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US3007596A
US3007596A US597947A US59794756A US3007596A US 3007596 A US3007596 A US 3007596A US 597947 A US597947 A US 597947A US 59794756 A US59794756 A US 59794756A US 3007596 A US3007596 A US 3007596A
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  • This invention relates to an improved insulation having a high resistance to all modes of heat transfer, and particularly concerns la low temperature, heat insulating material adapted to improve a vacuum insulating system.
  • the basic systems for insulating the conventional double walled container for the conveyance and storage of low boiling liquefied gases are for small containers, the Dewar type high vacuum-polished metal surface system and for large containers, the powder-in-vacuurn insulation System, which uses an insulating powder in the vacuum space between the walls.
  • This system is described in detail in U.S. Patent 2,396,459.
  • powder-invacuuxn heat insulation is effective in reducing thermal heat loss, it is not as effective as straight vacuum-polished metal surface for containers up to two feet in diameter.
  • Patent 2,396,459 the vacuum being on the 'order of 0.1 micron of mercury absolute, a thermal conductivity of 9.2X104 Btu/hr., sq. ft., F./iit. may be achieved. ln order to more fully appreciate the significance of such a thermal'conductivity, :the insulating effects of the following insulation thicknesses are set forth.
  • An insulation thickness of 1.6.6 inches of a powder-in-vacuurn insulation will permit an evaporation loss. of 7.1% per day.
  • Such an insulation thickness results in an insulation cross sectional area equal to the useful cross sectional area of the inner storage container. In other words, beyond the thickness of 1.66 inches, the bulk of the insulation which must be stored land/ or transported becomes greater than the bulk of the contained stored material.
  • a lower quality reflective surface may be tolerated by interposing several concentric reflective shields within the insulation space as described in U.S. Patent 2,643,022.
  • one of the difficulties involved in such an arrangement is in assembling and supporting many reflective shields within a reasonable insulation thickness so that each shield is properly spaced from adjacent shields at all points. Proper spacing is an absolute necessity, for if two adjacent shields are permitted t0contact in even a minute area, the insulating effect of one shield will be essentially cancelled out.
  • the number of shields required depends on their surfacerellectivity. If
  • Another object of the present invention is to provide a novel insulating material in an insulation system where radiation would otherwise be an important mode of heat transfer.
  • Another object of the invention is to provide in a low heat conductive material wherein radiation is the predominant remaining mode of heat transfer, one or more parallel radiant heat barriers interposed in said low conductive material for substantially reducing the passage of radiant heat therethrough.
  • Yet another object of the invention is to provide in a low heat conductive insulation, a series of spaced, heat reflecting barriers so constructed and arranged as to impede the passage of radiant heat through said insulation without affecting the thermal conductivity thereof.
  • Another object of the present invention is to provide in a restricted gas-evacuated insulating space, a plurality of radiation barriers, said barriers being disposed in spaced relation to each other, and maintained in such spaced position by a low heat conductive spacing material.
  • Still another object of the present invention is to provide in a vacuum-solid insulating space for small portable containers, a multiplicity of radiation barriers comprising spaced and parallel foils of heat reflective material for reducing the transfer of heat by radiation, and a spacing material between said radiation barriers, cornprising a low-conductive, heat insulating material for reducing the transfer of heat by conduction between said barriers.
  • a further object of the present invention is to provide an improved method of fabricating and applying a heat insulation for cylindrical containers wherein the heat insulation comprises a low-conductive, heat insulating material for reducing the transfer of heat by conduction, and incorporates therein a multiplicity of radiation sheet barriers for reducing the transfer of heat by radiation.
  • a further object of the present invention is to provide in an enclosed volume defining a gas evacuated insulating space, a novel insulating structure adapted to fill the insulating space and effect contact with the wall surfaces defining the insulating space, said insulating space being characterized by the absence of gross voids, and having a low rate of heat transfer by conduction and radiation.
  • FIG. l is a front elevational view, partly in section, of a double walled liquid gas container embodying the principles of the invention
  • FIG. 2 is an isometric view of the composite insulating material of the invention shown in a flattened position with parts broken away to expose underlying layers;
  • FIG. 3 is a greatly enlarged detail sectional view showing the irregular path of heat transfer through the composite insulating material of the invention
  • FIG. 4 is a sectional view taken along line 4 4 of FIG. l, illustrating the spiral wrapping of insulating material of the invention
  • FIG. 5 is a sectional view similar to FIG. 4, but showing a concentric layered modification thereof.
  • FIG. 6 is a fragmentary elevational view, in section, of a modified double walled liquid gas container embodying the principles of the invention.
  • the insulating qualities of an evacuated insulating space may be substantially enhanced to a degree never before attained with a novel insulating structure, which may occupy part of or the entire insulating space.
  • the insulating structure does not require numerous brace bars or other supports, does not provide gross voids in the insulating space, and can also be employed as a novel means for elastically supporting the insulated inner container.
  • vacuum as used hereinafter is intended to apply to sub-atmospheric absolute pressure conditions not substantially greater than 5000 microns of mercury, and preferably below 1000 microns of mercury.
  • the pressure should preferably be below 25 microns of mercury.
  • a vacuum insulated space is provided with a low heat conductive material having incorporated therein one or more radiation barriers disposed substantially transversely to the direction of heat flow in spaced relation to each other.
  • the radiation barriers or shields of the invention may comprise one or more sheets of heat absorbing material, or preferably thin sheets or layers of a material possessing high reflecting characteristics when exposed to infra-red radiation, such as aluminum or tin foil.
  • the low conductive material also acts as a supporting and spacing material for retaining the radiation barrier sheets in uniformly spaced relation to each other independently of the thickness and stiffness of the barriers. In this manner it is possible for a large number of thin foils to be supportably mounted and maintained in position in an insulation space of limited thickness. A clearance of a few thousandths of an inch between foils is enough to effectively interrupt and reflect the radiant heat. In this way it is possible to provide a large number of shields in a very limited space, ranging up to several hundred shields per inch of composite insulation thickness.
  • FIG. l Shown in FIG. l is a double walled heat insulating vessel having parallel inner and outer container walls 10a and 10b and an evacuated insulating space 11 therebetween.
  • a composite insulation material 12 embodying the principles of the invention, and comprising essentially a low heat conductive material 13 having incorporated therein multiple reflective shields or radiation barriers 14 in contiguous relation for diminishing the transfer of heat by radiation across the insulating space 11.
  • the insulation occupies the entire insulating space 11, and appears as a series of spaced reflectors 14 disposed substantially transversely to direction of heat flow and supportably carried by the solid, low conductive insulating material.
  • the insulating material is shown in FIG. l.
  • each radiation shield uniformly contacts and supports the entire surface of each radiation shield in superposed relation and, in addition to its primary purpose of serving as an insulating material, constitutes a carrier and spacing material for maintaining a separation space between adjacent shields. No other supports are required to maintain the insulation in operative assembled relation.
  • the radiation shield material 14 to be used in the insulation material 12 of the invention may comprise either a metal, metal oxide, or metal coated material, such as aluminum coated plastic lm, or other-radiation refiective or radiation absorptive material or a suitable combination thereof.
  • Radiation reflective materials comprising thin metallic foils are admirably suited in the practice of the present invention, while reective sheets of aluminum foil having a thickness between 0.2 mm. and @.002 mm. are preferred.
  • Other radiation reiiective materials which are susceptible of use in the practice of the invention are tin, silver, gold, copper, cadmium or other metals.
  • the base material lf3 of the invention may be a suitably low conductive material such as fiber insulation, which may be produced in sheet form. It should preferably be thin enough to -be liexibly bent.
  • the spacing materials which give excellent results are the porous unbonded fiber-type insulating materials which do not give ofi gas, for example, a filamentary glass material such as glass wool and ber glass, the latter being preferred because of its low conductivity and foraminous structure, and the ease with which the air spaces within the brous structure may be evacuated.
  • the base material may also comprise a combination of the fibers with low conductive powder insulation, vas specified hereinafter, or any other combination of suitably low conductive materials.
  • the low conductive sheet of ber glass separating material i3 to be used in the present vacuum-solid insulating system should be fabricated in such manner that its fibers are, for all intents and purposes, randomly disposed within the plane of the separating sheet, and oriented in a direction substantially perpendicular to the flow of heat.
  • the fibers will not be individually confined to a single plane, but rather, in a finite thickness of fibrous material, the fibers will be generally disposed in thin parallel strata with, of course, some indiscriminate cross weaving of iibers across the various strata.
  • the path of solid conduction from the first sheet of aluminum foil to the second is greatly lengthened, and encompasses an indeinitely large number of point contact resistances between contacting iibers.
  • a multi-layer insulation having a series of heat reflecting sheets and a fiber oriented sheet of low conductive insulating material .therebetween may be particularly ehicient in preventing or diminishing heat losses by radiation, as well as by conduction.
  • the radiation shield spacing may vary from one-half to two hundred la yers per inch. Where the quality of the insulation is of prime importance, the preferred number of shields may vary between 4 and l0() shields per inch.
  • the insulation may be also related tothe size of the container to which it is applied. Thus, for small containers having a diameter less than two feet, an insulation thickness up to three inches is desirable, using at least l5 layers of shields per inch in a glass fiber insulation having a fiber diameter less than one micron.
  • the insulation thickness may vary up to 24 inches, and the shield spacing may be as great as 1/2 shield per inch or one shield for every two inches of insulation thickness.
  • the insulation thickness should contain at least one radiation shield, and the shield spacing should not exceed 5% of the container diameter.
  • the usual space should preferably contain a minimum number of at least three shields. It is to be understood, however, that the invention is not necessarily limited to the above ranges, and that a larger or smaller number of shields may be satisfactorily employed in the practice of the invention, depending upon the particular conditions involved in the application of the invention.
  • the flexibility of the layers of aluminum foil and fiber glass allows the insulation thickness as a whole -to be pliably bent so as to conform to irregularities and changes in the surface conditions of the container to be insulated.
  • the cornposite material of the invention is adapted to be applied to contoured surfaces, and is particularly well suited for insulating either iiat or cylindrical surfaces.
  • the multiple foil insulation of the invention may be mounted in the insulation space in any one of a variety oi' ways.
  • the insulation 12 may be mounted concentricaily with respect to the inner container lita, or it may be, as in FlG. 4,' spirally wrapped around the inner container with one end of the insulation wrapping in contact with the inner container dita, and ⁇ the other end nearest the outer container 10b or in actual contact therewith, the latter form ⁇ of Vmounting being preferred and illustrated herein.
  • the composite insulation of the present invention does not support the walls of the vacuum space against external loads and, hence, is external load-free.
  • the metal foil may be loosely spirally wrapped around ythe inner container "a, the tightness and number of turns being varied to ⁇ suit the particular conditions, or the requirements desired. Tightening of the insulation wrapping causes the low conductive and resilient fibrous material to be compressed into a smaller space. This action decreases the percentage voids in the fibrous material, and increases the cross sectional area of the effective path of solid conduction. However, the voids are reduced in size, which results in the insulation being less sensitive to changes in casing pressure.
  • the composite insulation material 12 of the invention may be employed in the cylindrical portion 11a of the insulation space 11, and the end portions 11b of the insulation space, including the fiat bottom portion and the upper spherical portion, provided with a supplemental low heat conductive material 16.
  • the supplemental low heat conductive materials which may be used in the terminal sections 11b may comprise a finely divided powder of the type disclosed in U.S. Patent No. 2,396,459, or any other suitably low conductive material.
  • the supplemental insulation 16 maintains the extremities of the individual foil barriers 14 in spaced apart relation, and provides the means for producing low thermal heat transfers in containers of a wide variety of shapes.
  • the cooperative relationship between the supplemental insulation 16 and the composite insulation 12 meets the requirements of the most critical present day insulation standards, and has extended the usefulness and capabilities of the present invention.
  • a very significant advantage of the present invention arises from the elastic properties of the insulation, particularly when a fibrous insulation is employed in the annular insulating space of a double Walled container.
  • the ability of the insulation to give and resist movement of the inner container, and to restore or expand itself when the forces exerted upon it are relaxed, enables it to operate along the lines of a shock mount.
  • Obvious advantages to using the insulation as an elastic support are that the inner container is maintained in substantially centered position, and the need for braces or other supports is obviated, thus further reducing the heat leak into the container.
  • pressure in the insulation space is less than 0.1 micron of mercury, while in Table II the pressure is varied as indicated therein.
  • ber diameter of the low conductive spacing material is the ber diameter of the low conductive spacing material.
  • ber diameters up to about 50 microns may be satisfactorily employed in the practice of the invention.
  • a small ber diameter of less than 10 microns is desirable, while a fiber diameter less than 1 micron is preferred for superior quality insulations.
  • the gas pressure in the insulating space is affected by changes in pressure, the thermal conductivity increasing with increasing air pressure.
  • the adverse effect of increased pressure may be minimized by filling the voids between the fibers for example with a very fine, low conductive powder.
  • the present invention provides in a solid-in-vacuum type insulation, a low heat conductive material having incorporated therein multiple radiation shields for impeding radiative heat transmission through the insulation, while minimizing the ow of heat by conduction therethrough.
  • the low conductive material uniformly supports and maintains the radiation shields in spaced relation.
  • a low conductive material which is admirably suited for use in the practice of the invention is one having a iibrous structure oriented in a direction perpendicular to the direction Vof heat iiow. Possessed or" a high percentage of voids, the low conductive insulating material provides a very small, solid conduction heat path between radiation foils, and is remarkably efficient in minimizing the transmission of heat leak by conduction.
  • insulating systems of the invention using a ne diameter, low conductive, fiber-type insulating material, have been found to be superior to any known insulating systern.
  • the present insulation achieves low thermal conductivities, which are comparable or superior to those obtained with either high quality straight vacuums or the best powderin-vacuum systems known, yet is considerably less eX- pensive than either of these forms of insulation, and does not require as low absolute pressures as straight vacuumpolished metal insulating systems.
  • a low heat conductive fibrous material In a Vacuum insulating space, a low heat conductive fibrous material, a multiplicity of radiation-impervious sheets supportably carried by said fibrous material, said radiation-impervious sheets being disposed in parallel spaced relation to each other, and said fibrous material having a iber orientation substantially parallel to said sheets and substantially perpendicular to the direction of heat ow across said space, and a line low-conductive powder in the voids between the bers of said iibrous material, whereby said sheets and iibrous material are effective in reducing the transmission of radiant heat across said space without perceptibly increasing the heat transmission by conduction thereacross, and whereby said powder reduces the variation in thermal conductivity of said fibrous material and sheets due to changes in pressure conditions in said space.
  • An apparatus provided with a gas evacuated insulating space surrounding a storage container and being enclosed by rigid, self-supporting walls, a heat insulative and radiation-impervious composite flexible material comprising a multiplicity of thin-flexible, radiant heat barrier layers of thickness between 0.002 mm. and 0.2 mm.
  • said radiant heat barrier lowconductive yfibrous sheet composite insulating material being spirally wound suliiciently tightly to provide at least 4 radiant heat barriers per inch of composite insulation and disposed generally perpendicular to the direction of heat inleak across said space.
  • An apparatus provided with a vacuum insulating space according to claim 2, the fibrous sheet layers consisting of filamentary glass material.
  • a container for the holding of materials'at low temperatures comprising an inner vessel having rigid, self-supporting walls for holding such material, a larger outer gas-tight shell also having rigid, self-supporting Walls extending about said inner vessel, providing therewith an intervening evacuable external load-tree insulation space at an absolute pressure not substantially greater than 25 microns of mercury, said insulation space containing a series of spaced layers of porous, fibrous, low heat conductive, oriented material wherein the liber diam'- eters are less than about l0 microns, and a series of spaced radiation barriers of thickness between 0.002 mm. 0.2 mm.
  • the radiant heat barrier-low conductive fibrous sheet composite insulating material being spirally around said inner vessel sufficiently tightly to provide at least 4 radiant heat barriers per inch of composite insulation and disposed generally perpendicular to the direction of heat in eak across said space.
  • an external load-free solid-in-vacuum thermal insulation disposed within such space comprising the combination with a multi-convoluted wrapping on such inner wall consisting of a continuous thin sheet of reective metal foil of thickness between 0.002 mm.
  • a composite multi-layered, external load-free insulation in said space comprising low conductive l'ibrous sheet material layers composed of ibers for reducing heat transfer by gaseous conduction and thin, ilexible sheet radiation barrier layers, said radiation barrier layers being supportably carried in superposed relation by said brous sheet layers to provide a large number of radiation barrier layers in a limited space for reducing the transmission of radiant heat across said space Without perceptively increasing the heat transmission by solid conduction thereacross, each radiation barrier layer being disposed in contiguous relation on opposite sides with a layer of the fibrous sheet material, the bers of said brous sheet material being oriented substantially parallel to the radiation barrier layers and substantially perpendicular to the direction of heat inleak across the insulating space, said brous sheet material being composed of bers having diameters less than about 10 microns, said radiation barrier sheet having a thickness less than about 0.2 mm., and said multi-layered composite insulation being disposed in the insulation space to provide more

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