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- Patent Title: Active magnetic regenerative liquefier using process gas pre-cooling from bypass flow of heat transfer fluid
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Application No.: US15438529Application Date: 2017-02-21
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Publication No.: US10443928B2Publication Date: 2019-10-15
- Inventor: Jamie D. Holladay , Kerry D. Meinhardt , Evgueni Polikarpov , Edwin C. Thomsen , John Barclay , Jun Cui
- Applicant: Battelle Memorial Institute , John Barclay
- Applicant Address: US WA Richland
- Assignee: Battelle Memorial Institute
- Current Assignee: Battelle Memorial Institute
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Richland
- Agency: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP
- Main IPC: F25J1/02
- IPC: F25J1/02 ; F25J1/00 ; F25B21/00

Abstract:
A process for liquefying a process gas that includes: introducing a heat transfer fluid into an active magnetic regenerative refrigerator apparatus that includes a low magnetic or demagnetized field section; continuously diverting a bypass portion of the heat transfer fluid from a cold side of the low magnetic or demagnetized field section into a bypass flow heat exchanger at a first cold inlet temperature; and continuously introducing the process gas into the bypass flow heat exchanger at a first hot inlet temperature and discharging the process gas or liquid from the bypass flow heat exchanger at a first cold exit temperature; wherein the temperature difference between bypass heat transfer first cold inlet temperature and the process gas first cold exit temperature is 1 to 5 K.
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