摘要:
An elongated cryogenic envelope including an outer tube and an inner tube coaxially spaced within said inner tube so that the space therebetween forms a vacuum chamber for holding a vacuum. The inner and outer tubes are provided with means for expanding or contracting during thermal changes. A shield is located in the vacuum chamber intermediate the inner and outer tubes; and, a refrigeration tube for directing refrigeration to the shield is coiled about at least a portion of the inner tube within the vacuum chamber to permit the refrigeration tube to expand or contract along its length during thermal changes within said vacuum chamber.
摘要:
A plurality of cryogenic envelope sections are joined together to form a power transmission line. Each of the sections is comprised of inner and outer tubes having multilayer metalized plastic spirally wrapped within a vacuum chamber formed between the inner and outer tubes. A refrigeration tube traverses the vacuum chamber, but exits one section and enters another through thermal standoffs for reducing heat-leak from the outer tube to the refrigeration tube. The refrigeration tube passes through a spirally wrapped shield within each section's vacuum chamber in a manner so that the refrigeration tube is in close thermal contact with the shield, but is nevertheless slideable with respect thereto.
摘要:
Method and apparatus for liquefying relatively large quantities of a cryogen, helium in particular. After the high-pressure fluid has been cooled through indirect heat exchange with a cold lowpressure stream it is isentropically expanded in an expansion engine. The rate of liquefaction may be increased by as much as 30 percent by substituting isentropic expansion for the conventional isenthalpic expansion.
摘要:
A cryogenic apparatus in which fluid is circulated between fluid chambers through a fluid flow path including two or more regenerators, the coldest regenerator being positioned in a tubing affixed to the cold end and around which a portion of the displacer moves to define a low-temperature refrigeration chamber. An intermediate-temperature refrigeration chamber is defined within the displacer, thus forming a two-staged device with a single displacer. The arrangement is suitable for multistage apparatus and is applicable to several different cycles.
摘要:
An oil and air cooled rotating spindle. By means of an oil flow path, heat sinks and air-cooled surfaces, the spindle during operation may be constantly maintained at or near ambient temperature thus preventing any changes in temperature of the apparatus rotated by the spindle and hence in any material contained in the apparatus.
摘要:
A rotary seal formed of a first rigid, low friction member which contacts a moving rigid member with minimal friction to make the dynamic seal, and a second elastomeric member which provides a resilient static seal and a spring action force between the surfaces of the dynamic seal. Means are provided to overcome any static friction or momentary aberrations encountered in startup. The seal is particularly suitable for centrifuges for continuous sterile operations such as in the treating of blood.
摘要:
A vuilleumier-cycle refrigeration system of the type including first and second communicating, sealed, cylindrical, vessels having first and second displacers respectively mounted therein in sliding, sealing contact with the inner walls thereof, includes magnetic linkage between the two displacers for driving the displacers within the sealed vessels without contaminating the sealed vessels. With regard to the magnetic linkage, there are smaller, auxiliary cylindrical vessels coupled respectively to the first and second vessels, having smaller diameters, and thinner walls than the first and second vessels. Rods attached to the displacers and extending into the auxiliary vessels have magnetic material followers attached thereto. Magnetic-material drivers are moveable along the auxiliary vessels, opposite the followers, to thereby attract and move the magnetic-material followers and their attached displacers.
摘要:
Refrigeration systems of the type including first and second communicating, sealed, cylindrical, vessels having respective first and second piston-like elements reciprocating axially therein are characterized by having the vessels positioned in a line along a single axis and having a rod or shaft extending along the axis through a sliding seal for connecting the piston-like elements. A coupling for connecting the rod with one of the piston-like elements allows "lost" axial motion of the rod, without a corresponding motion of the attached piston, over a first portion of the range of axial travel of the rod in both directions. An intercommunicating line is also included for intercommunicating appropriate ends of the elongated vessels.Such refrigeration systems can operate in various modes of operation, such as stirling-cycle modes of operation, and Vuilleumier-cycle modes of operation.
摘要:
A helium transfer line adapted to be constructed in extended lengths and to carry liquid helium and/or 4.2.degree.K helium gas with minimum loss of refrigeration capacity due to heat leaks into and through the line. The transfer line, in its basic structure, comprises a fluid helium process line, radiation shielding, vacuum jacketing and a cryogenic coolant line in thermal contact with the radiation shielding and carrying a cryogenic coolant such as liquid nitrogen. Line components, comprising heat-stationed bayonets with or without LN.sub.2 bypass lines, expansion/contraction joints, and flexible sections and, if desired, valves, ell-sections and tee-sections, are designed to be integrated into the basic structure so that this structure may be carried through essentially the entire length of the line. Various combinations of these components in the transfer line make it possible to adapt the transfer line to a wide range of requirements dictated by such factors as space, and the relative positions of the two or more points of connection, i.e., a source of liquid helium and a refrigeration load to be cooled by the liquid helium.
摘要:
A three-way valve suitable for controlling the flow of a cryogenic fluid and of isolating zones of widely different pressures. Concentric valve stems, each terminating in a sealing means capable of making a fluid-tight, line seal between a highpressure zone and an evacuated zone, are moved to alternately open ports to attain fluid communication with a third port. Means are provided to eliminate pressure differentials across the valve stem screw drive means to eliminate gas forces which would otherwise be present in a valve operating between zones of different pressures. The three-way valve is particularly suitable in high-pressure clean up systems incorporating cold charcoal traps in alternating parallel fluid flow paths.