SAN ANTONIO -- Jan. 20, 2020 -- Southwest Research Institute is now the home of a reciprocating compressor flow loop that is capable of recreating real-life gas pipeline pressures, temperatures and ...

Now the MCRE project has revealed the successful completion of its Molten Salt Flow Loop Test Bed, which aims to develop a reactor that can withstand the corrosive effects of molten salt. This closed ...

Nuclear thermal propulsion, which uses heat from nuclear reactions as fuel, could be used one day in human spaceflight, possibly even for missions to Mars. Its development, however, poses a challenge.

SAE Transactions, Vol. 104, Section 1: JOURNAL OF AEROSPACE (1995), pp. 750-764 (15 pages) The Capillary Pumped Loop Flight Experiment (CAPL) employs a passive two-phase thermal control system that ...