EP4010640A1 - Dispositif et installation de réfrigération - Google Patents
Dispositif et installation de réfrigérationInfo
- Publication number
- EP4010640A1 EP4010640A1 EP20742660.2A EP20742660A EP4010640A1 EP 4010640 A1 EP4010640 A1 EP 4010640A1 EP 20742660 A EP20742660 A EP 20742660A EP 4010640 A1 EP4010640 A1 EP 4010640A1
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- EP
- European Patent Office
- Prior art keywords
- cooling
- fluid
- cooling heat
- heat exchanger
- working fluid
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- the invention relates to a refrigeration device and installation.
- the invention relates more particularly to a device for refrigeration at low temperature, that is to say at a temperature between minus 100 degrees centigrade and minus 273 degrees centigrade and in particular between minus 100 degrees centigrade and minus 253 degrees centigrade, comprising a working circuit forming a loop and containing a working fluid, the working circuit forming a cycle comprising in series: a mechanism for compressing the working fluid, a mechanism for cooling the working fluid, a mechanism for expanding the working fluid and a mechanism for heating the working fluid, the device comprising a refrigeration heat exchanger intended to extract heat from at least one member by heat exchange with the working fluid circulating in the working circuit, the compression mechanism comprising two separate compressors, the working fluid cooling mechanism comprising two heat exchangers of r efroid ordinance arranged respectively at the outlet of the two compressors and ensuring heat exchange between the working fluid and a cooling fluid, each cooling heat exchanger comprising a cooling fluid inlet and a cooling fluid outlet.
- low-temperature refrigeration device a refrigeration system at a temperature between minus 100 degrees centigrade and minus 273 degrees centigrade, in particular between minus 100 degrees centigrade and minus 253 degrees centigrade.
- the invention relates in particular to cryogenic refrigerators and / or liquefiers, for example of the “Turbo Brayton” cycle type or “Turbo Brayton coolers” in which a gas work, also called cycle gas (helium, nitrogen, hydrogen or other pure gas or mixture), undergoes a thermodynamic cycle producing cold which can be transferred to an organ or a gas to be cooled.
- a gas work also called cycle gas (helium, nitrogen, hydrogen or other pure gas or mixture)
- cycle gas helium, nitrogen, hydrogen or other pure gas or mixture
- These devices are used in a wide variety of applications and in particular for cooling natural gas from a reservoir (for example in boats).
- the liquefied natural gas is for example sub-cooled to prevent its vaporization or the gaseous part is cooled with a view to its reliquefaction.
- a natural gas stream can be circulated through a heat exchanger cooled by the refrigerator / liquefier cycle gas.
- These devices can include several heat exchangers interposed at the outlet of the compression stages. These devices are integrated into a frame or frame whose volume is limited. The integration of these various exchangers and the associated piping are thus made difficult. Cooling the working gas can in some cases be problematic.
- An aim of the present invention is to overcome all or part of the drawbacks of the prior art noted above.
- the device according to the invention is essentially characterized in that the cooling fluid outlet of one of the two heat exchangers of cooling is connected to the coolant inlet of the other cooling heat exchanger so that coolant flow passing through one of the cooling heat exchangers has already circulated through the other heat exchanger cooling.
- embodiments of the invention may include one or more of the following characteristics: the two compressors are arranged in series in the working circuit.
- the refrigerant circuit firstly supplies the first cooling heat exchanger in series according to the direction of circulation of the working fluid, then the second cooling heat exchanger in series according to the direction of circulation with the working fluid being supplied with cooling fluid having passed through the first cooling heat exchanger, the refrigerant circuit first supplies the second cooling heat exchanger in series with cooling fluid according to the direction of circulation of the working fluid, the first cooling heat exchanger in series according to the direction of circulation of the working fluid being supplied with cooling fluid having passed through the second cooling heat exchanger,
- the two cooling heat exchangers each have an oblong shape extending in a respective longitudinal direction, each cooling heat exchanger comprising an inlet for working gas to be cooled and an outlet for cooled working gas arranged respectively at two longitudinal ends, the two cooling heat exchangers being arranged in reverse, that is to say say that the respective longitudinal directions of the two cooling heat exchangers are parallel or substantially parallel and the directions
- the invention also relates to a refrigeration and / or liquefaction installation for a flow of user fluid, in particular natural gas, comprising such a refrigeration device, the installation comprising at least one user fluid reservoir, a circulation pipe. of said flow of user fluid in the cooling exchanger.
- the compression mechanism comprises two or more compressors and at least one motor for driving the compressor or compressors in rotation and comprising a rotary drive shaft, the compressors being driven in rotation by the rotary shaft or shafts.
- the working fluid expansion mechanism comprising at least one rotary turbine rotatably fixed to a shaft of one of the drive motors of at least one compressor, the refrigeration power of the refrigeration device being variable and controlled by a controller regulating the speed of rotation of the drive motor (s).
- the invention may also relate to any alternative device or method comprising any combination of the characteristics above or below within the scope of the claims.
- FIG. 1 represents a schematic and partial view illustrating the structure and operation of an example of a device and installation capable of implementing the invention
- FIG. 2 is a schematic and partial view illustrating a detail of the structure and operation of the device and of the installation according to an alternative embodiment of the arrangement of two cooling heat exchangers,
- FIG. 3 represents a schematic and partial view illustrating the structure and operation of an example of device and installation capable of implementing the invention according to another example of embodiment
- FIG. 4 shows a schematic and partial view illustrating a detail of the structure and operation of the device and of the installation according to a possible variant embodiment of the agency of two cooling heat exchangers.
- the cooling and / or liquefaction installation of [Fig. 1] or [Fig. 4] comprises a refrigeration device 1 providing cold (cooling power) at the level of a refrigeration heat exchanger 8.
- the installation comprises a pipe 125 for circulating a flow of fluid to be cooled placed in heat exchange with this cooling exchanger 8.
- the fluid is liquid natural gas pumped into a tank 16 (for example via a pump), then is cooled (preferably outside the tank 16) and then returned to the tank 16 (for example in rain in the gas phase of the tank. tank 16).
- This makes it possible to cool or sub-cool the contents of the reservoir 16 and to limit the phenomena of vaporization.
- the liquid in the tank 16 is sub-cooled below its saturation temperature (drop in its temperature by several degrees K, in particular 5 to 20K and in particular 14K) before being reinjected into the tank 16.
- this refrigeration can be supplied to the vaporization gas of the reservoir with a view in particular to its reliquefaction. That is to say, the refrigeration device 1 produces cold power at the level of the refrigeration heat exchanger 8.
- the refrigeration device 1 comprises a working circuit 10 (preferably closed) forming a circulation loop.
- This working circuit 10 contains a working fluid (helium, nitrogen, neon, hydrogen or other other gas or suitable mixture (for example helium and argon or helium and nitrogen or helium and neon or helium and nitrogen and neon).
- the working circuit 10 forms a cycle comprising: a mechanism 2, 3 for compressing the working fluid, a mechanism 4, 5, 6 for cooling the working fluid, a mechanism 7 for expanding the working fluid and a mechanism 6 for heating of the working fluid.
- the device 1 comprises a refrigeration heat exchanger 8 located downstream of the expansion mechanism 7 and intended to extract heat from at least one member 25 by heat exchange with the cold working fluid circulating in the working circuit 10.
- the mechanisms for cooling and reheating the working fluid can conventionally comprise a common heat exchanger 6 in which the working fluid passes countercurrently in two separate transit portions of the working circuit 10 depending on whether it is cooled or reheated. .
- the cooling heat exchanger 8 is located for example between the expansion mechanism 7 and the common heat exchanger 6. As illustrated, the cooling heat exchanger 8 may be a separate heat exchanger from the common heat exchanger 6. However, as a variant, this refrigeration heat heat exchanger 8 could consist of a portion of the common heat exchanger 6 (that is to say that the two exchangers 6, 8 can be in one piece, that is to say that is to say can have distinct fluid circuits which share the same exchange structure).
- the working fluid which exits relatively hot from the compression mechanism 2, 3 is cooled in the common heat exchanger 6 before entering the expansion mechanism 7.
- the working fluid which exits relatively cold from the mechanism 7 of expansion and the cooling heat exchanger 8 is in turn heated in the common heat exchanger 6 before returning to the compression mechanism 2 3 in order to start a new cycle.
- the compression mechanism 2, 3 comprises at least two compressors and at least one motor 14, 15 for driving the compressors 2, 3.
- the refrigeration power of the device is variable and can be controlled by regulating the speed. rotation of the drive motor or motors 14, 15 (cycle speed).
- the cold power produced by the device 1 can be adapted from 0 to 100% of a nominal or maximum power by changing the speed of rotation of the motor or motors 14, 15 between a zero speed of rotation and a maximum or nominal speed. .
- Such an architecture makes it possible to maintain high efficiency over a wide operating range (for example 97% of nominal efficiency at 50% of nominal cold power).
- the refrigeration device 1 comprises two compressors 2, 3 in series. These two compressors 2, 3 can be driven respectively by two separate motors 14, 15.
- a turbine 7 can be coupled to the drive shaft of one of the two motors.
- a first engine 14 drives only a compressor 3 (motor-compressor) while the other motor 15 drives a compressor 2 and is coupled to a turbine 7 (motor-turbocharger).
- the device 1 comprises two motors 14, 15 at high speed (for example 10,000 revolutions per minute or several tens of thousands of revolutions per minute) for driving the respective compression stages 2, 3.
- the turbine 7 can be coupled to the motor 15 of one of the compression stages 2, 3, that is to say that the device can have a turbine 7 constituting the expansion mechanism which is coupled to the drive motor 15 of a compression stage (the first or the second).
- the power of the turbine or turbines 7 can be advantageously recovered and used to reduce the consumption of the engine or engines.
- the refrigeration power produced and therefore the electrical consumption of the liquefier (and vice versa) is increased.
- the compressors 2, 3 and turbine (s) 7 are preferably coupled directly to an output shaft of the motor concerned (without a geared movement transmission mechanism).
- the output shafts of the motors are preferably mounted on bearings of the magnetic type or of the dynamic gas type.
- the bearings are used to support compressors and turbines.
- the refrigeration device 1 comprises two compressors 2, 3 forming two compression stages and an expansion turbine 7. That is to say that the compression mechanism comprises two compressors 2, 3 in series, preferably of the centrifugal type, and the expansion mechanism comprises a single turbine 7, preferably centripetal.
- the compression mechanism comprises two compressors 2, 3 in series, preferably of the centrifugal type
- the expansion mechanism comprises a single turbine 7, preferably centripetal.
- any other number and arrangement of compressor (s), turbine (s) and motor (s) may be considered, for example: three compressors driven respectively by three separate motors, the turbine being for example coupled to one end of the drive shaft of one of these engines or three compressors and two turbines.
- the device could include two compressors and two turbines or three compressors and two or three turbines ...
- Each engine can comprises a shaft, one end of which drives one or more wheels (turbine or compressor) and the other end of which is coupled to one or more wheels (turbine or compressor) or is not coupled to any wheel.
- a cooling heat exchanger 4, 5 is provided at the outlet of two compressors 2, 3 (for example cooling by heat exchange with water at room temperature or any other fluid or cooling agent of a refrigerant circuit 26).
- a reheating exchanger may or may not be provided at the outlet of all or part of the expansion turbines 7 in order to achieve isentropic or isothermal expansion.
- the heating and cooling of the working fluid are preferably isobaric without this being limiting.
- Each cooling heat exchanger 4, 5 comprises an inlet 24, 25 for cooling fluid and an outlet 34, 35 for cooling fluid.
- the cooling fluid outlet 34 of one of the two cooling heat exchangers 4, 5 is connected to the cooling fluid inlet 25 of the other cooling heat exchanger 5 so that of the flow of cooling fluid passing through one of the cooling heat exchangers has already circulated in the other cooling heat exchanger 4.
- the cooling fluid only makes one passage through each cooling heat exchanger 4, 5. That is to say that when the cooling fluid has made a passage and has exchanged with the working fluid, it does not return to it after having carried out, for example, another exchange in another cooling heat exchanger.
- each cooling heat exchanger 4, 5 comprises a single inlet 24, 25 for cooling fluid and an outlet 34, 35 for cooling fluid (thus allowing only one passage in said cooling heat exchanger. at a given temperature, that is to say that there are not several simultaneous passes of the cooling fluid in the cooling heat exchanger at different temperatures or thermodynamic conditions).
- this arrangement also makes it possible to simplify the network of coolant and working gas pipes intended for the heat exchangers 4, 5 or originating from the heat exchangers 4, 5.
- this arrangement makes it easier to organize the fluid circulation circuits (cooling and working) in a reduced space by allowing counter-current circulation between the working fluid and the cooling fluid, this by reducing the number and / or the length of the conduits transporting these fluids.
- the refrigerant circuit 26 supplies cooling fluid firstly to the first cooling heat exchanger 4 and then to the second cooling heat exchanger 5 (the qualifiers "first” and “second” referring to the first and second compression stage in the direction of circulation of the working fluid).
- the directions of circulation of the two fluids preferably transit against the current or in opposite directions in each exchanger.
- the fluidic connection between the two cooling heat exchangers 4, 5 for passing the cooling fluid to be simplified and reduced.
- This transfer can of cooling fluid from one cooling exchanger 4, 5 to the other can in particular be carried out by a short and welded portion of tube, or even a simple tube or fitting between the two heat exchangers 4, 5.
- the two cooling heat exchangers 4, 5 can in particular be arranged adjacent, in particular contiguous. This optimizes the size of the device. for example the two exchangers 4, 5 are side by side in a horizontal plane or one above the other in a vertical plane.
- the two cooling heat exchangers 4, 5 can even be integrated in the same casing 45 or housing comprising two separate passages for the circulation of the working fluid, said two passages being in heat exchange respectively with two portions in series of. the same circulation channel for the cooling fluid circuit.
- each cooling heat exchanger 4, 5 can each have an oblong shape extending in a respective longitudinal direction.
- Each cooling heat exchanger 4, 5 comprises an inlet for working gas to be cooled and an outlet for cooled working gas arranged respectively at two longitudinal ends.
- the cooling heat exchangers 4, 5 can be tube, tube and shell (s), plate and fin type exchangers or any other suitable technology.
- the exchangers can be made of stainless steel, aluminum or any other suitable material (s).
- the two cooling heat exchangers 4, 5 are arranged within the device preferably inverted, that is to say that the respective longitudinal directions of the two cooling heat exchangers 4, 5 are parallel or substantially parallel and the directions of circulation of the working fluid in said cooling heat exchanger 4, 5 are opposite. This arrangement combined with the arrangement of the circulation of the cooling fluid makes it possible to minimize the complexity of the fluid circuits while giving very good performance to the device.
- All or part of the device in particular its cold members, can be housed in a sealed thermally insulated casing 11. (in particular a vacuum chamber containing the common counter-current heat exchanger and the refrigeration exchanger 8).
- the device may include only two compressors and two cooling heat exchangers.
- the invention can be applied to a process for cooling and / or liquefying another fluid or mixture, in particular hydrogen.
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