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Design And Fabrication Of A Microscale Joule -Thomson Refrigerator, Lionel Gamini Hewavitharana
Design And Fabrication Of A Microscale Joule -Thomson Refrigerator, Lionel Gamini Hewavitharana
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A simple thermodynamic, heat transfer, and fluid flow model was developed for microscale Joule-Thomson refrigerators (JT devices). For a given geometry, the model predicted that the cooling capacity of the refrigerator increased with the inlet refrigerant pressure. The effectiveness of the JT device also increased with the inlet pressure, and the heat exchanger channel length. At a constant inlet pressure, the effectiveness, and the refrigeration capacity of a given JT device increased as the aspect ratio of heat exchanger channels was increased. For nitrogen refrigerant, the model predicted that it was possible to obtain approximately 250 mW of refrigeration capacity …