TUNNEL COOLING FOR BYRD STATION, ANTARCTICA - 1968 PROGRESS REVIEW.

Byrd Station is an underground facility occupying snow tunnels in the continental ice shelf of Antarctica. An experimental supplementary snow-plenum air-cooling system is being installed in the principal heat-producing tunnel at this station towards maintaining the 0F design air temperature in this...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hoffman,Clark R.
Other Authors: NAVAL CIVIL ENGINEERING LAB PORT HUENEME CALIF
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 1969
Subjects:
Air Condition
Heating
Lighting & Ventilating
Structural Engineering and Building Technology
*UNDERGROUND STRUCTURES
SNOW
COOLING
ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE
VENTILATION
MAINTENANCE
HEAT
CONSTRUCTION
DEFORMATION
INSTRUMENTATION
MANOMETERS
STORAGE
MILITARY REQUIREMENTS
ANTARCTIC REGIONS
BYRD STATION
GRADIENTS
TEMPERATURE
UNDERSNOW CAMPS
WINTER
Antarctic
Byrd
Byrd Station
Antarc*
Antarctica
Ice Shelf
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0684788
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Summary:Byrd Station is an underground facility occupying snow tunnels in the continental ice shelf of Antarctica. An experimental supplementary snow-plenum air-cooling system is being installed in the principal heat-producing tunnel at this station towards maintaining the 0F design air temperature in this tunnel during summer. Military construction progress on the plenum during the summer of Deep Freeze 68 (DF-68) is presented along with instrumentation of the snow mass over the plenum by the Naval Civil Engineering Laboratory (NCEL). Transient temperature gradients based on winter temperatures in this snow mass are also presented for the winter of DF-68-69. NCEL observations on the Byrd tunnels during the summer of DF-68 are compared with other inspections at Byrd Station. These include air temperatures, ventilation and maintenance problems in both the heat-producing and nonheat-producing tunnels. (Author)

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