Are compensators and/or accumulators, high or low pressure, used in cryogenics? Are they used in space?
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Peter Shirron
August 27, 2012
I don’t know that accumulators, in the classic sense, are used in cryogenic systems. But there are a lot of uses for them in the same general sense, for example for damping out the vibration of a pulse tube or GM cooler to a cryostat that is due to the pressure wave produced by the compressor. The pressure lines between the cold head and compressor are therefore long bellows lines. Bellows are also used a lot to provide mechanical compliance between parts that need to be hermetically sealed, but it seems your company is interested in a particular application.
1 Comment
Peter Shirron
August 27, 2012I don’t know that accumulators, in the classic sense, are used in cryogenic systems. But there are a lot of uses for them in the same general sense, for example for damping out the vibration of a pulse tube or GM cooler to a cryostat that is due to the pressure wave produced by the compressor. The pressure lines between the cold head and compressor are therefore long bellows lines. Bellows are also used a lot to provide mechanical compliance between parts that need to be hermetically sealed, but it seems your company is interested in a particular application.