Preliminary Design Conditions for a Thermally Actuated Refrigerator Based on the Vuilleumier Cycle

Vuilleumier 사이클로 작동되는 열구동 냉동기의 예비설계조건

This paper deals with preliminary design conditions for a thermally actuated Vuilleumier refrigerator/heat pump. The previously reported approximate adiabatic analysis which is based on the 8-volume model makes it possible to evaluate exchanged heats per cycle as well as cyclic pressure, temperature and mass variation of each working volume. Calculated results reveal not only there exists an optimum value for the phase angle and the swept volume ratio maximizing a specific thermal output, but also design parameters can be determined independently of each other. Under a given combination of operating temperature levels, the optimum conditions for refrigeration are different from those for heat pumping and the differences between two operating modes become larger with decreasing the dead volume ratio. Both the optimum phase angle and the optimum swept volume ratio are increased asymptotically toward 0.5 pi and 1.0 respectively, as the dead volume ratio approaches to unity. When a VM machine is used for cooling and heating simultaneously, the design parameters should be carefully determined to reach the best performance.

본 연구에서는 그 기초단계로서 작동유체의 실제상태변화에 근접하면서 간편 한 근사적인 단열해석법을 적용하여 VM사이클의 구체적인 예비설계조건을 제시하고자 한다.