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Performance Study on ST/JT

Hybrid Cryocooler working at


liquid helium temperature

Babloo Kumar Lohra- 14ME112


Abhishek Gupta- 14ME202
Pritesh Kumar Singh- 14ME254
ABSTRACT

The ST/JT hybrid cryocooler consists of a Stirling type cryocooler and a J-T
loop. The common process of steady state operation is given. Pressure
enthalpy map analysis and thermodynamic calculation show how the
precooling temperature , high pressure and recuperate effectiveness affect
the cooling power at liquid helium temperature. Applying the current
Performance level of the Stirling cooler, the overall COP of the hybrid
cryocooler is roughly optimized. This performance study shows that the hybrid
cryocooler can develop its performance potential with improved J-T
compressor with larger pressure ratio and a precooled working at lower
temperature.
INTRODUCTION

The ST/JT hybrid space cryocooler, which constist of a stirling type cryocooler
serving as a precooler and a JT loop, have been the main cooling technology
working at liquid helium temperature (around 4K) for long life space mission.
It is used to directly cool the detectors or precool the other cryocooler which
work at lower temperature.
For the required cooling power, better performance means less power
consumption, which may reduce the weight and volume of cryocooler and the
energy supplied equipment.
It is meaningful to the space mission. So this paper studies the performance
of the hybrid cryocooler and gives the required for improving the
performance.
Common Process and key unit
Reference
Performance Study on ST/JT Hybrid Cryocoolers Working at Liquid Helium
Temperature- Liu Dongli, Tao Xuan, Sun Xiao, Gan Zhihua
Z.H. Gan, B. Wang, D.L. Liu, et al.Status and development trends of space
mechanical refrigeration system at liquid helium temperature,Journal of
Zhejiang University (Engineering Science, in Chinese)
D.R. Ladner, Performance, vs. MassOperating Temperature for Pulse Tube
and StirlingCryocoolers-Cryocoolers 16. Boulder (2011), pp. 633-644

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