Cryocoolers 9

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
An Overview of Air Force Phillips Laboratory Cryocooler Programs....Pages 1-9
A Case Study of a Successful Cryogenic Cooler Development Program....Pages 11-16
The DOD Family of Linear Drive Coolers for Weapon Systems....Pages 17-24
And What about Cryogenic Refrigeration?....Pages 25-27
Prototype Spacecraft Cryocooler Progress....Pages 29-34
Hughes Aircraft Company SSC I & II Performance Mapping Results....Pages 35-44
Development and Demonstration of the Creare 65 K Standard Spacecraft Cryocooler....Pages 45-53
Test Results for the Ball Single-Stage Advanced Flight Prototype Cryocooler....Pages 55-58
The Batch Manufacture of Stirling-Cycle Coolers for Space Applications Including Test, Qualification, and Integration Issues....Pages 59-68
System Test Performance for the Ball Two-Stage Stirling-Cycle Cryocooler....Pages 69-77
Improvements to the Cooling Power of a Space Qualified Two-Stage Stirling Cycle Cooler....Pages 79-88
Design and Development of a 20K Stirling-Cycle Cooler for FIRST....Pages 89-96
Path to Low Cost and High Reliability Stirling Coolers....Pages 97-108
Miniature Long Life Tactical Stirling Cryocoolers....Pages 109-118
Experimental and Predicted Performance of the BEI Mini-Linear Cooler....Pages 119-125
Space Qualification Test Plan Development, Implementation, and Results for the STRV-2 1.0-watt Tactical Cryocooler....Pages 127-138
Reduction of Surface Heat Pumping Effect in Split-Stirling Cryocoolers....Pages 139-146
A Stirling Cycle Analysis with Gas-Wall Heat Transfer in Compressor and Expander....Pages 147-156
Cyclic Simulation of Stirling Cryogenerator with Two-Component Two-Phase Fluid....Pages 157-162
Cryocooler Transient Performance Modeling....Pages 163-171
New Mid-Size High Efficiency Pulse Tube Coolers....Pages 173-182
Performance Characterization of the TRW 3503 and 6020 Pulse Tube Coolers....Pages 183-193
Performance of the AIRS Pulse Tube Engineering Model Cryocooler....Pages 195-202
Advanced Pulse Tube Cold Head Development....Pages 203-212
50–80K Pulse Tube Cryocooler Development....Pages 213-221
80 K Miniature Pulse Tube Refrigerator Performance....Pages 223-228
Development of a Low-Cost Cryocooler for HTS Applications....Pages 229-237
An Experimental Investigation of the Pulse Tube Refrigerator....Pages 239-245
Pulse-Tube Refrigerator and Nitrogen Liquefier with Active Buffer System....Pages 247-253
Two-Stage Double-Inlet Pulse Tube Refrigerator down to 10 K....Pages 255-260
Early Pulse Tube Refrigerator Developments....Pages 261-268
Phase Shift Effect of the Long Neck Tube for the Pulse Tube Refrigerator....Pages 269-278
Experimental Study on the Pulse Tube Refrigerator with Two Relief Valves....Pages 279-284
Experiments on the Effects of Pulse Tube Geometry on PTR Performance....Pages 285-293
An Experimental Investigation of a Single-Stage Two-Pulse-Tube Refrigerator....Pages 295-300
UCLA Pulse Tube Investigations....Pages 301-308
Reversible Cycle Piston Pulse Tube Cryocooler....Pages 309-318
Isothermal Model of a Warm Expander Pulse Tube....Pages 319-326
A Simple Modeling Program for Orifice Pulse Tube Coolers....Pages 327-334
A One-Dimensional Model of High-Frequency Pulse Tube Heat and Mass Flows....Pages 335-344
Higher Order Pulse Tube Modeling....Pages 345-353
Visualization Study of Velocity Profiles and Displacements of Working Gas Inside a Pulse Tube Refrigerator....Pages 355-364
Investigation of Radial Temperature and Velocity Profiles in Oscillating Flows Inside a Pulse Tube Refrigerator....Pages 365-374
An Experimental Investigation of How the Heat Pumping Mechanism in a Pulse Tube Changes with Frequency....Pages 375-383
DC Gas Flows in Stirling and Pulse Tube Cryocoolers....Pages 385-392
Convective Heat Losses in Pulse Tube Coolers: Effect of Pulse Tube Inclination....Pages 393-402
Advanced Compressor for Long-Life Cryocoolers....Pages 403-412
Flexure Bearing Analysis Procedures and Design Charts....Pages 413-420
Investigation of Gas Effects on Cryocooler Resonance Characteristics....Pages 421-430
Thermodynamic Comparison between the Orifice Pulse Tube and the Stirling Refrigerator....Pages 431-440
Application of the Periodic Temperature Variation Technique to the Measurement of Heat Transfer Coefficients in High-NTU Matrices....Pages 441-450
3-D Flow Model for Cryocooler Regenerators....Pages 451-458
Measurement of Heat Conduction through Stacked Screens....Pages 459-464
A Single Stage Reverse Brayton Cryocooler: Performance and Endurance Tests on the Engineering Model....Pages 465-474
Progress on the Development of Miniature Turbomachines for Low-Capacity Reverse-Brayton Cryocoolers....Pages 475-483
Experimental Study of the Isentropic Efficiency of the Pulse Tube Expansion Process....Pages 485-492
Joule-Thomson Cryocooler Development at Ball Aerospace....Pages 493-508
Low Cost Cryocoolers for Cryoelectronics....Pages 509-513
A Throttle Cycle Cryocooler Operating with Mixed Gas Refrigerants in 70 K to 120 K Temperature Range....Pages 515-520
80 K Throttle-Cycle Refrigerator Cost Reduction....Pages 521-528
Experimental Investigation of an Efficient Closed-Cycle Mixed-Refrigerant J-T Cooler....Pages 529-535
65 K Two-Stage MR/O 2 Throttle Cycle Refrigerator....Pages 537-546
Closed-Cycle Neon Refrigerator for High-Temperature Superconducting Magnets....Pages 547-555
Design and Testing of a Combined Stirling-Cycle Joule-Thomson Cryocooler System....Pages 557-566
Flight Demonstration of a 10 K Sorption Cryocooler....Pages 567-576
Continuous and Periodic Sorption Cryocoolers for 10 K and Below....Pages 577-586
Preliminary Test Results for a 25 K Sorption Cryocooler Designed for the UCSB Long Duration Balloon Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation Experiment....Pages 587-596
Experiments on a Charcoal/Nitrogen Sorption Compressor and Model Considerations....Pages 597-606
Low Cost Gifford-McMahon Cryocooler Development Program....Pages 607-615
Development of a 2W Class 4 K Gifford- McMahon Cycle Cryocooler....Pages 617-626
Geometric Scaling of a 4.2 K Gifford-McMahon Refrigerator....Pages 627-636
The Effect of Pressure Loss at Intake/Exhaust Valve on Performance of a 4K G-M Cryocooler....Pages 637-642
The Valve Timing Effect on Cooling Power of 4 K Gifford-McMahon Cryocooler....Pages 643-651
A Neodymium Plate Regenerator for Low-Temperature Gifford-McMahon Refrigerators....Pages 653-662
Influence of Alloying on the Behavior and Properties of Er 3 Ni....Pages 663-668
Processing and Testing of the Low-Temperature Stage Er 6 Ni 2 Sn Cryogenic Regenerator Alloy....Pages 669-674
Promising Refrigerants for the 4.2 — 20 K Region....Pages 675-679
The Los Alamos Solid-State Optical Refrigerator....Pages 681-686
Microcooling: Study on the Application of Micromechanical Techniques....Pages 687-696
Investigation into Vibration Issues of Sunpower M77 Cryocoolers....Pages 697-704
Summary and Results of Hughes Improved Standard Spacecraft Cryocooler Vibration Suppression Experiment....Pages 705-710
MOPITT Stirling Cycle Cooler Vibration Performance Results....Pages 711-718
Summary and Results of a Space-Based Active Cryocooler Vibration Suppression Experiment....Pages 719-726
Vibration Reduction in a Set-Up of Two Split Type Stirling Cryocoolers....Pages 727-736
Throttle Cycle Cooler Vibration Characterization....Pages 737-745
Development of a 60K Thermal Storage Unit....Pages 747-764
Temperature Stabilization on Cold Stage of 4 K G-M Cryocooler....Pages 765-771
Reduction of Parasitic Heat Loads to Cryogenically Cooled Components....Pages 773-782
Cryocooler Heat Interceptor Test for the SMTS Program....Pages 783-793
Feasibility Demonstration of a Thermal Switch for Dual Temperature IR Focal Plane Cooling....Pages 795-805
An Advanced Solderless Flexible Thermal Link....Pages 807-812
Development and Testing of a Demountable Cryocooler Thermal Interface....Pages 813-821
Thermal Conductance of Multilam Make and Break Cryocooler Thermal Interface....Pages 823-830
Heat Pipes for Enhanced Cooldown of Cryogenic Systems....Pages 831-839
Control Electronics Development for Space-Based Cryocoolers....Pages 841-852
Cooler Test Data Acquisition and Environmental Control Software....Pages 853-860
Cryogenic Systems Integration Model (CSIM)....Pages 861-872
Spacecraft Cryocooler System Integration Trades and Optimization....Pages 873-884
AIRS Cryocooler System Design and Development....Pages 885-894
AIRS Pulse Tube Cryocooler System....Pages 895-903
The Qualification and Use of Miniature Tactical Cryocoolers for Space Applications....Pages 905-915
The Design, Development and Qualification of the SCIAMACHY Radiant Cooler....Pages 917-923
Integration of HTS SQUIDs with Portable Cooling Devices for the Detection of Materials Defects in Non-Destructive Evaluation....Pages 925-934
Stirling Cooler Magnetic Interference Measured by a High-Tc SQUID Mounted on the Cold Tip....Pages 935-942
Cryocooler Integration with High Temperature Superconducting Motors....Pages 943-948
Integration of a Photoconductive Detector with a 4K Cryocooler....Pages 949-958
Back Matter....Pages 959-967