Thermal performance evaluation and analysis of helium heat exchanger for cryogenic propellant launch vehicle

•Helium heat exchanger for a liquid propellant launch vehicle tested in full scale.•Experiments were performed with fuel-rich hot-gas and cryogenic helium as actual.•The effectiveness (ε) was analyzed and predicted with helium inlet temperature.•As the inlet temp. increase, the ε increased due to he...

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