EP3844445A1 - Device for cooling a superconducting element - Google Patents
Device for cooling a superconducting elementInfo
- Publication number
- EP3844445A1 EP3844445A1 EP19734714.9A EP19734714A EP3844445A1 EP 3844445 A1 EP3844445 A1 EP 3844445A1 EP 19734714 A EP19734714 A EP 19734714A EP 3844445 A1 EP3844445 A1 EP 3844445A1
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- Prior art keywords
- cryostat
- cooling medium
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- superconducting element
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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
- F25D—REFRIGERATORS; COLD ROOMS; ICE-BOXES; COOLING OR FREEZING APPARATUS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- F25D3/00—Devices using other cold materials; Devices using cold-storage bodies
- F25D3/10—Devices using other cold materials; Devices using cold-storage bodies using liquefied gases, e.g. liquid air
- F25D3/102—Stationary cabinets
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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
- F25B19/00—Machines, plants or systems, using evaporation of a refrigerant but without recovery of the vapour
- F25B19/005—Machines, plants or systems, using evaporation of a refrigerant but without recovery of the vapour the refrigerant being a liquefied gas
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- H—ELECTRICITY
- H01—ELECTRIC ELEMENTS
- H01F—MAGNETS; INDUCTANCES; TRANSFORMERS; SELECTION OF MATERIALS FOR THEIR MAGNETIC PROPERTIES
- H01F6/00—Superconducting magnets; Superconducting coils
- H01F6/04—Cooling
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- the invention relates to a device for cooling a superconducting element, with a formed as a closed pressure vessel and via a compensating line with a reservoir for a cryogenic cooling medium flow-connected cryostat, which is thermally connected to the superconducting element.
- an “superconducting element” is understood here to mean an object built up from superconducting materials or having a superconducting component. For example, it is a superconducting cable, superconducting current limiters or a superconducting apparatus, such as superconducting magnetic coils or detectors based on superconducting components.
- Superconducting elements must be cooled to an operating temperature that is below half the superconducting transition temperature (transition temperature) of the superconductor (s) used.
- Liquefied gases are generally used for cooling.
- the choice of gas depends on the operating temperature of the superconducting element to be cooled; In systems that work on the basis of high-temperature superconductors, cryogenic liquefied nitrogen can be used; classic superconductors are usually cooled with liquid helium.
- Other liquefied gases such as liquid air, liquefied oxygen, liquefied hydrogen or liquefied argon, can also be used as heat transfer media.
- the liquefied gases are "supercooled", that is, they are brought to a temperature below the boiling temperature at the prevailing pressure. brings.
- the absorption of heat initially only causes a temperature increase without a change in the state of the gas.
- a subcooler for this purpose, for example, a refrigeration machine is used or a heat exchanger in which there is a cooling medium on the heat-dissipating side which evaporates at a temperature which is below the boiling point of the gas to be supercooled on the heat-supplying side.
- the known cooling systems have disadvantages. Since the cooling medium is circulated, it must either pass through the superconducting element to be cooled both on the way there and back, or it is returned via a line leading to the superconducting element. In the first case, the provision of two flow paths in the supercale element to be cooled complicates its structure, and the pressure loss which occurs over twice the length of the cooling path must be compensated for with correspondingly complex pump and pressure line systems. In the second case, the construction of a complex, heat-insulated return line is required. The pump, which is always necessary in the circuit, introduces additional heat into the cooling medium, which must be removed.
- superconducting elements can also be cooled by direct or indirect thermal contact with a cooling bath consisting of a cooling medium.
- the cooling bath is located in a thermally well insulated container, a so-called cryostat, which can also be designed to be pressure-resistant in order to reduce influences of the ambient pressure on the temperature of the bath.
- Arrangements with cryostats have the disadvantage that a sudden heat input into the system, for example during so-called “quenching", i.e. a transition to the normal conducting state due to a local exceeding of the transition temperature, can lead to a considerable part of the cooling medium in the Evaporated cryostat.
- quenching i.e. a transition to the normal conducting state due to a local exceeding of the transition temperature
- the associated sharp rise in pressure in the cryostat can endanger the superconducting element or even the entire apparatus and / or force an emergency shutdown of the system.
- the object of the present invention is accordingly to provide a device for cooling superconducting elements using a cryostat, which works reliably and with high operational reliability.
- a device of the type and purpose mentioned at the outset is thus characterized according to the invention in that the cryostat is thermally connected to a heat exchanger surface with a heat exchanger which is flow-connected to the reservoir via a supply line equipped with a relief valve and a gas discharge line for discharging evaporated cooling medium having.
- the heat exchanger connected to the cryostat via the heat exchanger surface acts in the device according to the invention as a subcooler.
- the heat exchanger surface transfers heat from the cooling medium in the interior of the cryostat by conduction to the heat exchanger located in the heat exchanger. due to the relaxation on the expansion valve, cooler coolant is transferred. In contrast to the above-mentioned circulation systems, there is no transport of coolant from the cryostat to the heat exchanger for heat transfer or vice versa.
- the heat exchanger is, for example, a vessel in which a bath of the same cooling medium as the cooling medium is maintained in the storage container when the device is used, but at a lower pressure; but it can also be a tube heat exchanger or a
- Act pipe coil through which or through which cooling medium from the pre-storage tank is passed at a lower pressure than the pressure in the storage tank.
- a pressure relief valve is used to reduce the pressure, which is arranged upstream of the heat exchanger in the supply line.
- the cooling medium is preferably in the heat exchanger at its equilibrium temperature, that is to say the temperature which corresponds to the boiling temperature at the respective pressure in the heat exchanger.
- the heat exchanger surface is a contact surface via which heat is transported by heat conduction.
- the heat exchanger surface is measured in such a way that the vast majority of the heat is transferred from the cooling medium in the cryostat to the cooling medium in the heat exchanger.
- the heat exchanger surface is a common wall section, directly connected wall sections of the cryostat and heat exchanger or a thermally well-conducting element arranged between the walls of the cryostat and heat exchanger, for example a plate or a cable made of a good heat conductor Material like copper.
- the heat exchanger is arranged outside the otherwise thermally well insulated and pressure-resistant cryostat and is only thermally connected to it via a heat exchanger surface.
- An alternative embodiment of the invention provides that the heat exchanger is arranged inside the cryostat and the cooling medium present there is subcooled.
- the heat exchanger area can be of the total Outer walls of the heat exchanger, for example the outer walls of the vessel described above, the tubes or the pipe coil, insofar as they lie within the cryostat.
- the compensation line / s between the cryostat and the storage container which connects the cooling bath in the interior of the cryostat from liquid cooling medium with a liquid phase and / or a gas phase in the storage container, is always open when the device is used.
- the cryostat With the exception of this compensating line / s, the cryostat, on the other hand, is pressure-tightly closed, also with respect to the heat exchanger; if the heat exchanger and / or the superconducting element is arranged in the interior of the cryostat, all connecting lines for the heat exchanger and any current or other supply lines for the superconducting element are guided liquid-tight through the walls of the cryostat.
- the cryogenic cooling medium in the cryostat is in the supercooled state; a heat input initially only leads to a temperature change without changing the state of the aggregate. At least with smaller amounts of heat, there is no evaporation of the cooling medium in the cryostat.
- the cryostat is designed as a pressure vessel and is sealed off from the ambient atmosphere.
- the pressure in its interior corresponds essentially to the pressure in the storage tank, in which the cooling medium is stored at a pressure which is higher than the ambient atmosphere, for example 2-5 bar.
- the comparatively high pressure also increases the boiling point and the cooling medium can absorb more heat without boiling.
- means for setting a pressure value for example an evaporator, are assigned to the storage tank, by means of which a maximum pressure in the storage container, and thus in the cryo state, can be selected.
- heat input is removed during operation of the device while being removed from the heat exchanger thermally connected to the cryostat.
- the supply line leading to the heat exchanger can optionally be designed for this purpose in such a way that means are assigned to the supply line, by means of which the volume flow of cooling medium that is fed to the heat exchanger can be regulated depending on the heat input into the heat exchanger is.
- at least one bypass line between the storage tank and heat exchanger can be provided, which is switched on or off as a function of a measured heat input by means of a controllable valve and thus allows the supply of additional cooling medium to the heat exchanger if necessary.
- the compensating line between the cryostat and the storage container is always open during operation of the device, so that in the event of a pressure rise, depending on the selection of the compensating line (s), evaporated cooling medium into the gas phase and / or liquid cooling medium into the liquid phase of the cooling medium stored in the storage container can flow off; the storage container thus acts as an expansion vessel, which protects the cryostat from an excessive rise in pressure.
- the gas discharge of the heat exchanger is pressure-connected to the surrounding atmosphere, ie a pressure of approximately 1 bar prevails in the heat exchanger.
- a vacuum pump to be arranged in the gas discharge line, by means of which the pressure in the heat exchanger can be brought to values below 1 bar, for example 100-200 mbar.
- the boiling point of liquid nitrogen at a pressure of 150 mbar is only 64K, which means that the liquid nitrogen present in the cryostat as the cooling medium and in thermal contact with the superconducting element can be cooled to 67K or below.
- the vacuum pump can also be designed in such a way that a pressure in the heat exchanger can be permanently set and / or regulated depending on a measured parameter, for example the temperature of the cooling medium in the cryo.
- a pressure in the heat exchanger can be permanently set and / or regulated depending on a measured parameter, for example the temperature of the cooling medium in the cryo.
- the compensation line is either a liquid compensation line that creates a flow connection between the interior of the cryostat and a liquid phase in the storage container, or a gas compensation line that creates a flow connection between the interior of the cryostat and the gas phase in the storage container.
- both types of equalization lines can also be present at the same time, which preferably can be switched on or off in each case.
- the device according to the invention is suitable for cooling both superconducting devices that work on the basis of classic superconductors and those that work on the basis of flea temperature superconductors.
- the device according to the invention is suitable for cooling sup raleitician coils, magnets, cables or detectors.
- a liquefied gas is preferably used as the cooling medium, for example liquefied nitrogen, liquefied oxygen, liquefied hydrogen, LNG or a liquefied noble gas, in particular liquid argon or liquid flelium.
- Liquid nitrogen in particular, is suitable for cooling equipment that works on the basis of flea temperature superconductors.
- a particularly advantageous embodiment of the invention provides that the supra-conducting element is connected to normally conducting power supplies and at least one of these power supplies runs at least in sections within the compensation line (liquid compensation line) carrying the cooling medium or within the supply line to the heat exchanger.
- the power supply lines via which a significant proportion of the heat is introduced into the cryostat, are cooled by the cooling medium in the respective line.
- the at least one power supply can be in indirect thermal contact with the equalization line and / or the supply line, and can be wound, for example, between a tube carrying the cooling medium and a thermal insulation of the tube. It proves to be particularly expedient to assign the at least one power supply at least in sections within the feed line upstream to the relief valve, that is to say between the relief valve and the storage container, where it is / are cooled by the liquid nitrogen gas therein.
- a likewise advantageous embodiment of the invention provides that the Ent voltage valve is arranged inside the cryostat.
- the power supply line upstream of the expansion valve but still within the cryostat.
- the superconducting element to be cooled is located inside the cryostat and is flushed with the cooling medium when the device is in use, i.e. is in direct thermal contact with the cooling medium, or the superconducting element is arranged outside the cryostat and is in use with the device with the liquid Cooling medium in the cryostat via a heat exchanger surface in indirect thermal contact.
- Fig. 1 an inventive device in a first embodiment
- Fig. 2 an inventive device in a second embodiment.
- the device 1 shown in Fig. 1 for cooling a superconducting element 2 comprises a cryostat 3 in the form of a thermally well insulated and pressure-resistant container in which the superconducting element 2 is accommodated and in which it is at a temperature below the sup conducting temperature of the material of its superconducting components is maintained.
- the cryostat 3 the superconducting element 2 is in heat contact with a cooling medium which is stored in a storage container 4.
- the superconducting element 2 is, for example, an apparatus with superconducting components, for example a cable, a magnetic coil, a current limiter or a detector.
- the superconducting element 2 is inherently known and not of further interest here to normal conducting Stromzu leads 5, 6, for example cables or massive leads made of a highly conductive material, such as copper, connected, which are liquid-tight through the walls of the cryostat 3.
- the storage container 4 is a container, for example a standing tank equipped with thermally well-insulated walls, for storing a cryogenic cooling medium, for example liquefied nitrogen, liquefied hydrogen or a liquefied noble gas, such as helium or argon.
- a cryogenic cooling medium for example liquefied nitrogen, liquefied hydrogen or a liquefied noble gas, such as helium or argon.
- the storage container 4 is connected to the interior 7 of the cryostat 3 via a liquid compensation line 8 which is connected to a liquid connection 9 of the storage container 4. Via this, the interior 7 of the cryostat 3 is in flow connection with a liquid phase 10 of the cooling medium present in the storage container 4.
- the interior 7 of the cryostat 3 can be connected via a gas compensation line 11 to a gas connection 12 of the storage container 4 and thus be connected to the gas phase 13 of the cooling medium present in the storage container 4.
- a cooling medium line 15 branches off from the liquid equalization line 8 downstream of the liquid connection 9.
- Thedemediumslei device 15 is liquid-tight through a wall of the cryostat 3 and opens into a heat exchanger 16.
- heat exchanger 16 is in the embodiment shown in Fig. 1 is a container which is arranged within half of the cryostat 3, but is not in flow connection with the interior 7.
- the heat exchanger 16 is equipped with thermally highly conductive walls which act as a heat exchanger surface 14 for thermal contact with the interior 7.
- other forms of heat exchangers can also be used, for example one or more coils or one or more tubes / n guided through the interior of the cryostat 3. However, it is always essential that between see the tubes or the cooling coil a thermal connection, but there is no flow connection to the interior 7 of the cryostat 3.
- a relaxation valve (pressure reducing valve) 17 is arranged in the cooling medium line 15.
- a gas exhaust line 18 opens out, which releases gaseous cooling medium from the heat exchanger 16, for example into the ambient atmosphere, or into a return line system, not shown here, in which a lower pressure than in the storage container 4 prevails.
- the interior 7 of the cryostat 3 is first filled with liquid cooling medium from the storage tank 4.
- the liquid ge cooling medium thus forms a cooling bath which flows around the superconducting element 2 and the heat exchanger 16.
- the valve of the liquid connection 9 is used to produce pressure equalization between the cryostat 2 and the storage container 4
- the valve of the gas connection 12 is always open during use of the device 1.
- the interior 7 of the cryostat 3 there is therefore essentially the same pressure as in the storage container 4. Due to the thermal contact with the liquid cooling medium present in the cryostat 3, the superconducting element 2 is cooled to its operating temperature.
- Liquid cooling medium is conducted from the storage tank 4 to the heat exchanger 16 via the cooling medium line 15, wherein the pressure on the expansion valve 17 is reduced.
- the liquefied cooling medium is thus present at a reduced pressure compared to the pressure in the storage tank 4, and thus also at a reduced temperature compared to the temperature of the cooling medium in the storage tank 4.
- the superconducting element 2 is therefore surrounded by liquid, bubble-free cooling medium.
- the heat input leads to the liquid cooling medium partially evaporating and via the Gas extraction line 18 is discharged.
- the evaporated cooling medium is replaced by fresh cooling medium from the reservoir 4.
- a vacuum pump 19 can be arranged in the gas exhaust line, by means of which the pressure in the gas exhaust line 18, and thus in the heat exchanger 14, to a value below 1 bar, for example 100-200 mbar can be brought.
- the temperature of the cooling medium present in the interior 7 initially increases. If the boiling temperature is exceeded, part of the cooling medium evaporates in the cryostat 3, with the result of an increase in pressure in the cryostat 3. Via the always open / n liquid compensation line 8 and / or gas compensation line 1 1, this leads to a transport of cooling medium in the reservoir 4, which acts as a surge tank. After the end of the heat input, for example after the superconducting state has been restored, the cooling medium in the interior 7 of the cryostat 3 is rapidly cooled back to its previous operating temperature by the thermal contact on the heat exchanger 14.
- the device 20 shown in FIG. 2 differs from the device 1 only in that the superconducting element 2 and the heat exchanger 16 are arranged differently from the cryostat 3.
- components having the same effect are therefore given the same reference Character provided as in the embodiment of FIG. 1st
- the superconducting element 2 and the heat exchanger 16 are not taken up within the cryostat 3, but are located outside the cryostat 3.
- the heat exchanger 16 is above a heat exchanger surface 21, for example a common, highly heat-conducting wall section , with the interior 7 of the cryostat 3 in heat connection.
- the superconducting element 2 is on a bathtau shear surface 22 with the interior 7 of the cryostat 3 in thermal connection.
- both the heat exchanger 16 and the superconducting element are equipped with thermally well-insulating walls.
- the cooling of the superconducting element 2 and the subcooling of the cooling medium present in the interior space 7 of the cryostat 3 is thus carried out by heat conduction via the heat exchanger surfaces 21, 22.
- At least one of the power supply lines 5, 6 can run within the liquid equalization line 8 or the cooling medium line 15 or be in indirect thermal contact with them in order to cool the power supply line with the cooling medium present there.
- this is not shown in the drawings for reasons of clarity.
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