Atout is pleased to announce the award of another patent on our Smart Tank and Smart Pipe technology, as announced in the Patents Journal on 12 February 2020.
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Monthly Archives February 2020
Smart tanks, smart vessels and smart pipes for spacecraft using non-intrusive electrical capacitance tomography
Measurement of the mass and slosh forces in test tanks, satellite tanks and launcher tanks. Systems for ground-test applications are commercially available now, for example measurement of gas volume fraction in cryogenic liquids. Gauging propellant in microgravity or zero gravity conditions remains a significant technical challenge. Atout Process have demonstrated a smart space tank, which utilises electrical capacitance tomography (ECT) for the accurate real-time measurement of propellant or oxidiser mass and slosh torque vector. ECT is an imaging technique for visualising industrial processes containing dielectric materials. It can be used to investigate the internal dynamic behaviour by presenting a cross-sectional
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