Stirling Cycle & Pulse Tube Cryocooler Performances

该项目旨在评估用于空间应用的斯特林循环和脉冲管制冷机的性能。低温冷却器构成了低温学更广泛领域的一部分，其中仪器和设备被积极地渲染到低温温度。第一台斯特林循环制冷机是80年代在牛津大学开发的，此后在世界各地得到了极大的创新。空间仪器的低温冷却使探索和天文研究的科学有效载荷日益复杂化。冷却器将在各种关键性能和热输出方面进行优化和测试，为一个非常新颖的领域和不断发展的科学航天器仪器做出贡献。该项目属于EPSRC的研究领域，是与英国霍尼韦尔Hymatic公司的合作成果。

This project looks to assess the performance of Stirling cycle and pulse tube cryocoolers for space applications. Cryocoolers form part of the wider field of cryogenics, where instruments and equipment are actively rendered to cryogenic temperatures. The first Stirling cycle cryocooler was developed at Oxford in the 80s and has since been greatly innovated throughout the World. Cryocooling of space instruments permits the ever increasing sophistication of scientific payloads for exploration and astronomical research. The coolers will be optimised and tested in terms of a variety of key performance and thermal output aspects, for contribution to a very novel field and ever-evolving set of scientific spacecraft instruments. This project falls within the EPSRC research area and is a collaborative effort with Honeywell Hymatic, UK.