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An apparatus for removing heat from a thermally highly loaded structure, such as a spacecraft or hypersonic aircraft, is based on an endothermic reaction, and particularly the water gas synthesis reaction. A system of pipes (2) is arranged in the areas of the structure that are to be cooled. The pip

An apparatus for removing heat from a thermally highly loaded structure, such as a spacecraft or hypersonic aircraft, is based on an endothermic reaction, and particularly the water gas synthesis reaction. A system of pipes (2) is arranged in the areas of the structure that are to be cooled. The pipes (2) are filled with a carbon core that includes passages through which steam passes, to react with the carbon and generate water gas. The system preferably includes a steam generator that uses some of the heat from the areas to be cooled for generating the steam that is conveyed through the carbon filled pipes (2).

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An apparatus for removing heat from a thermally loaded structure having a heated portion, said apparatus comprising a pipe that is arranged at said heated portion and that has a water steam, inlet into an interior of said pipe, a water steam generator connected to said water steam inlet of said pipe

An apparatus for removing heat from a thermally loaded structure having a heated portion, said apparatus comprising a pipe that is arranged at said heated portion and that has a water steam, inlet into an interior of said pipe, a water steam generator connected to said water steam inlet of said pipe, and a reducing agent provided in said interior of said pipe such that said reducing agent will be in direct contact with water steam-introduced into said interior of said pipe from said steam generator, and such that an endothermic chemical reaction will take place between said water steam and said reducing agent using said heat removed from said thermally loaded structure.