EP2936006B1 - Dispositif de réfrigération et/ou de liquéfaction et procédé correspondant - Google Patents

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EP2936006B1
EP2936006B1 EP13803115.8A EP13803115A EP2936006B1 EP 2936006 B1 EP2936006 B1 EP 2936006B1 EP 13803115 A EP13803115 A EP 13803115A EP 2936006 B1 EP2936006 B1 EP 2936006B1
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Fabien Durand
Vincent Heloin
Pierre BARJHOUX
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  • the present invention relates to a refrigeration and / or liquefaction device and a corresponding method.
  • the invention particularly relates to helium refrigerators / liquefiers generating very low temperatures (for example 4.5K in the case of helium) in order to continuously cool users such as superconducting cables or devices of a device of plasma generation ("TOKAMAK").
  • refrigeration / liquefaction device is meant in particular refrigeration devices and / or liquefaction devices at very low temperatures (cryogenic temperatures) cooling and liquefying where appropriate a low molecular weight gas such as helium.
  • WO2011110768 A1 and WO2011117499 A1 describe methods for refrigeration in pulsed charge of an organ of a "Tokamak" in which the increase of the refrigeration power produced by the refrigeration device is automatically triggered in response to a signal produced during a start-up step of a plasma in the Tokamak.
  • the refrigeration / liquefaction device is generally unsuitable for such cooling.
  • the device comprises an auxiliary pre-cooling system which provides frigories during this cold setting.
  • the pre-cooling system generally comprises a liquid nitrogen capacity (at constant temperature, eg 80K) which supplies working gas frigories via at least one heat exchanger.
  • fluid mixtures are required between 80K helium and warmer helium (at room temperature or at the return temperature of the user to be cooled).
  • the Heat exchangers suitable for this normal operation include plate-type aluminum exchangers and brazed fins. This type of exchanger can not typically accept temperature differences between countercurrent fluids of more than 50 K.
  • An object of the present invention is to overcome all or part of the disadvantages of the prior art noted above.
  • the device comprises the pre-assembly system. cooler comprising a third heat exchanger, the first heat exchanger being of the aluminum plate and fin type, the second heat exchanger being of the tube type or of the welded plate type, this second heat exchanger being immersed in an auxiliary cooling fluid bath and in that the second and third heat exchangers are connected both in series and in parallel to the working circuit downstream of the first heat exchanger, i.e. that the working gas cooled in the first heat exchanger can be selectively admitted into the second and / or the third heat exchanger, and in that the second heat exchanger is immersed in a first liquefied auxiliary gas capacity.
  • the invention also relates to a cooling method according to claim 10 of a user using a refrigerating and / or liquefying device for a working gas according to any one of claims 1-9, wherein, user is cooled via the heat exchange system.
  • the method comprises a step of pre-cooling the user having an initial temperature of between 250 K and 400 K in which the working gas leaving the compression station is cooled by heat exchange in the first heat exchanger. then is subdivided into two streams of which a first stream is cooled in the second heat exchanger and then in the third heat exchanger and a second stream is cooled directly in the third heat exchanger, the auxiliary fluid vaporized in the first capacity being discharged without give away frigories to the first heat exchanger.
  • the method comprises a step of pre-cooling the user having an initial temperature of between 250 K and 150 K in which the working gas leaving the compression station is cooled by heat exchange in the first heat exchanger. heat then in the second heat exchanger and is split into two streams, a first flow is cooled in the third heat exchanger and a second flow avoids the third heat exchanger, the third heat exchanger being supplied with auxiliary fluid to transfer frigories of the auxiliary fluid to the working gas in the third exchanger, the auxiliary fluid vaporized in the first capacity and / or in contact with the third exchanger being discharged without yielding frigories to the first heat exchanger.
  • the method comprises a step of pre-cooling the user having an initial temperature of between 150K and 95K in which the working gas leaving the compression station is cooled by heat exchange in the first heat exchanger. heat then in the second heat exchanger and then in the third heat exchanger, at least a portion of the auxiliary fluid vaporized in the first capacity and / or in contact with the third heat exchanger being removed by yielding frigories to the first heat exchanger.
  • the method comprises a step of pre-cooling the user having an initial temperature of between 95 K and 80 K in which the working gas leaving the compression station is cooled by heat exchange in the first heat exchanger.
  • the device cools the user according to a so-called nominal operation in which the working gas leaving the compression station is cooled by heat exchange in the first heat exchanger then only in the third heat exchanger, the third exchanger being supplied with auxiliary fluid to transfer frigories of the auxiliary fluid to the working gas in the third exchanger and in that the auxiliary fluid vaporized in contact with the third exchanger is evacuated by yielding frigories at the first heat exchanger.
  • the installation 100 may comprise, conventionally, a refrigeration / liquefaction device comprising a working circuit submitting helium to a work cycle to produce cold.
  • the working circuit of the refrigeration device 2 comprises a compression station 1 provided with at least one compressor 5 and preferably several compressors which provide a compression of the helium.
  • the helium enters a box 2 of cold for the cooling of the helium.
  • the cold box 2 comprises a plurality of heat exchangers which heat exchange with helium to cool the latter.
  • the cold box 2 comprises one or more turbines 7 to relax the compressed helium.
  • the cold box 2 operates according to a Brayton type thermodynamic cycle or any other appropriate cycle.
  • At least a portion of the helium is liquefied at the outlet of the cold box 2 and enters a heat exchange system 14 provided to ensure a selective heat exchange between the liquid helium and a user 10 to cool.
  • the user 10 comprises for example a magnetic field generator obtained using a superconducting magnet and / or one or more cryo-condensation pumping units or any other member requiring cooling at a very low temperature.
  • the device further comprises, in a manner known per se, an additional pre-cooling system of the working gas at the outlet of the compression station 2.
  • the pre-cooling system comprises a capacity 3 of auxiliary cryogenic fluid such as liquid nitrogen.
  • the capacitor 3 is connected to the working circuit via at least one heat exchanger for selectively transferring frigories of the auxiliary fluid to the working gas.
  • the capacitor 3 may be supplied with auxiliary fluid via a supply line 113 connected to an auxiliary fluid source (not shown) and provided with a valve 23 (cf. figure 3 ).
  • the compression station 1 comprises two compressors 11, 12 in series defining for example three pressure levels for helium.
  • the compression station 2 may also include helium purification organs 8.
  • the helium is admitted to a cold box 2 in which this helium is cooled by heat exchange with several exchangers 5 and is in which it is expanded in turbines 7.
  • the liquefied helium in the cold box 2 can be stored in a reserve 14 provided with an exchanger 144 for heat exchange with the user 10 to cool (for example via a circuit provided with a pump).
  • This heat exchange system 14 between the helium and the user 10 may comprise any other appropriate structure.
  • the low-pressure helium that has passed through the heat exchange system 14 is sent back to the compression station 1 via a return line 9 in order to restart a work cycle.
  • the relatively cold helium transfers heat to the heat exchangers and in this way cools the relatively hot helium which circulates in the opposite direction in the cold box 2 before reaching the user 10.
  • the working circuit may comprise a return line 19 returning to the station 1 for compressing the helium of the cold box 2 that has not passed through the heat exchange system 14.
  • the device comprises a pre-cooling system comprising a capacity 3 of auxiliary cryogenic fluid such as liquid nitrogen at a temperature of 80K for example.
  • auxiliary cryogenic fluid such as liquid nitrogen at a temperature of 80K for example.
  • the cold box 2 comprises a first helium cooling stage which receives the helium as soon as it leaves the compression station 1.
  • This first cooling stage comprises a first heat exchanger, a second heat exchanger and a third heat exchanger.
  • the first heat exchanger is preferably of the plate type aluminum and brazed fins.
  • Such an exchanger is, for example, in accordance with the recommendations of ALPEMA (Association of Manufacturers of Brazed Aluminum Plate and Wave Exchangers).
  • the first heat exchanger is for example of the heat exchange type between different streams of helium at different respective temperatures.
  • the first heat exchanger may comprise a first feedthrough 6 of hot and high pressure working gas coming directly from the compression station 1, a second countercurrent passage of the first passage and supplied by the gas return pipe 9. working said cold and low pressure and a third passage against the current of the first passage and fed medium pressure working gas via a return line 19.
  • the first exchanger 5 further comprises a passage section for auxiliary fluid.
  • the second 15 and third 25 heat exchangers are connected both in series and in parallel on the working circuit downstream of the first exchanger heat, that is, the working gas cooled in the first heat exchanger can be selectively admitted to the second and / or third heat exchanger.
  • the second and third heat exchangers can be connected both in series and in parallel with the first heat exchanger via a network of lines 6, 16, 26, 250 and valves 116, 126, 326 forming a parallel connection and a series link between the two heat exchangers 15, 25 and a bypass line 250 (bypass) of the second heat exchanger.
  • the second heat exchanger is preferably of the tube type (for example stainless steel, copper or other alloy compatible with cryogenic temperatures) immersed in a bath of auxiliary cooling fluid such as liquid nitrogen at 80K. More specifically, the second heat exchanger 15 is immersed in a first liquid nitrogen capacity 3. As previously described, the first capacitor 3 can be supplied with auxiliary fluid via a supply duct 113 connected to an auxiliary fluid source (not shown) and provided with a valve 23.
  • auxiliary fluid such as liquid nitrogen at 80K.
  • this second submerged heat exchanger may be a heat exchanger made of stainless steel or other welded plate metal or alloy, that is to say an exchanger whose technology is known in English under the name "Plate and Shell ".
  • These types of heat exchangers constituting the second heat exchanger are designed to withstand, without disadvantage, relatively large temperature differences between the different use configurations (immersed / non-submerged), for example temperature differences between 60 K and 250K.
  • the device comprises a first vaporized auxiliary fluid discharge conduit 30 connecting an upper end of the first capacitor to a remote auxiliary fluid recovery system via a passage in the first heat exchanger.
  • This first vaporized auxiliary fluid discharge conduit 30 also includes a selective bypass branch 130 of the first heat exchanger via a valve system 230, 430.
  • the third heat exchanger is preferably a plate-and-fin type aluminum exchanger.
  • the third exchanger 25 is of the type with selective heat exchange between helium and nitrogen.
  • the device may comprise a feed pipe 13 provided with at least one valve (not shown) connecting (for example in a loop) the first capacitor 3 to the third heat exchanger, for selectively transferring frigories of the auxiliary fluid to the working gas in the third heat exchanger.
  • the figure 3 illustrates an alternative embodiment of the first cooling stage of the device.
  • the embodiment of the figure 3 differs from that of the figure 2 only in that the third heat exchanger 25 is this time immersed in a second capacity 33 of auxiliary fluid (instead of being supplied with auxiliary fluid from the first capacity 3 or from a source).
  • this second fluid capacity 33 may be a cryogenic tank selectively supplied with auxiliary fluid by a source of auxiliary fluid.
  • the third heat exchanger is immersed in said second capacitor 33 to allow, if appropriate, an exchange of frigories between the working gas and the auxiliary fluid of the second capacitor 33.
  • the second auxiliary capacity 33 also includes a second vaporized auxiliary fluid discharge conduit 330 connecting an upper end of the second capacity to a remote auxiliary fluid recovery system via a passage in the first heat exchanger.
  • the second discharge pipe 330 connects to the first auxiliary fluid discharge pipe 30, upstream of the first heat exchanger 5. That is to say that the auxiliary fluid vaporized in the second capacitor 33 can be distributed between a passage in the first exchanger 5 and / or line 130 bypass avoiding this first 5 heat exchanger.
  • the Figures 4 to 7 respectively illustrate four distinct configurations that can be used during a succession of an example of possible operation of the device.
  • a first phase of cooling a user 10 illustrated in the figure 4 the helium leaving the compression station 1 is cooled by heat exchange in the first heat exchanger and the cooled helium is divided into two streams (valves 116 and 126 open). A first of these two streams is cooled in the second heat exchanger and then passes into the third heat exchanger without heat exchange (valve 233 closed). The second stream does not pass into the second heat exchanger and is mixed with the first outflow of the second heat exchanger 15 before passing into the third heat exchanger.
  • the first capacity 3 is supplied with auxiliary fluid (nitrogen) and the vaporized nitrogen is evacuated via the evacuation pipe 30 and the bypass branch 130 without yielding frigories to the first heat exchanger 5 ( valve 230 open in branch branch 130 and valve 430 closed for passage through the first exchanger 5).
  • auxiliary fluid nitrogen
  • a second phase of cooling a user 10 illustrated in FIG. figure 5 the helium leaving the compression station 1 can be cooled by heat exchange in the first heat exchanger and then in the second heat exchanger (valve 116 open and valve 126 closed).
  • the helium is then split into two streams of which a first stream is cooled in the third heat exchanger and a second stream which passes through the bypass line 250 (opening of the valve 326 in the bypass line 250 ).
  • the first 3 and the second capacitor 33 are supplied with auxiliary fluid via respective supply lines 113, 133 (corresponding open valves 213 and 233).
  • Auxiliary fluids vaporized in the capacitors 3, 33 can be evacuated without passing through the first heat exchanger 5, that is to say via the branch 130 of bypass (valve 430 closed and valve 230 open).
  • a third cooling phase of a user 10 illustrated in FIG. figure 6 the working gas leaving the compression station 1 can be cooled in series by heat exchange in the first heat exchanger and then in the second heat exchanger and then in the third heat exchanger (valve 116 open, valve 126 closed).
  • the auxiliary fluid vaporized in the first 3 and second 33 capacities can be discharged partly via the first heat exchanger and partly via the branch 130 bypass (valve 230 and 430 open).
  • a fourth cooling phase of a user 10 illustrated in FIG. figure 7 the working gas exiting the compression station 1 can be cooled in series by heat exchange in the first heat exchanger and then in the third heat exchanger (without passing through the second heat exchanger: valve 116 closed and valve 126 open). Only the second capacitor 33 may be supplied with auxiliary fluid (valve 213 closed and valve 233 open). The auxiliary fluid vaporized in the second capacity 33 can be discharged partly via the first heat exchanger and partly via the branch 130 bypass (valve 230 and 430 open).
  • the device can ensure continuous cooling (keeping cold at the determined temperature) with the same device.
  • the device can also function according to the configuration of the figure 7 . That is, the working gas exiting the compression station 1 can be cooled in series by heat exchange in the first heat exchanger and then in the third heat exchanger (without passing through the second heat exchanger 15). of heat) and only the second capacitor 33 can be supplied with auxiliary fluid.
  • the auxiliary fluid vaporized in the second capacity can be discharged via the first heat exchanger (valve 230 closed and valve 430 open).
  • the architectures described above thus make it possible to cool a massive component of a relatively hot temperature (for example 400K at a relatively low temperature (for example 80K) with a reduced number of equipment.
  • first and third heat exchangers two plate and fin type aluminum exchangers
  • second exchanger 15 a tube type heat exchanger
  • Another advantage provided by the device is to limit the heat input to the working gas in normal operation by isolating the circuits and equipment used only for cooling. This equipment can be installed outside the cold box and it also reduces the size and cost of the enclosure of the cold box.

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