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Performance Testing of a Lightweight, High Efficiency Cooler
A lightweight, high efficiency cryocooler has been tested. The design operating point of the cooler is 10 W at 95 K with a rejection temperature of 300 K, and the goal is a 10 yr operating lifetime. The cooler...
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New Regenerator Materials for Use in Pulse Tube Coolers
A two-stage pulse tube cooler driven by a linear compressor is being developed to provide cooling at 20 K. The first stage of the cooler will have the conventional stainless steel screen regenerator matrix. Th...
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Measuring Thermal Conductivity of Insulators at Cryogenic Temperatures
Traditionally, launch vehicles have consisted of a structure containing the vehicle engines, propellant tanks, and electronics. NASA’s next generation of space transportation vehicles is planned to utilize the...
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Pressure Drop over Regenerators in Oscillating Flow
Modeling the performance of pulse tube coolers and stirling coolers involves estimating the pressure drop over the regenerator. Such pressure drop estimates are generally based on steady flow correlations whic...
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Performance of a Magnetic Refrigerator Operating between 2 K and 10 K
A prototype of an adiabatic demagnetization refrigerator (ADR) designed for space applications, operating between 2 K and 10 K, has been built and tested. The refrigerant for the ADR consists of thick slices o...
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Efficiency Calculations for a Magnetic Refrigerator Operating between 2 K and 10 K
An adiabatic demagnetization refrigerator (ADR) operating between 2 K and 10 K has been built and tested. The refrigerant in the ADR is Gadolinium Gallium Garnet (GGG). Absorption of heat at 2 K and heat rejec...
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Development of a Magnetic Refrigerator Operating between 2 K and 10 K
A prototype adiabatic demagnetization refrigerator (ADR) operating between 2 K and 10 K has been built and tested. The refrigerant for the ADR is Gadolinium Gallium Garnet (GGG). In the design thick slices of ...
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Metastable Heat Flow Phenomena and Droo** Pressure Differences in He II Using Multiple Channel Configurations
Superheating of liquid helium from the He II phase up to 3.0 K is demonstrated in one dimensional multiple channel configurations at pressures below the lamda point pressure. The individual channels have diame...
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Heat Flow in He II in Microbore Channels
This paper reports measurements of the pressure and temperature differences as a function of heat flux over the length of glass microbore tubing containing He II. At low heat fluxes the fluid shows a laminar f...