went into production...
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    succession" in order to manage schedule constraints and cryogenic fuel boil-off. When fully fueled, Starship HLS is designed to land 100 t (220,000 lb) of...
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    spin isomer conversion kinetics in supercritical fluid hydrogen for cryogenic fuel storage technologies". Appl. Phys. Lett. 99 (8): 081906. Bibcode:2011ApPhL...
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    other bodies in the Solar System. ULA also designed and built the Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage for the Space Launch System (SLS). The company was formed...
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