Conveners
C1Or1C - Non-Aerospace Cryocooler Modelling and Studies
- Ryan Taylor (Ball Aerospace and Technologies)
- Wei Dai (Key Laboratory of Cryogenics, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
There are three parts of the gas moving through the pulse tube of the pulse tube cryocooler, part I is the gas moving between the cold heat exchanger and the pulse tube, part II is the gas oscillating in the pulse tube all the time, part III is the gas moving between the pulse tube and the warm heat exchanger. The part of the gas that always moves in the pulse tube acts the same function of a...
Pneumatically-driven displacer mechanisms are widely used in Gifford-McMahon (G-M) cryocoolers. Particularly for large size G-M cryocoolers, this type of drive is preferable compared to the scotch yoke type, as only a small motor is required for driving the rotary valve and, therefore, the entire cryocooler can be very compact. Though various numerical models of G-M cryocoolers have been...
Regenerators are key components of pulse tube cryocoolers and losses in regenerators have a significant effect on the performance of cryocoolers. In previous studies, the efficiency of regenerators have been characterized mostly based on the first law of thermodynamics, and second-law analyses have been based on exergy considerations or irreversibility associated with macroscopic flow...
The space-cycle averaged Nusselt number is used to characterize the heat transfer process of cold end heat exchanger in cryocoolers working with cryogenic helium oscillating flow. An experimental setup for cryogenic oscillating flow heat transfer measurement is designed and established to simulate actual operating conditions of cold-end heat exchanger of a regenerative refrigerator. The...
