Design of non-flammable mixed refrigerant Joule-Thomson refrigerator for precooling stage of high temperature superconducting power cable

•Non-flammable mixed refrigerant Joule-Thomson refrigerator designed in this paper.•The HTS power cable pre-cooling system is designed in this paper.•Mixture of N2, Ar, R14 and R218 are utilized to develop the temperature of 100K.•The cascade type MR JT refrigerator has the maximum COP of 0.216 at 1...

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Published in:Cryogenics (Guildford) 2017-01, Vol.81, p.14-23
Main Authors: Lee, Cheonkyu, Jin, Lingxue, Park, Changgi, Jeong, Sangkwon
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Argon
Cascade refrigeration
Component reliability
Cooling
Cryogenics
Design optimization
Exergy
Flammability
Flow velocity
High temperature superconductors
Industrial applications
Joule-Thomson refrigerator
Liquid nitrogen
Low temperature physics
Mass flow rate
Mixed refrigerant
Neon
Non-flammable
Power cables
Precooling
Refrigeration
Refrigerators
Superconductivity
Tetrafluoromethane
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Summary:•Non-flammable mixed refrigerant Joule-Thomson refrigerator designed in this paper.•The HTS power cable pre-cooling system is designed in this paper.•Mixture of N2, Ar, R14 and R218 are utilized to develop the temperature of 100K.•The cascade type MR JT refrigerator has the maximum COP of 0.216 at 105K. A cryogenic Joule-Thomson (JT) refrigerator has many advantages for large industrial applications, including easy cooling power adjustability and high reliability because there are no moving parts at low temperature. In this paper, a single stage and a cascade type of non-flammable (NF) mixed refrigerant (MR) JT refrigerators have been proposed for the precooling process of a neon/nitrogen mixed refrigerant JT refrigerator. The neon/nitrogen MR JT refrigerator is used to maintain a subcooled state of liquid nitrogen coolant for an HTS (high temperature superconductor) cable. Both selected MRs for the 1st stage (low temperature cycle) of the cascade MR JT refrigerator and the single MR JT refrigerator are composed of Nitrogen (N2), Argon (Ar), Tetrafluoromethane (CF4, R14) and Octafluoropropane (C3F8, R218). R410A is selected as the refrigerant for the 2nd stage (high temperature cycle) of the cascade MR JT refrigerator, of which the cooling temperature is approximately 240K. A commercial software with Peng-Robinson equation of state (EOS) is utilized to design the non-flammable MR JT refrigerator. The optimal design is discussed with consideration for various parameters such as the temperature staging, the operating pressure of the compressor and the mass flow rate of the working fluid. The maximum coefficient of performance (COP) and Carnot efficiency of the cascade MR JT refrigerator are obtained as 0.216 and 40%, respectively at 105K. Exergy analysis is also carried out in this paper to reveal the irreversibility of the refrigeration cycle.
ISSN:0011-2275
1879-2235
DOI:10.1016/j.cryogenics.2016.11.003