Technique for Mitigating Propellant Tank Self-Particulate Generation by a PMD

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Patent No.
8,899,974
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Device or Machine

A propellant management device comprising a plurality of insert vanes with respective outwardly extending curved flanges is disposed in a propellant tank with the curved flanges having mating contact along contacting lines on the interior of the tank as the insert vanes serves to wick fuel within the tank with reduced particulate generation within the tank for improved reliability and use of the propellant tank.

Keywords: propellant, tank
International Class: F23D14/00, F02K9/60