- Patent Title: Small-scale hydrogen liquefaction system equipped with cryocooler
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Application No.: US15404114Application Date: 2017-01-11
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Publication No.: US10309718B2Publication Date: 2019-06-04
- Inventor: Seo Young Kim
- Applicant: Hylium Industries, Inc.
- Applicant Address: KR
- Assignee: HYLIUM INDUSTRIES, INC.
- Current Assignee: HYLIUM INDUSTRIES, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: KR
- Agency: Mendolsohn Dunleavy, P.C.
- Priority: KR10-2016-0007292 20160120; KR10-2016-0034870 20160323
- Main IPC: F25J1/02
- IPC: F25J1/02 ; F25J1/00 ; F25J5/00

Abstract:
Disclosed is a small-scale hydrogen liquefaction system using cryocoolers. The system includes: a pre-cooling heat exchanger for pre-cooling gaseous hydrogen using liquid nitrogen; a first cryocooler that primarily cools the gaseous hydrogen, pre-cooled by the pre-cooling heat exchanger; a heat exchanger attached to a cold head of the first-cryocooler; an n-th cryocooler (wherein n is a natural number equal to or greater than two) that is connected in series with the first cryocooler and cools the gaseous hydrogen, primarily cooled by the first cryocooler, to a liquefaction temperature of 20.3 K; a condensation plate arranged to be in contact with the n-th cryocooler to liquefy the gaseous hydrogen, cooled to the temperature of 20.3 K by the n-th cryocooler; and a low-temperature chamber providing an accommodation space to accommodate the pre-cooling heat exchanger, the first cryocooler, and the n-th cryocooler.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170205140A1 Small-Scale Hydrogen Liquefaction System Equipped with Cryocooler Public/Granted day:2017-07-20
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