A thermoacoustically driven pulse tube cryocooler is expected to be highly reliable due to its having no moving parts; this gives it good potential for applications in aerospace cryogenic cooling. However, because mature pulse tube cryocoolers usually operate below 100 Hz, previously developed thermoacoustically driven pulse tube cryocoolers tend to be too large and heavy for aerospace cooling. One means to solve this deadlock is to increase the operating frequency of the cryocooler. In this paper, a thermoacoustically driven thermoacoustic-Stirling cryocooler operating around 500 Hz is studied theoretically. The thermoacoustic-Stirling cryocooler (TASC) is a traveling-wave thermoacoustic refrigerator with acoustical recovery. The thermodynarnic analysis and optimization shows that a high frequency thermoacoustic-Stirling cryocooler can achieve a no-load temperature around 80 K or even lower. In parallel, a thermoacoustic-Stirling heat engine (TASHE) for driving the TASC was also optimized; it shows excellent performance at the high operating frequency. The work provides useful guidance for future experimental prototypes.


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    Title :

    A high frequency thermoacoustically driven thermoacoustic-stirling cryocooler


    Contributors:
    Luo, E.C. (author) / Yu, G.Y. (author) / Zhu, S.L. (author) / Dai, W. (author)


    Publication date :

    2007


    Size :

    7 Seiten, 6 Bilder, 8 Quellen



    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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