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Vibration-free Cooler for the METIS Instrument Using Sorption Compressors
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Wu, Yingzhe Mulder, Tim Vermeer, C. H. Holland, Herman J. Benthem, Bruin Brake, H. J. M. Ter |
| Copyright Year | 2015 |
| Abstract | 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 40 K (1.4 W), 25 K (1.1 W), and 8 K (0.4 W). 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 0.4 W. 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. |
| Starting Page | 411 |
| Ending Page | 416 |
| Page Count | 6 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.phpro.2015.06.050 |
| Volume Number | 67 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://indico.cern.ch/event/244641/contributions/1563246/attachments/418251/580912/O2-3_ICEC2014_Vibration-free_cooler_for_the_METIS_instrument_using_sorption_compressors_ver2.1_07072013.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.phpro.2015.06.050 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
