WO2018136415A3 - Low cost, high frequency thermoacoustic refrigerator and refrigeration methods - Google Patents

Low cost, high frequency thermoacoustic refrigerator and refrigeration methods Download PDF

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WO2018136415A3
WO2018136415A3 PCT/US2018/013863 US2018013863W WO2018136415A3 WO 2018136415 A3 WO2018136415 A3 WO 2018136415A3 US 2018013863 W US2018013863 W US 2018013863W WO 2018136415 A3 WO2018136415 A3 WO 2018136415A3
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resonator
chambers
high frequency
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heat exchange
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Donald Alfred JORDAN Jr.
Scott David KASEN
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Sonotherm, Llc
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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
    • F25B9/145—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 pulse-tube 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
    • F25B—REFRIGERATION MACHINES, PLANTS OR SYSTEMS; COMBINED HEATING AND REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS
    • F25B2309/00—Gas cycle refrigeration machines
    • F25B2309/14—Compression machines, plants or systems characterised by the cycle used 
    • F25B2309/1404—Pulse-tube cycles with loudspeaker driven acoustic driver
    • 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
    • F25B2309/00—Gas cycle refrigeration machines
    • F25B2309/14—Compression machines, plants or systems characterised by the cycle used 
    • F25B2309/1427—Control of a pulse tube
    • 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
    • F25B2400/00—General features or devices for refrigeration machines, plants or systems, combined heating and refrigeration systems or heat-pump systems, i.e. not limited to a particular subgroup of F25B
    • F25B2400/06—Several compression cycles arranged in parallel

Abstract

An apparatus includes an acoustic driver (also referred to as a "speaker"), a block resonator array (also referred to as a "resonator array" or "material block"), and a heat exchange assembly. The block resonator array includes a body that defines a set of resonator chambers. Each of the resonator chambers can be (but need not be) formed from multiple resonator volume portions (e.g., a first resonator volume and a second resonator volume). One of the resonator chambers and another of the resonator chambers each share (or are formed, in part, from) a common portion of the body. The heat exchange assembly includes a stack and/or regenerator, a hot heat exchanger, and a cold heat exchanger. The heat exchange assembly is operatively coupled to at least one of the resonator chambers.
PCT/US2018/013863 2017-01-17 2018-01-16 Low cost, high frequency thermoacoustic refrigerator and refrigeration methods WO2018136415A2 (en)

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US20150076963A1 (en) * 2013-09-16 2015-03-19 Timothy James Sipp Generator of electricity and refrigeration using induced vibrational and acoustic potential energy reclamation via tuned piezoelectric resonant cavity systems

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DE4303052A1 (en) * 1993-02-03 1994-08-04 Marin Andreev Christov Irreversible thermo-acoustic engine
US6385972B1 (en) * 1999-08-30 2002-05-14 Oscar Lee Fellows Thermoacoustic resonator
US20050109042A1 (en) * 2001-07-02 2005-05-26 Symko Orest G. High frequency thermoacoustic refrigerator
US20130219879A1 (en) * 2012-02-23 2013-08-29 Rodger William Dyson, JR. Alpha-Stream Convertor
US20150076963A1 (en) * 2013-09-16 2015-03-19 Timothy James Sipp Generator of electricity and refrigeration using induced vibrational and acoustic potential energy reclamation via tuned piezoelectric resonant cavity systems

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