Advances in Cryogenic Engineering: Proceedings of the 1969 Cryogenic Engineering Conference University of California at Los Angeles, June 16–18, 1969

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Liquefied Natural Gas—A Broad Perspective....Pages 1-7
Mixed Refrigerant Cascade Liquefiers for Natural Gas—Design and Optimization....Pages 8-17
Computer Simulation of Natural Gas Liquefaction Plant Processes....Pages 18-27
Design Considerations for a Liquefied Natural Gas Pipeline....Pages 28-35
The Vapor Pressure of Liquid Fluorine....Pages 36-41
A Multipurpose Phase Equilibrium Apparatus to Study Mixtures of Cryogenic Fluids: Application to Argon-Methane....Pages 42-45
Adsorption Kinetics in a Ternary System Containing Hydrogen....Pages 46-49
The P-V-T Surface of Oxygen in the Critical Region; Densities of Saturated Liquid and Vapor....Pages 50-57
Thermal Conductivity Measurements on Fluid Hydrogen at 17 to 200°K and Pressures to 10 MN/m 2 ....Pages 58-64
Refractive Index of Liquid Deuterium....Pages 65-69
Measurements of the Dielectric Constant of Saturated Liquid Oxygen....Pages 70-75
The Dielectric Strength of Cryogenic Fluids and Solid Insulators....Pages 76-84
Low-Temperature Electrical Resistivity of Some Engineering Alloys....Pages 85-90
Tear Tests of 5083 Plate and of 5183 Welds in 5083 Plate and Extrusions....Pages 91-101
Tensile Properties of Various Materials at Cryogenic Temperatures....Pages 102-108
Cryostat and Strain Measurement for Tensile Tests to 1.5°K....Pages 109-116
Magnetic Suspension and Guidance for High-Speed Trains by Means of Superconducting Magnets and Eddy Currents....Pages 117-123
A Superconducting (Nb-Ti) Liquid Helium Level Detector....Pages 124-131
The Design of a Rotating Dewar and Field Winding for a Superconducting Alternator....Pages 132-140
Construction of the 12-Foot Bubble Chamber Superconducting-Magnet Cryostat....Pages 141-149
Refrigeration Aspects of the ANL 12-Foot Bubble Chamber Superconducting-Magnet System....Pages 150-157
BIM, A Large 10-MJ Magnet....Pages 158-166
The Design and Operation of an 88-kG 20-in.-Bore Superconducting Magnet System....Pages 167-177
Performance Tests of 51-cm-Bore Superconductive Magnets for a Magnetic-Mirror Apparatus....Pages 178-183
Force-Reduced Superconducting Toroidal Magnet Coils....Pages 184-189
The Detection of Transitions in Superconducting Coils....Pages 190-196
Survey of Heat Transfer to Near-Critical Fluids....Pages 197-237
Forced-Convection Heat Transfer to Nitrogen in the Vicinity of the Critical Point....Pages 238-247
Heat Transfer to Freon-12 in the Near-Critical Regime....Pages 248-249
Nucleate Boiling of Nitrogen, Argon, and Carbon Monoxide from Atmospheric to Near the Critical Pressure....Pages 250-258
Transient Pool Boiling of Liquid Nitrogen Due to a Square-Wave Heat Flux....Pages 259-270
Heat Transfer Coefficient Measurements of Liquid Nitrogen Drops Undergoing Film Boiling....Pages 271-282
Estimation of Film-Boiling Heat Transfer Coefficients for Cylindrical Heaters in Corresponding-States Fluids....Pages 283-285
Saturated Film Boiling of Nitrogen from Atmospheric to the Critical Pressure....Pages 286-289
Peak Heat Flux Density of Superfluid He II in Insulated Vertical Channels with Closed Ends and Wells....Pages 290-298
Correlation of the Depth Effect on Film-Boiling Heat Transfer in Liquid Helium II....Pages 299-307
Condensation Studies of Saturated Nitrogen Vapors....Pages 308-315
Heat-Exchanger Design for Rocket-Borne Cryogenic Air Samplers....Pages 316-323
A Guarded Electrical Cylindrical Calorimeter for Measuring Thermal-Conductivity of Multilayer Insulation....Pages 324-331
An Analytical Model for Determining the Thermal Conductivity of Closed-Cell Foam Insulation....Pages 332-342
Pressure Characteristics of Perlite Insulation in Double-Wall Tanks under Repeated Thermal Cycling....Pages 343-345
Cooldown Flow Rate Limits Imposed by Thermal Stresses in Liquid Hydrogen or Nitrogen Pipelines....Pages 346-353
Cooldown Transients in Cryogenic Transfer Lines....Pages 354-363
A Time-Delay Analog for Thermal-Acoustic Oscillations....Pages 364-367
Automatic Control of Flow Oscillations in Cryogenic Fluid Heat Exchangers....Pages 368-377
Pressure Drop of Two-Phase Flow in a Pipeline with Longitudinal Variations in Heat Flux....Pages 378-381
Slush Hydrogen Flow Characteristics and Solid Fraction Upgrading....Pages 382-390
300-scfm Helium Repurifier System....Pages 391-398
High-Purity Products from an Air Separation Plant....Pages 399-405
Rectisol: A Low-Temperature Scrubbing Process for Gas Purification....Pages 406-414
Applications of Helium to Very-Low-Temperature Refrigeration....Pages 415-421
Simon Helium Liquefaction Method Using a Refrigerator and Thermal Valve....Pages 422-427
Operation and Application of a Three-Stage Closed-Cycle Regenerative Refrigerator in the 6.5°K Region....Pages 428-435
Low-Temperature Regenerator Test Apparatus....Pages 436-442
Joule-Thomson Hydrogen Refrigerator Target....Pages 443-446
Miniature Vuilleumier-Cycle Refrigerator....Pages 447-451
J-T Liquefaction of Hydrogen-Hydrocarbon Gas Mixtures....Pages 452-456
Frost Formation on a Cylinder at Cryogenic Temperatures....Pages 457-462
An Experimental Study of the Density of Cryodeposited Surfaces....Pages 463-466
Preparation and Characterization of Slush Hydrogen and Nitrogen Gels....Pages 467-475
Back Matter....Pages 477-484