A 100-W grade closed-cycle thermosyphon cooling system used in HTS rotating machines
A 100-W grade closed-cycle thermosyphon cooling system used in HTS rotating machines
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DOI:
10.1063/1.4706947
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发表时间:
2012-06
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影响因子:
2.6
通讯作者:
B. Felder;M. Miki;K. Tsuzuki;N. Shinohara;H. Hayakawa;M. Izumi
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作者:
B. Felder;M. Miki;K. Tsuzuki;N. Shinohara;H. Hayakawa;M. Izumi
The cooling systems used for rotating High-Temperature Superconducting (HTS) machines need a cooling power high enough to ensure a low temperature during various utilization states. Radiation, torque tube or current leads represent hundreds of watts of invasive heat. The architecture also has to allow the rotation of the refrigerant. In this paper, a free-convection thermosyphon using two Gifford-McMahon (GM) cryocoolers is presented. The cryogen is mainly neon but helium can be added for an increase of the heat transfer coefficient. The design of the heat exchangers was first optimized with FEM thermal analysis. After manufacture, they were assembled for preliminary experiments and the necessity of annealing was studied for the copper parts. A single evaporator was installed to evaluate the thermal properties of such a heat syphon. The maximum bearable static heat load was also investigated, but was not reached even at 150 W of load. Finally, this cooling system was tested in the cooling down of a 100-kW...