Vibration-free Cooler for the METIS Instrument Using Sorption Compressors
| Autor: | H.J.M. ter Brake, Herman J. Holland, Tim Mulder, B. Benthem, C.H. Vermeer, Yingzhe Wu |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Energy, Materials and Systems, Faculty of Science and Technology |
| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
| Předmět: |
Materials science
business.industry Detector chemistry.chemical_element Mechanical engineering Sorption Physics and Astronomy(all) E-ELT 7. Clean energy Design for manufacturability Vibration Neon Joule-Thomson cooler Optics METIS instrument chemistry sorption compressor Thermal vibration-free IR-97251 business Spectrograph Gas compressor METIS-311820 |
| Zdroj: | Physics procedia, 67, 411-416. Elsevier |
| ISSN: | 1875-3892 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.phpro.2015.06.050 |
| Popis: | METIS is the “Mid-infrared ELT Imager and Spectrograph” for the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) that will cover the thermal/mid-infrared wavelength range from 3-14 micron. Starting from a pumped nitrogen line at 70K, it requires cryogenic cooling of detectors and optics at 40K (1.4W), 25K (1.1W), and 8K (0.4W). A vibration-free cooling technology for this instrument based on sorption coolers is under development at the University of Twente in collaboration with Dutch Space. We propose a sorption-based cooler with three cascaded Joule-Thomson coolers of which the sorption compressors are all heat sunk at the 70K platform. A helium-operated cooler is used to obtain the 8K level with a cooling power of 0.4W. Here, three pre-cooling stages are used at 40K, 25K and 15K. The latter two levels are provided by a hydrogen-based cooler, whereas the 40K level is realized by a neon-based sorption cooler. Based on our space-cooler heritage, our preliminary design used sorption compressors equipped with gas-gap heat switches. These have maximum efficiency, but the gas-gap switches add significantly to the complexity of the system. Since in METIS relatively high cooling powers are required, and thus a high number of compressor cells, manufacturability is an important issue. We, therefore, developed an alternative cylindrical compressor design that uses short-pulse heating establishing a thermal wave in radial direction. This allows to omit the gas-gap heat switch. The paper discusses the adapted cell design and two METIS cooler demonstrator setups that are currently under construction. |
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