Test Facility

SPhTI has a powerful test facility for conducting various sorts of characteristic tests for products under development:

Experimental vacuum electronic stand for thermal and electrophysical testing of thermionic converters, as well as their elements and units
Vacuum chamber size: 1500 mm in diameter and 2500 mm high.
Interstitial gas pressure in the vacuum chamber 10-4 mm of mercury
Interstitial gas pressure in the product item 10-7 mm of mercury.
Self-contained system of water cooling.
High current source 0-300 A.
Total power of thermal radiators 40 kWt

Experimental vacuum-tube stand for life-time and electro-physical testing of thermionic converters
Vacuum chamber size: diameter 800 mm, height 1500 mm
Interstitial gas pressure in the vacuum chamber 10-5 mm of mercury
Interstitial gas pressure in the product item 10-7 mm of mercury
System of working fluid (cesium, etc.)delivery into the device under test.
System of helium, gas mixture delivery into the displacement volume
Self-contained system of water cooling
High current source 0-300 A.
Total power of thermal radiators 20 kWt

Experimental vacuum tube stand for electrophysical testing of thermionic converters' elements and units (feed-through plates, ceramic-metal insulators, heating elements, etc.)
Vacuum chamber size: 600 mm in diameter and 1200 mm high.
Interstitial gas pressure in the vacuum chamber 10-5 mm of mercury
Interstitial gas pressure in the product item 10-7 mm of mercury
System of working fluid (cesium, etc.) delivery into the device under test.
System of helium, gas mixture delivery into the displacement volume High current source 0-100 A.
Total power of thermal radiators 10 kWt

Automated system set-up for material thermoelectric performance measurements in a wide range of temperatures

Set-up for thermoelectric performance measurements of switching legs in the operating temperature differential

Set-up for efficiency measurements and other output characteristics of thermoelectric batteries

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