{"id":6146,"date":"2018-06-11T06:01:43","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T05:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uosdesign.org\/designshow2018\/?post_type=portfolio_item&p=6146"},"modified":"2018-06-26T07:44:33","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T06:44:33","slug":"neutraliser-for-ion-thruster","status":"publish","type":"portfolio_item","link":"https:\/\/uosdesign.org\/designshow2018\/project\/neutraliser-for-ion-thruster\/","title":{"rendered":"Neutraliser for Ion Thruster"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Discharge Chamber is critical for containing the plasma and facilitating ion recombination<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Neutraliser assembly, mounted to the test rig prior to vacuum chamber testing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Faraday Cage Base creates the framework to assemble the complete Faraday Cage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Reservoir Plate supplies Argon propellant to the Neutraliser through four nozzles, spaced at 90 degree intervals<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Exploded view of the Neutraliser and its components<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The ignition of the Neutraliser demonstrates the successful modelling, simulation and design conducted throughout the course of the project. This image shows the ignited plasma within the discharge chamber, observed through the orifice plate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The development, manufacture, and testing of a neutraliser for XSEPT, the university gridded ion thruster project<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6126,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"portfolio":[58,38,50,48],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uosdesign.org\/designshow2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_item\/6146"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uosdesign.org\/designshow2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_item"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uosdesign.org\/designshow2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/portfolio_item"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uosdesign.org\/designshow2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uosdesign.org\/designshow2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uosdesign.org\/designshow2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uosdesign.org\/designshow2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"portfolio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uosdesign.org\/designshow2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio?post=6146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}