Exergy or the available work energy function is a useful concept for analysing a Gifford-McMahon cycle. By definition, exergy of a state 1 is the maximum work that would be obtained in bringing the state to the dead state or ambient state for a heat engine. For a refrigerator, exergy is the minimum
System performance analysis of Gifford-McMahon cooler
โ Scribed by B.J. Huang; S.C. Chang
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1995
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 895 KB
- Volume
- 35
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0011-2275
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โฆ Synopsis
System performance analysis of a Gifford-McMahon
(GM) cooler was carried out using the half-cycle mean model of a regenerator and instantaneous solutions of the mass and momentum equations. A PC-based simulation package GMSYS was also developed for system design analysis of a single-stage GM cryocooler. It is shown experimentally that the predicted values agree very well with test results.
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