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US 2023/0122936 A1Published application
Composite structure provided with a thermal protection device with hollow fibers, in particular for a liquid hydrogen tank
AssigneeAirbus SAS
InventorsSylvain CHATEL, Stéphane BECHTEL, Caroline PETIOT, Serge MAISON
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Abstract
A composite structure is disclosed forming part of a wall of a liquid hydrogen tank, and including at least one thermal protection device having one or more of hollow fibers, such as to create thermal protection, for example a thermal barrier or a heat exchanger, which makes it possible to protect the composite structure in case of a high temperature gradient between the two faces thereof, while benefiting from the advantages of a composite material in terms of mass.
Claims15
A composite structure for a wall of a liquid hydrogen tank, comprising:
- at least one thermal protection device corresponding to a heat exchanger or a thermal barrier, and
- wherein the thermal protection device comprises one or a plurality of hollow fibers.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.