Electric Propulsion

Concepts and Implementations

Mariano Andrenucci (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

500 Seiten

2024
Academic Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-12-819430-0 (ISBN)

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Electric Propulsion: Concepts and Implementations discusses the core elements of an EP system with classic ion and hall thrusters, also including more recent thrusters (electrothermal, electromagnetic, and magnetoplasmadynamic) and an overview of system aspects affecting interface requirements and constraints. The book concludes with the development of electric micropropulsion and the future of space propulsion. It is ideal for an industrial audience from the aerospace sector who have an engineering or physics background and for specialist roles in propulsion system and component analysis, design and testing, project management, space system engineering, mission analysis and design. Electric propulsion is a widely used technology on spacecraft, with half of all new satellites carrying full electric propulsion. In spite of the advancements over the last decades, there lacks a familiarity with EP thrusters and systems and EP technology mission enabling and enhancing benefits. This book provides these concepts in their latest developments such as hall thrusters and the broadening range of EP applications, both at lower (microsats) and larger (exploration, space transportation) power levels.

Dr. Andrenucci is a professor of Electric Propulsion at the University of Pisa, where he has been on the Faculty of Engineering since 1977. Visiting professor of Spacecraft Propulsion at Syracuse University, USA, in 1983. General Chairman of the International Electric Propulsion Conference in 1991 and in 2007. Founder of the Centrospazio Research Centre in Pisa in 1989. Founder of the Alta company in the year 2000, later to become SITAEL (2015). Awardee of the ERPS Ernst Stuhlinger Medal for Oustanding Achievement in Electric Propulsion in 2011. Research Fields: Electric Rocket Propulsion, chemical rocket propulsion, energy conversion, orbital mechanics, space systems. Has authored or co-authored over 200 scientific publications, mainly in the propulsion sector.

1. Electric Propulsion Past, Present and Future2. Introductory Premises3. General Theory of Electric Thrusters4. Gridded Ion Thrusters5. Hall Thrusters6. Hollow Cathodes for Ion and Hall Thrusters7. Electrothermal Thrusters8. Electromagnetic Thrusters9. Applications and Systems Aspects10. Final ConsiderationsAppendixA. Basic Plasma PhysicsB. Testing Procedures, Facilities and DiagnosticsC. Physical Constants and Conversion Factors

Erscheinungsdatum	03.01.2024
Verlagsort	San Diego
Sprache	englisch
Maße	191 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Technik ► Fahrzeugbau / Schiffbau
	Technik ► Luft- / Raumfahrttechnik
	Technik ► Maschinenbau
ISBN-10	0-12-819430-8 / 0128194308
ISBN-13	978-0-12-819430-0 / 9780128194300
Zustand	Neuware