1. Development of a turbine-compressor for 10 kW class neon turbo-Brayton refrigerator.
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Hirokazu Hirai, Masaki Hirokawa, Shigeru Yoshida, Tomonobu, Sano, and Shinsuke Ozaki
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TURBOCOMPRESSORS , *WORKING fluids , *NEON , *BRAYTON cycle , *REFRIGERATORS , *LOW pressure (Science) , *HEAT exchangers - Abstract
We are developing 10 kW class turbo-Brayton refrigerator whose working fluid is neon gas. Its high pressure value is 1 MPa and its low pressure value is 0.5 MPa. The refrigerator consists of two turbine-compressors and a heat exchanger. The turbine-compressor has a turbo-expander on one side of its shaft and a turbo-compressor on the other side of the shaft. Two turbo-compressors are connected in series and two turbo-expanders are set in parallel. So, all amount of neon gas is compressed by two stages and each half a mount of neon gas is expanded by one stage. Two turbinecompressors are the same machines and development cost and time are minimized. In this stage, we made one prototype turbine-compressor and installed it in a performance test facility. This paper shows details of the turbine-compressor and refrigerator cooling power simulation results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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