Refrigeration – Gas compression – heat regeneration and expansion – e.g.,...
Patent
1996-10-07
1998-06-02
Kilner, Christopher B.
Refrigeration
Gas compression, heat regeneration and expansion, e.g.,...
62 512, 62293, 606 23, F25B 1902
Patent
active
057585059
ABSTRACT:
A miniature mixed gas refrigeration system and method of operation are disclosed. An optimum gas mixture is formulated from a group of component fluids, according to calculated thermodynamic properties of a group of candidate fluid mixtures. The gas mixture is pressurized by a compressor to a pressure less than 420 psia, for safety reasons. The compressed gas mixture is passed through a primary heat exchanger, and then through a primary-to-secondary heat exchanger, to precool the gas mixture. The secondary side of the primary/secondary heat exchanger is cooled by a secondary Joule-Thomson refrigeration system. Properly sized flow restrictions in the primary side of the primary/secondary heat exchanger can solidify and trap liquid contaminants that may be in the gas mixture. The gas mixture exiting the primary outlet of the primary/secondary heat exchanger passes to a primary Joule-Thomson expansion element where the high pressure gas is expanded isenthalpically to a lower temperature at least as low as 183K. This low temperature gas cools a heat transfer element mounted in the outer wall of the catheter, to cool an external object. Return gas flows back through the primary heat exchanger to further pre-cool the incoming high pressure gas mixture. A distal primary heat exchanger can be added between the primary/secondary heat exchanger and the primary Joule-Thomson expansion element.
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Brown Terry L.
Dobak III John D.
Ghaerzadeh Kambiz
Yu Xiaoyu
CryoGen, Inc.
Kilner Christopher B.
Spinks Gerald W.
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