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Thermal insulation of cryogenic, moderate diameter pipelines

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Different methods of superposing thermal insulation were tested on a 3-mm-diameter liquid-nitrogen pipeline and the influence of different factors on the heat-transfer components through screen-vacuum thermal insulation (SVTI) was studied experimentally.

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Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 47, No. 1, pp. 64–71, July, 1984.

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Kurskaya, T.A., Getmanets, V.F. & Grigorenko, B.V. Thermal insulation of cryogenic, moderate diameter pipelines. Journal of Engineering Physics 47, 791–796 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00832594

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