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Glen
Research Center
1987 Phase II
Advanced Instrumentation
for Aircraft Icing Research
Aerometrics/TSI
Inc.
Shoreview, MN
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INNOVATION
An all weather instrument for measuring cloud droplets size and velocity
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ADA-100 Icing Probe of TSI
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ACCOMPLISHMENTS
- Phase Doppler technique was successfully
adapted to cloud droplet size and velocity measurement
- This instrument was successfully
tested in the NASA Glenn Research Center (GRC) Icing Tunnel
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COMMERCIALIZATION
- Further development of an advanced
Phase Doppler signal processor was done by Aerometrics/TSI, and is
presently being sold by TSI Inc.
- Aerometrics was acquired by TSI
in 1996
- Boeing purchased this instrument
system for cloud certification of their aircraft
- Two of these instrument systems
were purchased by the Italian Government and are currently being used
for calibrating their Icing Tunnel
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GOVERNMENT/SCIENCE
APPLICATIONS
- An advanced Phase Doppler signal
processor was developed under a $150K Phase III effort with GRC
- For use in the certification of
commercial aircraft
- For use in cloud physics studies,
including in-flight tests
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