Cryocoolers 9

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii An Overview of Air Force Phillips Laboratory Cryocooler Programs....Pages 1-9 A Case Study of a Successful Cryogenic Cooler Development Program....Pages 11-16 The DOD Family of Linear Drive Coolers for Weapon Systems....Pages 17-24 And What about Cryogenic Refrigeration?....Pages 25-27 Prototype Spacecraft Cryocooler Progress....Pages 29-34 Hughes Aircraft Company SSC I & II Performance Mapping Results....Pages 35-44 Development and Demonstration of the Creare 65 K Standard Spacecraft Cryocooler....Pages 45-53 Test Results for the Ball Single-Stage Advanced Flight Prototype Cryocooler....Pages 55-58 The Batch Manufacture of Stirling-Cycle Coolers for Space Applications Including Test, Qualification, and Integration Issues....Pages 59-68 System Test Performance for the Ball Two-Stage Stirling-Cycle Cryocooler....Pages 69-77 Improvements to the Cooling Power of a Space Qualified Two-Stage Stirling Cycle Cooler....Pages 79-88 Design and Development of a 20K Stirling-Cycle Cooler for FIRST....Pages 89-96 Path to Low Cost and High Reliability Stirling Coolers....Pages 97-108 Miniature Long Life Tactical Stirling Cryocoolers....Pages 109-118 Experimental and Predicted Performance of the BEI Mini-Linear Cooler....Pages 119-125 Space Qualification Test Plan Development, Implementation, and Results for the STRV-2 1.0-watt Tactical Cryocooler....Pages 127-138 Reduction of Surface Heat Pumping Effect in Split-Stirling Cryocoolers....Pages 139-146 A Stirling Cycle Analysis with Gas-Wall Heat Transfer in Compressor and Expander....Pages 147-156 Cyclic Simulation of Stirling Cryogenerator with Two-Component Two-Phase Fluid....Pages 157-162 Cryocooler Transient Performance Modeling....Pages 163-171 New Mid-Size High Efficiency Pulse Tube Coolers....Pages 173-182 Performance Characterization of the TRW 3503 and 6020 Pulse Tube Coolers....Pages 183-193 Performance of the AIRS Pulse Tube Engineering Model Cryocooler....Pages 195-202 Advanced Pulse Tube Cold Head Development....Pages 203-212 50–80K Pulse Tube Cryocooler Development....Pages 213-221 80 K Miniature Pulse Tube Refrigerator Performance....Pages 223-228 Development of a Low-Cost Cryocooler for HTS Applications....Pages 229-237 An Experimental Investigation of the Pulse Tube Refrigerator....Pages 239-245 Pulse-Tube Refrigerator and Nitrogen Liquefier with Active Buffer System....Pages 247-253 Two-Stage Double-Inlet Pulse Tube Refrigerator down to 10 K....Pages 255-260 Early Pulse Tube Refrigerator Developments....Pages 261-268 Phase Shift Effect of the Long Neck Tube for the Pulse Tube Refrigerator....Pages 269-278 Experimental Study on the Pulse Tube Refrigerator with Two Relief Valves....Pages 279-284 Experiments on the Effects of Pulse Tube Geometry on PTR Performance....Pages 285-293 An Experimental Investigation of a Single-Stage Two-Pulse-Tube Refrigerator....Pages 295-300 UCLA Pulse Tube Investigations....Pages 301-308 Reversible Cycle Piston Pulse Tube Cryocooler....Pages 309-318 Isothermal Model of a Warm Expander Pulse Tube....Pages 319-326 A Simple Modeling Program for Orifice Pulse Tube Coolers....Pages 327-334 A One-Dimensional Model of High-Frequency Pulse Tube Heat and Mass Flows....Pages 335-344 Higher Order Pulse Tube Modeling....Pages 345-353 Visualization Study of Velocity Profiles and Displacements of Working Gas Inside a Pulse Tube Refrigerator....Pages 355-364 Investigation of Radial Temperature and Velocity Profiles in Oscillating Flows Inside a Pulse Tube Refrigerator....Pages 365-374 An Experimental Investigation of How the Heat Pumping Mechanism in a Pulse Tube Changes with Frequency....Pages 375-383 DC Gas Flows in Stirling and Pulse Tube Cryocoolers....Pages 385-392 Convective Heat Losses in Pulse Tube Coolers: Effect of Pulse Tube Inclination....Pages 393-402 Advanced Compressor for Long-Life Cryocoolers....Pages 403-412 Flexure Bearing Analysis Procedures and Design Charts....Pages 413-420 Investigation of Gas Effects on Cryocooler Resonance Characteristics....Pages 421-430 Thermodynamic Comparison between the Orifice Pulse Tube and the Stirling Refrigerator....Pages 431-440 Application of the Periodic Temperature Variation Technique to the Measurement of Heat Transfer Coefficients in High-NTU Matrices....Pages 441-450 3-D Flow Model for Cryocooler Regenerators....Pages 451-458 Measurement of Heat Conduction through Stacked Screens....Pages 459-464 A Single Stage Reverse Brayton Cryocooler: Performance and Endurance Tests on the Engineering Model....Pages 465-474 Progress on the Development of Miniature Turbomachines for Low-Capacity Reverse-Brayton Cryocoolers....Pages 475-483 Experimental Study of the Isentropic Efficiency of the Pulse Tube Expansion Process....Pages 485-492 Joule-Thomson Cryocooler Development at Ball Aerospace....Pages 493-508 Low Cost Cryocoolers for Cryoelectronics....Pages 509-513 A Throttle Cycle Cryocooler Operating with Mixed Gas Refrigerants in 70 K to 120 K Temperature Range....Pages 515-520 80 K Throttle-Cycle Refrigerator Cost Reduction....Pages 521-528 Experimental Investigation of an Efficient Closed-Cycle Mixed-Refrigerant J-T Cooler....Pages 529-535 65 K Two-Stage MR/O 2 Throttle Cycle Refrigerator....Pages 537-546 Closed-Cycle Neon Refrigerator for High-Temperature Superconducting Magnets....Pages 547-555 Design and Testing of a Combined Stirling-Cycle Joule-Thomson Cryocooler System....Pages 557-566 Flight Demonstration of a 10 K Sorption Cryocooler....Pages 567-576 Continuous and Periodic Sorption Cryocoolers for 10 K and Below....Pages 577-586 Preliminary Test Results for a 25 K Sorption Cryocooler Designed for the UCSB Long Duration Balloon Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation Experiment....Pages 587-596 Experiments on a Charcoal/Nitrogen Sorption Compressor and Model Considerations....Pages 597-606 Low Cost Gifford-McMahon Cryocooler Development Program....Pages 607-615 Development of a 2W Class 4 K Gifford- McMahon Cycle Cryocooler....Pages 617-626 Geometric Scaling of a 4.2 K Gifford-McMahon Refrigerator....Pages 627-636 The Effect of Pressure Loss at Intake/Exhaust Valve on Performance of a 4K G-M Cryocooler....Pages 637-642 The Valve Timing Effect on Cooling Power of 4 K Gifford-McMahon Cryocooler....Pages 643-651 A Neodymium Plate Regenerator for Low-Temperature Gifford-McMahon Refrigerators....Pages 653-662 Influence of Alloying on the Behavior and Properties of Er 3 Ni....Pages 663-668 Processing and Testing of the Low-Temperature Stage Er 6 Ni 2 Sn Cryogenic Regenerator Alloy....Pages 669-674 Promising Refrigerants for the 4.2 — 20 K Region....Pages 675-679 The Los Alamos Solid-State Optical Refrigerator....Pages 681-686 Microcooling: Study on the Application of Micromechanical Techniques....Pages 687-696 Investigation into Vibration Issues of Sunpower M77 Cryocoolers....Pages 697-704 Summary and Results of Hughes Improved Standard Spacecraft Cryocooler Vibration Suppression Experiment....Pages 705-710 MOPITT Stirling Cycle Cooler Vibration Performance Results....Pages 711-718 Summary and Results of a Space-Based Active Cryocooler Vibration Suppression Experiment....Pages 719-726 Vibration Reduction in a Set-Up of Two Split Type Stirling Cryocoolers....Pages 727-736 Throttle Cycle Cooler Vibration Characterization....Pages 737-745 Development of a 60K Thermal Storage Unit....Pages 747-764 Temperature Stabilization on Cold Stage of 4 K G-M Cryocooler....Pages 765-771 Reduction of Parasitic Heat Loads to Cryogenically Cooled Components....Pages 773-782 Cryocooler Heat Interceptor Test for the SMTS Program....Pages 783-793 Feasibility Demonstration of a Thermal Switch for Dual Temperature IR Focal Plane Cooling....Pages 795-805 An Advanced Solderless Flexible Thermal Link....Pages 807-812 Development and Testing of a Demountable Cryocooler Thermal Interface....Pages 813-821 Thermal Conductance of Multilam Make and Break Cryocooler Thermal Interface....Pages 823-830 Heat Pipes for Enhanced Cooldown of Cryogenic Systems....Pages 831-839 Control Electronics Development for Space-Based Cryocoolers....Pages 841-852 Cooler Test Data Acquisition and Environmental Control Software....Pages 853-860 Cryogenic Systems Integration Model (CSIM)....Pages 861-872 Spacecraft Cryocooler System Integration Trades and Optimization....Pages 873-884 AIRS Cryocooler System Design and Development....Pages 885-894 AIRS Pulse Tube Cryocooler System....Pages 895-903 The Qualification and Use of Miniature Tactical Cryocoolers for Space Applications....Pages 905-915 The Design, Development and Qualification of the SCIAMACHY Radiant Cooler....Pages 917-923 Integration of HTS SQUIDs with Portable Cooling Devices for the Detection of Materials Defects in Non-Destructive Evaluation....Pages 925-934 Stirling Cooler Magnetic Interference Measured by a High-Tc SQUID Mounted on the Cold Tip....Pages 935-942 Cryocooler Integration with High Temperature Superconducting Motors....Pages 943-948 Integration of a Photoconductive Detector with a 4K Cryocooler....Pages 949-958 Back Matter....Pages 959-967 Government Cryocooler Development Programs.- An Overview of Air Force Phillips Laboratory Cryocooler Programs.- A Case Study of a Successful Cryogenic Cooler Development Program.- The DOD Family of Linear Drive Coolers for Weapon Systems.- And What about Cryogenic Refrigeration?.- Space Stirling Cryocooler Developments.- Prototype Spacecraft Cryocooler Progress.- Hughes Aircraft Company SSC I & II Performance Mapping Results.- Development and Demonstration of the Creare 65 K Standard Spacecraft Cryocooler.- Test Results for the Ball Single-Stage Advanced Flight Prototype Cryocooler.- The Batch