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A thermoacoustically driven pulse tube refrigerator capable of working below 120 K

✍ Scribed by T Jin; G.B Chen; Y Shen

Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 2001
Tongue: English
Weight: 416 KB
Volume: 41
Category: Article
ISSN: 0011-2275
DOI: 10.1016/s0011-2275(01)00131-x

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✦ Synopsis

Based on the discussion of the matching problems between the prime mover and pulse tube, a self-made standing-wave thermoacoustic prime mover is used to drive a coaxial single-stage pulse tube refrigerator. A lowest refrigeration temperature of 138 K was obtained from the preliminary tests in 1999. Then, some improvements have been made to the heat exchangers and the connection between prime mover and pulse tube. The minimum cooling temperatures of 119.7 and 117.6 K have been obtained from the recent experiments with helium and helium±argon mixture ®lling of 2.0 MPa as the working ¯uids, respectively. It is a great progress for the standing-wave machine and provides the possibility of liquefying natural gas of 0.2 MPa.

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