Air Heater
Equipment
The Air heater in the image is of the Pebble Bed type and was designed to supply heated air to the Supersonic Combustion Test Facility. It also served as a model heater for a larger heater developed for the hypersonic wind tunnel at the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), Trivandrum. It can supply air at the rate of 0.2 kgm per second at maximum air temperature of 350° C. The equipment was photographed at the Department of Aeronautical Engineering, IIT Madras.
Similar photographs can be found in album 0334: 001/0334/IMG_105798 & 001/0334/IMG_105804
Collection:
Central Photographic Section Collection
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Photograph ID:
001/0040/IMG_1152_1
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Date:
January 1976
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