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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYDROGEN ENERGY
Volume 36, Issue 1, Pages 907-919Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2010.09.005
Keywords
Liquid hydrogen; Hydrogen liquefier; Large hydrogen liquefaction; Exergy efficiency
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- Department of Energy and Process Engineering at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology
- Shell Global International Company
- Research Council of Norway [164494]
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A small-scale laboratory hydrogen liquefaction plant that contains a new innovative MR (multi-component refrigerant) refrigeration system is proposed. A test rig was constructed to verify the simulation of this system. Initial experiments indicated that the rig were able to adequately cool normal hydrogen gas from 25 degrees C to -158 degrees C at a flow rate of 0.6 kg/h using a simplified five-component MR mixture refrigeration system. The power consumption of pre-cooling from the MR compressor was 1.76 kW h per kilogram of feed hydrogen gas. After two weeks, the lowest temperature was about -180 degrees C when a few additional grams of nitrogen gas were charged into the rig. The simulation and experimental data were in good agreement, and the primary conclusion was that pre-cooling hydrogen gas with the MR refrigeration system resulted in a lower energy consumption per kilogram of feed hydrogen gas compared to conventional refrigeration systems. (C) 2010 Professor T. Nejat Veziroglu. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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