NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION ON REGENERATIVE HEAT-DRIVEN CRYOCOOLERS FOR ZERO BOIL-OFF STORAGE OF LIQUID HYDROGEN

Jing Luo; Yanyan Chen; Limin Zhang; Vigneshwaran Sankar; Deoras Prabhudharwadkar; Saumitra Saxena; Deanna Lacoste; William Roberts; Ercang Luo

doi:10.1115/GT2022-81737

NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION ON REGENERATIVE HEAT-DRIVEN CRYOCOOLERS FOR ZERO BOIL-OFF STORAGE OF LIQUID HYDROGEN

Jing Luo, Yanyan Chen^*, Limin Zhang, Vigneshwaran Sankar, Deoras Prabhudharwadkar, Saumitra Saxena, Deanna Lacoste, William Roberts, Ercang Luo^*

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Abstract

Aiming at the zero boil-off demand of liquid hydrogen storage tank, this paper uses SAGE software to design and simulate 300 W @ 20 K regenerative heat-driven cryocoolers, verifying the principle feasibility of duplex free-piston Stirling cryocooler and thermoacoustic heat-driven pulse tube cryocooler for the zero boil-off storage of liquid hydrogen. The results show that under the design conditions of mean pressure of 5 MPa, the operating frequency of 50 Hz, the heating temperature of 500°C, and ambient temperature of 30°C, the exergy efficiency of the duplex free-piston Stirling cryocooler can reach 19.4%, while the exergy efficiency of the thermoacoustic heat-driven pulse tube cryocooler is 14.3%. However, because a fixed-parameter harmonic oscillator is used to couple the engine and the cryocooler in the duplex free-piston Stirling cryocooler, it is difficult to achieve multi-condition matching, which makes it very sensitive to changes in operating parameters such as mean pressure and heating temperature. In contrast, the thermoacoustic heat-driven pulse tube cryocooler is completely free of moving parts and has excellent adaptability to the operating conditions. Therefore, the thermoacoustic heatdriven pulse tube cryocooler may be a promising solution in the application field of zero boil-off storage of liquid hydrogen.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Cycle Innovations; Cycle Innovations
Subtitle of host publication	Energy Storage
Publisher	The American Society of Mechanical Engineers(ASME)
ISBN (Electronic)	9780791886014
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1115/GT2022-81737
State	Published - 2022
Event	ASME Turbo Expo 2022: Turbomachinery Technical Conference and Exposition, GT 2022 - Rotterdam, Netherlands Duration: Jun 13 2022 → Jun 17 2022

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Name	Proceedings of the ASME Turbo Expo
Volume	4

Conference

Conference	ASME Turbo Expo 2022: Turbomachinery Technical Conference and Exposition, GT 2022
Country/Territory	Netherlands
City	Rotterdam
Period	06/13/22 → 06/17/22

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Funding Information:
This study is supported by CCF funding from the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).

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Copyright © 2022 by ASME.

Keywords

exergy efficiency
numerical simulation
regenerative heat-driven cryocooler
sensitivity analysis
Zero boil-off of liquid hydrogen

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Luo, J., Chen, Y., Zhang, L., Sankar, V., Prabhudharwadkar, D., Saxena, S., Lacoste, D., Roberts, W., & Luo, E. (2022). NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION ON REGENERATIVE HEAT-DRIVEN CRYOCOOLERS FOR ZERO BOIL-OFF STORAGE OF LIQUID HYDROGEN. In Cycle Innovations; Cycle Innovations: Energy Storage Article V004T07A002 (Proceedings of the ASME Turbo Expo; Vol. 4). The American Society of Mechanical Engineers(ASME). https://doi.org/10.1115/GT2022-81737

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Luo, J, Chen, Y, Zhang, L, Sankar, V , Prabhudharwadkar, D , Saxena, S , Lacoste, D , Roberts, W & Luo, E 2022, NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION ON REGENERATIVE HEAT-DRIVEN CRYOCOOLERS FOR ZERO BOIL-OFF STORAGE OF LIQUID HYDROGEN. in Cycle Innovations; Cycle Innovations: Energy Storage., V004T07A002, Proceedings of the ASME Turbo Expo, vol. 4, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers(ASME), ASME Turbo Expo 2022: Turbomachinery Technical Conference and Exposition, GT 2022, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 06/13/22. https://doi.org/10.1115/GT2022-81737

NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION ON REGENERATIVE HEAT-DRIVEN CRYOCOOLERS FOR ZERO BOIL-OFF STORAGE OF LIQUID HYDROGEN. / Luo, Jing; Chen, Yanyan; Zhang, Limin et al.
Cycle Innovations; Cycle Innovations: Energy Storage. The American Society of Mechanical Engineers(ASME), 2022. V004T07A002 (Proceedings of the ASME Turbo Expo; Vol. 4).

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NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION ON REGENERATIVE HEAT-DRIVEN CRYOCOOLERS FOR ZERO BOIL-OFF STORAGE OF LIQUID HYDROGEN

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