Development of a flexible thermal control device with high-thermal- conductivity graphite sheets

摘要

This paper describes a new passive thermal control device -a Reversible Thermal Panel (RTP) -which changes its function reversibly from a radiator to a solar absorber by deploying/stowing the radiator/absorber reversible fin. The RTP consists of Highly Oriented Graphite Sheets (HOGSs), which have characteristics of high thermal conductivity, flexibility and light weight, as thermal transport units, which can transport the heat from equipment to reversible fin, and of a Shape -