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Development and testing of a multi-plate recuperative heat exchanger for use in a hybrid cryocooler.

Author(s) : HOCH D. W., NELLIS G. F., MEAGHER N. L., et al.

Summary

The focus of this paper is on the recuperative heat exchanger, which uses chemically etched copper plates interleaved with stainless steel axial conduction barriers. A model of the recuperative heat exchanger is described; the model is used to optimize the geometry subject to constraints associated with fabrication and mass. A sub-scale module has been fabricated in order to verify the model and develop the fabrication techniques. The experimentally measured ineffectiveness of the sub-scale module agrees with the model predictions. Based on the success of the sub-scale module and using the verified heat exchanger model, two full-scale modules have been fabricated, assembled and tested at the component level. The performance of the full-scale modules is compared with the model prediction.

Details

  • Original title: Development and testing of a multi-plate recuperative heat exchanger for use in a hybrid cryocooler.
  • Record ID : 2008-1033
  • Languages: English
  • Publication date: 2006/06/14
  • Source: Source: Proc. 14th int. Cryocooler Conf., Annapolis, MD
    515-524; fig.; phot.; tabl.; 5 ref.

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