Stainless steel castings
Stainless steel castings
(OP)
I am looking for any particular references or books on liquid metal(sodium) pumps used in spacecrafts. My interest is in understanding the requirements of stainless steel castings used for this application .
Thanks in anticipation.
Thanks in anticipation.





RE: Stainless steel castings
I'd ask the question (or put a pointer post linking back here) over in the nuclear engineering forum - I think there are terrestrial breeder reactors and similar experimental reactors that are/were designed with liquid sodium coolants.
RE: Stainless steel castings
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium-cooled_fast_re...
RE: Stainless steel castings
Lots of good info on what does not work.
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Plymouth Tube
RE: Stainless steel castings
Is it the size of the pump,that makes castings the preferred choice or am I missing something ?
Thanks as usual for your time and responses.
RE: Stainless steel castings
With a casting you can make very complex internal 3D geometries.
But if you are only making a few pieces then casting is a long route.
If I needed to make a small number of intricate parts that were only inches in diameter I would look to 3D print the waxes and investment cast them.
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Plymouth Tube
RE: Stainless steel castings