Methane liquefaction with an active magnetic regenerative refrigerator

Archipley, Corey C.; Barclay, John A.; Meinhardt, Kerry D.; Whyatt, Greg A.; Thomsen, Edwin C.; Holladay, Jamelyn D.; Cui, Jun; Anderson, Iver E.; Wolf, Samuel

doi:10.1016/j.cryogenics.2022.103588

Title: Methane liquefaction with an active magnetic regenerative refrigerator

Journal Article · Wed Oct 19 00:00:00 EDT 2022 · Cryogenics

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cryogenics.2022.103588· OSTI ID:1898319

Archipley, Corey C. ^[1]; Barclay, John A. ^[1]; Meinhardt, Kerry D. ^[1]; Whyatt, Greg A. ^[1]; Thomsen, Edwin C. ^[1]; Holladay, Jamelyn D. ^[1]; Cui, Jun ^[2]; Anderson, Iver E. ^[2]; Wolf, Samuel ^[2]

Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
Ames Lab., and Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA (United States)

This manuscript reports liquefaction of methane using an active magnetic regenerative refrigerator (AMRR). The AMRR used to cool from 285 K to 135 K has two identical regenerators fabricated with adjacent layers of four ferromagnetic refrigerants, each with sequentially lower Curie temperatures and lesser masses from hot to cold temperatures. The dual multilayer regenerators were assembled in opposition with a single cold region between them. For this set of experiments equal mass of helium gas was pumped through all layers of the regenerators during the two flow steps of the four-step AMR cycle. After successfully reaching 135 K, a compact condensing coil-fin tube heat exchanger (HEX) with a small storage vessel was mounted in the cold region of the dual regenerator assembly to be cooled during the hot-to-cold helium flow from alternatively demagnetized regenerators. The cold HEX was used to cool and liquefy a process stream of methane gas supplied at 295 K and different pressures in different runs. Further, by measuring time to liquefy a known volume of methane at three different pressures, cooling powers of the AMRR as a function of temperature were determined. The resultant data were compared to those predicted by the AMRR performance model. Conclusions from these experiments and suggestions for future work are presented.

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Research Organization:: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-76RL01830

OSTI ID:: 1898319

Report Number(s):: PNNL-SA-171952

Journal Information:: Cryogenics, Vol. 128; ISSN 0011-2275

Publisher:: ElsevierCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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