Development of a turbine-compressor for 10 kW class neon turbo-brayton refrigerator

Hirai Hirokazu, Hirokawa Masaki, Yoshida Shigeru, Sano Tomonobu, Ozaki Shinsuke

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Abstract

We are developing 10 kW class turbo-Brayton refrigerator whose working fluid is neon gas. Its high pressure value is 1 MPa and its low pressure value is 0.5 MPa. The refrigerator consists of two turbine-compressors and a heat exchanger. The turbine-compressor has a turbo-expander on one side of its shaft and a turbo-compressor on the other side of the shaft. Two turbo-compressors are connected in series and two turbo-expanders are set in parallel. So, all amount of neon gas is compressed by two stages and each half a mount of neon gas is expanded by one stage. Two turbinecompressors are the same machines and development cost and time are minimized. In this stage, we made one prototype turbine-compressor and installed it in a performance test facility. This paper shows details of the turbine-compressor and refrigerator cooling power simulation results.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Cryogenic Engineering - Transactions of the Cryogenic Engineering Conference - CEC, Volume 59
EditorsSusan Breon, Jennifer Marquardt, Thomas Peterson, Michael DiPirro, John Pfotenhauer, Jonathan Demko, James Fesmire, Arkadiy Klebaner, Sidney Yuan, Al Zeller, Peter Kittel, Gregory Nellis, Mark Zagarola
PublisherAmerican Institute of Physics Inc.
Pages1236-1241
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9780735412019
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2014
Externally publishedYes
Event2013 Joint Cryogenic Engineering and International Cryogenic Materials Conferences, CEC/ICMC 2013 - Anchorage, United States
Duration: Jun 17 2013Jun 21 2013

Publication series

NameAIP Conference Proceedings
Volume1573
ISSN (Print)0094-243X
ISSN (Electronic)1551-7616

Conference

Conference2013 Joint Cryogenic Engineering and International Cryogenic Materials Conferences, CEC/ICMC 2013
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityAnchorage
Period6/17/136/21/13

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Physics and Astronomy(all)

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