Suspended skin for thermal insulation of cryogenic propellants
AssigneeAerospatiale Societe Nationale Industrielle
InventorRoger Le Touche
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Abstract
The invention consists in a double storage tank with an upper storage tank disposed above a lower storage tank, the storage tanks being separated by a thermally insulative wall, in which said thermally insulative wall is a double-skin wall comprising a rigid bulkhead towards the upper storage tank and a skin towards the bottom storage tank which is permeable to gases but impermeable to the liquid in the bottom storage tank, said rigid bulkhead and said skin being held apart.
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Double storage tank with an upper storage tank disposed above a lower storage tank, the storage tanks being separated by a thermally insulative wall, characterised in that said thermally insulative wall is a double-skin wall comprising a rigid bulkhead (3) towards the top storage tank and a skin (4) towards the bottom storage tank said skin being permeable to gases but impermeable to the liquid in the bottom storage tank, said rigid bulkhead (3) and said skin (4) being held apart.
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