EP2085720A2 - Kryogenbehälter mit eingebautem Kühlaggregat - Google Patents

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EP2085720A2
EP2085720A2 EP09000684A EP09000684A EP2085720A2 EP 2085720 A2 EP2085720 A2 EP 2085720A2 EP 09000684 A EP09000684 A EP 09000684A EP 09000684 A EP09000684 A EP 09000684A EP 2085720 A2 EP2085720 A2 EP 2085720A2
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
    • F25B—REFRIGERATION MACHINES, PLANTS OR SYSTEMS; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS
    • F25B9/00—Compression machines, plants or systems, in which the refrigerant is air or other gas of low boiling point
    • F25B9/14—Compression machines, plants or systems, in which the refrigerant is air or other gas of low boiling point characterised by the cycle used, e.g. Stirling cycle
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
    • F25D—REFRIGERATORS; COLD ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; COOLING OR FREEZING APPARATUS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F25D19/00—Arrangement or mounting of refrigeration units with respect to devices or objects to be refrigerated, e.g. infrared detectors
    • F25D19/006—Thermal coupling structure or interface
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
    • F25B—REFRIGERATION MACHINES, PLANTS OR SYSTEMS; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS
    • F25B21/00—Machines, plants or systems, using electric or magnetic effects
    • F25B21/02—Machines, plants or systems, using electric or magnetic effects using Peltier effect; using Nernst-Ettinghausen effect
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
    • F25B—REFRIGERATION MACHINES, PLANTS OR SYSTEMS; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS
    • F25B25/00—Machines, plants or systems, using a combination of modes of operation covered by two or more of the groups F25B1/00 - F25B23/00
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F25—REFRIGERATION OR COOLING; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE OR STORAGE OF ICE; LIQUEFACTION SOLIDIFICATION OF GASES
    • F25B—REFRIGERATION MACHINES, PLANTS OR SYSTEMS; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS
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  • the present invention relates to a cryogenic container with a built-in refrigerator.
  • Document 1 Japanese Patent Laid-open No Hei 11-87131 discloses a refrigerator system, wherein a cryogenic part of a refrigerator and a obj ect to be cooled are disposed in a vacuum vessel to prevent heat leak from a room temperature area in order to keep the object at a lower temperature when the object to be cooled such as a superconducting magnet is cooled to a cryogenic temperature.
  • the refrigerator should be very small.
  • FIG. 4 shows an example of refrigerator cooling performance.
  • the figure shows refrigerator cooling performance in relation to refrigerator cooling temperature where a parameter is an ambient temperature for the refrigerator, or a temperature of helium gas as a cooling medium at an inlet of the refrigerator in cooling operation in the environment in which the refrigerator is installed.
  • a parameter is an ambient temperature for the refrigerator, or a temperature of helium gas as a cooling medium at an inlet of the refrigerator in cooling operation in the environment in which the refrigerator is installed.
  • the superconducting magnet cooling temperature is 48 K at the ambient temperature Tr of 296 K but it is 55 K at the ambient temperature of 318 K in summer.
  • the superconducting magnet is prepared by magnetizing a cylindrical yttrium oxide bulk superconductor in a high magnetic field, an intensity of the magnetized field sharply decreases when the bulk superconductor cooling temperature exceeds 50 K.
  • the intensity of the magnetized field is 6 Tesla at the bulk superconductor cooling temperature of 48 K but it is 4 Tesla at the bulk superconductor cooling temperature of 55 K, leading to a serious decline in the magnetic field performance of the superconducting magnet.
  • the magnetic field intensity will remain 4 Tesla, namely the magnetic field performance will remain low.
  • the superconducting magnet cooling temperature is 45 K and the intensity of the magnetized field goes up to 6.5 Tesla.
  • the gas is heated to approximately 353 K by compression heat and if this heat is directly or indirectly discharged to the room, the ambient temperature as shown in FIG. 4 may actually become 10-20 K higher than the room temperature.
  • the inlet temperature of the helium gas as the cooling medium for the refrigerator may be higher than the room temperature and the cooling temperature of the refrigerator may be higher than when the inlet temperature of the refrigerator is lower than the room temperature.
  • the helium gas heated by the compression heat is cooled by cooling water whose temperature is lower than the room temperature, so that the helium gas inlet temperature is made lower than the room temperature before the gas is supplied to the refrigerator.
  • Document 2 Japanese Patent Laid-open No. 2004-144399 discloses a means for controlling a temperature using an electronic device such as a Peltier element without using cooling water.
  • This means comprises a refrigerating cycle using carbon dioxide as a refrigerant, where a motive energy recovered by an expansion device is used for refrigerant heat exchange between a dissipating heat exchanger in an atmospheric air and an outlet of the expansion device using the Peltier element.
  • Document 3 Japanese Patent Laid-open No. 2002-181437 discloses a means for dissipating exhaust heat from a compressor of a refrigerator system through a heat pipe.
  • a cryogenic part and a hot part of the refrigerator are disposed in a hermetically sealed case in order to prevent penetration of raindrops and a heat dissipating part for the heat pipe is provided outside the case, and the hot part and the heat dissipating part are connected by the heat pipe.
  • the heat in the hot part is discharged through the cooling medium in the heat pipe to an atmosphere of a room temperature and the temperature of the hot part is always kept higher than the room temperature. In this means as well, no dew condensation occurs since the refrigerant used for the temperature control is higher than the room temperature.
  • the cooling temperature of the refrigerator is higher than when the temperature of the cooling medium at the inlet of the refrigerator is lower than the room temperature.
  • the air temperature inside the case is always higher than the room temperature and there is more heat leak into the cryogenic part of the refrigerator than the air temperature inside the case is equal to the room temperature, leading to a temperature rise in a cooling part of the refrigerator.
  • An obj ect of the present invention is to provide a cryogenic container with a built-in refrigerator capable of cooling an object to a cryogenic temperature, wherein a temperature of a heat dissipating surface of a compressing part of the refrigerator is decreased to a level lower than the room temperature to improve an efficiency of the refrigerator, and also a temperature of a cooling medium at an inlet of the refrigerator is controlled to a level lower than the room temperature without causing a dew condensation on an outer surface of the cryogenic container and heat leak into the refrigerator from the room temperature area is reduced to keep the cooling temperature of the refrigerator low enough.
  • a cryogenic container with a built-in refrigerator comprises the refrigerator having a first heat absorbing part and a first heat dissipating part, a vacuum vessel for containing and thermally insulating an object to be cooled while holding the object at a cryogenic temperature through the first heat absorbing part of the refrigerator, and a pre-cooling unit having a second heat absorbing part and a second heat dissipating part for cooling the first heat dissipating part, wherein the first heat dissipating part and the second heat absorbing part are arranged inside the vacuum vessel, and a part of a heat dissipating unit including the second heat dissipating part is exposed outside the vacuum vessel.
  • the refrigerator efficiency can be improved by cooling a heat dissipating surface of the first heat dissipating part of the refrigerator to a level lower than the room temperature. Furthermore, since the compressing part of the refrigerator to be pre-cooled by the pre-cooling unit to the temperature lower than the room temperature is contained inside the vacuum space, there is no possibility that condensation of moisture in the air occurs and thus electric short-circuiting due to dew condensation and failures due to dew condensation in transportation can be prevented.
  • a cryogenic container with a built-in refrigerator is characterized in that it uses gas as a cooling medium and comprises a compressing part and a vacuum vessel.
  • the compressing part has a function of compressing the coolingmedium mechanically and comprises a first heat dissipating part.
  • a vacuum vessel contains the refrigerator including a first heat absorbing part for generating cryogenic energy by adiabatic expansion of the cooling medium, and an object to be cooled and kept at a cryogenic temperature by the refrigerator, and insulates the refrigerator and the object. Further, A vacuum vessel contains a pre-cooling unit for cooling the first heat dissipating part. And the cryogenic container with a built-in refrigerator can discharge exhaust heat from the pre-cooling unit to the air.
  • the cryogenic container with the built-in refrigerator according to the present invention is also characterized in that the helium gas at the inlet of the refrigerator is cooled to a temperature lower than the room temperature in order to decrease its cooling temperature. Further, an isolating means for isolating the refrigerator inlet portion for helium gas from the air is arranged in the cryogenic container and a space inside the isolating means is an insulating space and the thermally conductive medium in the insulating space is removed.
  • the cryogenic container with the built-in refrigerator according to the present invention is also characterized in that the pre-cooling unit for cooling the helium gas as the refrigerator cooling medium at the refrigerator inlet to a level lower than the room temperature is located inside the insulating space, and a hot part of the pre-cooling unit with a temperature higher than the roomtemperature and a partition for constituting the isolating means and being contact with the air are thermally connected by a thermally conductive member with a high thermal conductivity.
  • a leak of a heat into a cooling part of the pre-cooling unit is prevented by dissipating the heat of the hot part of the pre-cooling unit through the partition (room temperature) to the air, and a rise of the temperature of the helium gas at the refrigerator inlet is controlled.
  • the cryogenic container with the built-in refrigerator according to the present invention is characterized in that a high insulating performance with a small space is assure by evacuating the insulating space, and discharging air and keeping a vacuum condition prevent combustion or ignition even if the temperature inside the space is higher. And a compact and fireproof cryogenic container is obtained thereby.
  • FIG. 1 is a sectional view illustrating a small superconducting magnet system wherein an object to be cooled is a cylindrical yttrium-based bulk superconductor including Y (yttrium), Ba (barium), Cu (copper) and O (oxygen).
  • a cryogenic container with a built-in refrigerator is a small and light container for cooling a bulk superconductor 1 as the object to be cooled.
  • This cryogenic container with the built-in refrigerator contains a Stirling refrigerator as a cooling means for cooling the object, the Stirling refrigerator generating cryogenic energy by compressing helium gas as a cooling medium and adiabatically expanding the compressed helium gas.
  • the refrigerator comprises a cooling part 2, a compressing part 3, a pre-cooling stage 4 included in the compressing part 3 for dissipating a compression heat of the compressing part 3 to an outside of the refrigerator, a thermally conductive plate 5 located in contact with the pre-cooling stage 4, a Peltier element 6 as a pre-cooling unit located in contact with the thermally conductive plate 5, a thermally conductive plate 7 located in contact with a hot heat dissipating surface of the Peltier element 6, a vacuum vessel 10, a thermally conductive plate 9 located in contact with an inner wall of the vacuum vessel 10, and a copper net 8 located in contact with the thermally conductive plate 7 and thermally conductive plate 9.
  • the pre-cooling stage 4 cools the compressing part 3 of the refrigerator in combination with the thermally conductive plate 5 by transferring the heat generated in the compressing part 3 to the cooling surface of the Peltier element 6.
  • the hot helium gas without expanding inside the compressing part 3 is thus cooled.
  • the cooling part 2 of the refrigerator is defined as a first heat absorbing part.
  • the pre-cooling stage 4 included in the compressing part 3 of the refrigerator is defined as a first heat dissipating part.
  • the cooling surface of the Peltier element 6 for cooling the pre-cooling stage 4 is defined as a second heat absorbing part.
  • a hot heat dissipating surface of the Peltier element 6 is defined as a second heat dissipating part.
  • the copper net 8 is a thermally conductive member for transferring the exhaust heat of the Peltier element 6 from the thermally conductive plate 7 to the thermally conductive plate 9.
  • This thermally conductive member is not limited to the copper net 8 but may be any flexible member with a high thermal conductivity such as a bundle of copper wires, an aluminumnet or a bundle of aluminum wires. It shouldbe flexible enough to absorb vibrations of the refrigerator and reduce vibrations transmitted to an outside of the vacuum vessel 10 and prevent collapse due to vibrations of the refrigerator.
  • the thermally conductive plate 9 is tightly fixed on the inner wall of the vacuum vessel 10 with a bolt 11. It is desirable that a heat dissipating surface of the vacuum vessel 10 be made of a metal with a high thermal conductivity such as copper.
  • the second heat dissipating part hot heat dissipating surface of the Peltier element 6
  • thermally conductive plate 7, the copper net 8 (the thermally conductive member), thermally conductive plate 9, and the heat dissipating surface of the vacuum vessel 10 are collectively defined as a heat dissipating unit.
  • This heat dissipating unit may lack one or some or all of following components: the thermally conductive plate 7, the copper net 8 (the thermally conductive member), the thermally conductive plate 9, and the heat dissipating surface of the vacuum vessel 10 except the second heat dissipating part (the hot heat dissipating surface of the Peltier element 6). In other words, the heat dissipating unit may only consist of the second heat dissipating part.
  • the hot heat dissipating surface of the Peltier element 6, the thermal conductors 5 and 7 are fastened through an indium sheet or the like with a bolt or connected by soldering (not shown).
  • the bulk superconductor 1 is fixed on an inside of a holder 12 of copper or stainless steel with an adhesive agent or the like.
  • the holder 12 is formed of a material functioning both as a reinforcing member and a thermally conductive member.
  • the holder 12 is coupled with a support 13 made of a material with a high thermal conductivity such as aluminum or copper using screws or the like.
  • the support 13 is fixed on a top of a supportive cylinder 14 of a glass fiber-filled epoxy resin with a low thermal conductivity by an adhesive agent or the like.
  • the supportive cylinder 14 is fixed on a flange 15 at its bottom by an adhesive agent and fastened to an inner wall of the vacuum vessel 10 with a bolt or the like (not shown).
  • a thermal conductor 16 formed of a flexible copper net or a ring made of a copper thin belt with a high thermal conductivity is arranged between the support 13 and the cooling part 2 of the Sterling refrigerator and they are connected with each other by soldering or another method. Soldering operation here can be done using a hole 17 in the supportive cylinder 14 and a soldering iron.
  • Electric power is supplied from a power supply unit 18 to the compressing part 3 of the refrigerator and Peltier element 6 through wires 19a and 19b.
  • An upper part 20 of the vacuum vessel 10 is made of, for example, a glass fiber-filled epoxy resin.
  • a flange 21 is joined to a lower part 110 of the vacuum vessel 10 by welding or blazing, and a flange 22 is joined to an upper part 20 of the vacuum vessel 10 with an adhesive agent.
  • These flanges 21 and 22 are coupled through an O ring (not shown) with a bolt 23 and a nut 24. This ensures an air tightness of the vacuum vessel 10.
  • the compressing part 3 of the refrigerator is fixed on a retaining plate 25 joined to an inner wall of the vacuum vessel 10 through a vibration isolating cushion 33 with a bolt (not shown).
  • a space 26 inside the vacuum vessel 10 is evacuated by a vacuum pump 30 through a nozzle 27, a valve 28 and a tube 29.
  • the vibration isolating cushion 33 is not limited to a rubber but may be any flexible member for suppressing transmission of vibrations. Such a member is defined as a vibration isolating member.
  • Activated carbon particles 32 for example, are contained inside the vacuum vessel 10 for the purpose of absorbing a residual gas (air, etc) in the space 26 and keeping the required degree of vacuum.
  • a distance between a upper end of the cooling part 2 of the refrigerator and a bottom of the support 13 changes from before an operation of the refrigerator to during the operation because of thermal deformation.
  • the flexible thermal conductor 16 reduces a large thermal stress on the cooling part 2 and the support 13.
  • the compressing part 3 of the refrigerator is joined to the retaining plate 25 joined to an inner wall of the vacuum vessel 10 with a bolt (not shown) through the rubber cushion 33. Since the compressing part 3 of the Sterling refrigerator considerably vibrates during operation and the vibration is directly transmitted to the vacuum vessel 10 and the vacuum vessel 10 itself vibrates, resonates and generates a noise, the rubber cushion 33 is used to reduce the vibration. A fin 31 is disposed on the vacuum vessel 10 to improve a heat dissipating performance.
  • a compression heat 7 W generated in the compressing part 3 of the refrigerator must be dissipated to the outside of the refrigerator. If the Peltier element 6 generates a temperature difference of 50 K at a cooling power of 7 W, the thermally conductive plate 5 cooled by the Peltier element 6 is cooled to 273 K. The heat dissipated by the Peltier element 6 here is estimated to be 20 W.
  • a temperature of the thermally conductive plate 7 being in contact with the hot heat dissipating surface of the Peltier element 6 becomes 323 K, and the heat is dissipated through the copper net 8 to heat dissipating surface of the vacuum vessel 10 whose temperature is 10 K lower, or 313 K (room temperature) .
  • the temperature of pre-cooling stage 4 of the refrigerator disposed inside the vacuum vessel 10 is 273 K and the bulk superconductor 1 is cooled to approximately 45 K. If a diameter of the cylindrical bulk superconductor 1 is 45 mm, a magnetized field intensity is higher than 6 Tesla, or 6.5 Tesla, at a bulk superconductor cooling temperature of 48 K.
  • the compressing part 3 in order to remove the compression heat (7 W) generated in the compressing part 3 without using the Peltier element 6 at a room temperature of 313K, the compressing part 3 is exposed outside the vacuum vessel 10 to dissipate the heat. In this case, however, a heat dissipating surface area is small and a temperature of the compressing part 3 is approximately 318 K. Since this temperature is the ambient temperature for the refrigerator, the cooling temperature of the bulk superconductor 1 is 55 K and the magnetized field intensity is 4 Tesla.
  • the compressing part 3 of the refrigerator is pre-cooled by the Peltier element 6 to make its temperature lower than the room temperature and the bulk superconductor 1 being cooled by the refrigerator is cooled to 50 K or less. Therefore, the magnetized field intensity of the bulk superconductor 1 is increased.
  • the Peltier element 6 for cooling the compressing part 3 of the refrigerator is disposed inside the vacuum vessel 10, there is no possibility that a condensation of moisture in the air occurs on the cooling surface of the Peltier element 6 and thus electric short-circuiting due to the dew condensation and failures due to the condensed moisture in transportation can be prevented.
  • the Peltier element 6 is disposed inside the vacuum vessel 10, the cryogenic part of the Peltier element 6 is thermally insulated from the room temperature area. Therefore, the cooling efficiency of the Peltier element 6 is improved and the compressing part 3 of the refrigerator is cooled to a lower temperature and the bulk superconductor 1 can be cooled to 50 K or less by the refrigerator.
  • the Peltier element 6 is disposed inside the vacuum vessel 10, there is no air layer around the hot part of the Peltier element 6. This prevents a transfer of the heat from the hot part of the Peltier element 6 to the compressing part 3 (located near to the hot part) through an air layer. For this reason, the compressing part 3 of the refrigerator can be cooled to a lower temperature and the bulk superconductor 1 can be cooled to 50 K or less by the refrigerator. Since the magnetization performance is enhanced, it is possible to provide a superconducting magnet generating a higher-intensity magnetic field.
  • FIG. 2 shows another embodiment of the present invention.
  • the refrigerator is a split-type Sterling refrigerator wherein its cooling part 34 and compressing part 35 are separate from each other and connected by a tube 36.
  • the cooling part 34 of the refrigerator and the compressing part 35 of the refrigerator are fixed through a supportive plate 37 and through a rubber cushion 33 respectively on a retaining plate 38 fixed on the inner wall of the vacuum vessel 10 with bolts or the like (not shown).
  • the cooling part 34 and the hot compressing part 35 are separated from each other through the tube 36 with a small sectional area so that a heat leak from the compressing part 35 into the cooling part 34 by thermal conduction can be reduced.
  • the cooling part 34 can be cooled to a lower temperature and the magnetization performance can be enhanced by decreasing the temperature of the bulk superconductor 1 to realize a superconducting magnet with a higher magnetic field intensity.
  • a transmission of vibrations of the compressing part 35 to the bulk superconductor 1 as the object to be cooled is reduced.
  • FIG. 3 shows another embodiment of the present invention.
  • the difference from FIG. 1 is that a fan 39 is arranged on the bottom of the vacuum vessel 10.
  • An electric power is supplied to the fan 39 from the power supply 18 by wire 19C and the fan 39 send air to the fin 31. This improves the heat dissipating performance of the fin 31.
  • the temperature of the thermally conductive plate 7 becomes further lower and thus the temperature of the thermally conductive plate 5 also becomes lower. Consequently the temperature of the cooling part 34 of the refrigerator becomes further lower and the temperature of the bulk superconductor 1 becomes lower so that the magnetization performance is enhanced and a superconducting magnet generating a higher-intensity magnetic field is realized.
  • the refrigerator for cooling the object to be cooled is a Sterling refrigerator.
  • the refrigerator is another type of refrigerator such as a Gifford-McMahon refrigerator, a pulse tube refrigerator or a thermoacoustic refrigerator, a similar advantageous effect can be achieved.
  • the invention can be applied even when the object to be cooled is a cell sample or a protein sample. If that is the case, it is desirable that one end of the cryogenic container be open to the air to allow a user to take in and out the sample to be kept cold. In this case as well, since the pre-cooling unit decreases the helium gas inlet temperature to a level lower than the room temperature and thereby further decreases the temperature of the cryogenic container, the same advantageous effect that no dew condensation occurs on the cooling surface of the pre-cooling unit is achieved.
  • the entire Peltier element 6 as the pre-cooling unit is disposed inside the vacuum vessel 10.
  • the cooling surface of the Peltier element 6 as the second heat absorbing part is disposed inside the vacuum vessel 10 and the hot heat dissipating surface of the Peltier element 6 as the second heat dissipating part is exposed outside the vacuum vessel 10.
  • the temperature of the pre-cooling stage 4 as the first heat dissipating part can be below the dew point in the room and the dew condensation can be reduced.
  • the efficiency of the refrigerator is improved by cooling the heat dissipating surface of its first heat dissipating part to a level lower than the room temperature.
  • the helium gas temperature at the inlet of the refrigerator is kept lower than the room temperature so that the object to be cooled by the refrigerator can be cooled to a lower temperature.
  • the insulating vacuum vessel contains no oxygen, it is excellent in fire protection and assures safety in a place where a high degree of fire protection is required.

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