Abstract:
Helium Joule-Thomson(JT)cryocooler has become one of the mainstream technologies for space liquid helium temperature cooling.The typical helium JT cryocooler contains two power-consuming components:precooler and JT compressor.For space application of helium JT cryocooler,the total power consumption of the precooler and JT compressor is the key indicator.This paper takes the 100 mW@4.2 K JT cryocooler as the research object,and the minimum power consumption as the goal.By analyzing the minimum power consumption required by the cryocooler under the parameter combination of precooling temperature and high-pressure,the optimal operating parameters of helium JT cryocooler are obtained.Based on the two stage pulse tube precooler develop by the Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics,the total pow-er consumption of the JT cryocooler is calculated.The calculation results show that under the cooling target of 100 mW@4.2 K,when
Tpre2 is 18 K,
ph is 1.85 MPa,the overall energy efficiency of the cryocooler is the highest,the total power consumption is 358 W,and the relative Carnot efficiency(r
COP) is 1.96%.The optimal operating parameter matching strategy can also be used to select the optimal operating parameters of a two-stage precooling large-scale JT device.