ESA Open Invitation to Tender: 1-10615
Open Date: 16/03/2021 00:00 CET
Closing Date: 18/05/2021 13:00 CEST

BACKGROUND: Moving to a heat-pipe radiator with heat exchanger interface to the cooling loop has the potential to increase reliability. This could be a significant advantage especially in long time mission where the reliability plays a significant role. In order to develop this approach, an effective and reliable heat exchanger is needed. APPROACH: The specific goals for the proposed activityare:- to identify a concept for a heat-pipe radiator on the basis of future needs for ESA exploration missions and perform a trade-off in order to identify key parameters to form the focus for development of a competitive design- to plan and perform developmentof the related means for simulation and breadboard hardware, to determine the relative performance of the heat-pipe/hybrid radiator/heat exchanger concept and a comparable fluid-circulation radiator- to apply the obtained results to outline the path to develop acompact, efficient and reliable heat exchanger with interface to a heat pipes networkThe main tasks within the scope of this activity entail:- requirements consolidation- technology trade-off review- material investigation and coupon testing- design and manufacturing of prototypes/breadboard- validation testing of the breadboard- way forward for industrialization

Estabilishment: ESTEC
ECOS Required: No
Classified: No
Price Range: > 500 KEURO
Contracts Officer: Annika Tenho
Initiating Service: HRE-E
IP Measure: N/A
Prog. Reference: E/0116-02M – ExPeRT E3P Per. 2
Tender Type: Open Competition
Open To Tenderers From: AT+BE+CA+CH+CZ+DE+DK+EL+ES+FR+GB+HU+IE+IT+LU+NL+NO+PL+PT+RO+SE+SI
Technology Keywords: 21-A-I-Heat Pipes
Products Keywords: 2-O-3-f-Other HPs