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Engineering interest in cryogenic pressurant requirements is reflected by the appearance of a number of prediction equations and correlations in the literature. They range from the more elementary saturation rule to the empirical equations of Gluck and Kline [1] and the analytic closed-form solutions of the University of Michigan [2], An equation is presented by Epstein [3], based on computations from a generalized pressurization computer program [4,5], for the prediction of total pressurant requirements in cylindrical liquid hydrogen or oxygen tanks pressurized with evaporated propellant or helium, The equation, when compared with data, had a maximum deviation of 12% for a large number of relatively small tank experimental data from several investigators [3,6].
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Epstein, M., Anderson, R.E. (1995). An Equation for the Prediction of Cryogenic Pressurant Requirements for Axisymmetric Propellant Tanks. In: Timmerhaus, K.D. (eds) Advances in Cryogenic Engineering. Advances in Cryogenic Engineering, vol 13. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0516-4_23
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