BIPS Turboalternator-Compressor Characteristics and Application to the NASA Solar Dynamic Ground Demonstration Program

Experimental data for two different alternator configurations in a solar Brayton power system

“…The mini-Brayton Rotating Unit (mini-BRU) and recuperator developed and tested in the early 1970's BIPS Program was used to convert the thermal energy from the heat receiver into electrical power (Amundsen and Harper, 1993 (Post, 1993). The PCCU electrical control layout is shown in figure 3.…”