Magnetic refrigeration apparatus with belt of ferro or paramagnetic material

Patent · Thu Apr 03 00:00:00 EST 1986

OSTI ID:6448674

Barclay, J A; Stewart, W F; Henke, M D; Kalash, K E

A magnetic refrigerator operating in the 12 to 77 K range utilizes a belt which carries ferromagnetic or paramagnetic material and which is disposed in a loop which passes through the center of a solenoidal magnet to achieve cooling. The magnetic material carried by the belt, which can be blocks in frames of a linked belt, can be a mixture of substances with different Curie temperatures arranged such that the Curie temperatures progressively increase from one edge of the belt to the other. This magnetic refrigerator can be used to cool and liquefy hydrogen or other fluids.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-36
• Assignee: Dept. of Energy
• Application Number: ON: DE87007225
• OSTI ID: 6448674
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS
MAGNETIC REFRIGERATORS
BELT CONVEYORS
CRYOGENIC FLUIDS
FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS
FLUID FLOW
FLUID MECHANICS
HEAT TRANSFER
IRON
NITROGEN
PARAMAGNETISM
REFRIGERATION
TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS
VERY LOW TEMPERATURE
CONVEYORS
COOLING
ELEMENTS
ENERGY TRANSFER
EQUIPMENT
FLUIDS
HAULAGE EQUIPMENT
MAGNETIC MATERIALS
MAGNETISM
MATERIALS
MATERIALS HANDLING EQUIPMENT
MECHANICS
METALS
NONMETALS
REFRIGERATORS
TRANSITION ELEMENTS
420201* - Engineering- Cryogenic Equipment & Devices