Оптимізація регулювання температури у рідинно-проточних кріостатах

З метою оптимiзацiї регулювання температури у крiосистемах на основi рiдинно-проточних крiостатiв враховано теплофiзичнi властивостi матерiалу, iз якого виготовлено елементи конструкцiї робочої камери крiостата. На прикладi результатiв експериментального використання розробленого пристрою для управл...

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description З метою оптимiзацiї регулювання температури у крiосистемах на основi рiдинно-проточних крiостатiв враховано теплофiзичнi властивостi матерiалу, iз якого виготовлено елементи конструкцiї робочої камери крiостата. На прикладi результатiв експериментального використання розробленого пристрою для управлiння крiостатом в температурному дiапазонi 4,2–350 К показано, що застосування цього методу пiдвищує точнiсть та економiчнiсть крiосистем. В целях оптимизации регулирования температуры в криосистемах на основе жидкостно-проточных криостатов, учтены теплофизические свойства материала, из которого изготовлены элементы конструкции рабочей камеры криостата. На примере результатов экспериментального использования разработанного устройства для управления криостатом в температурном диапазоне 4,2–350 К показано, что применение этого метода позволяет повысить точность и экономичность криосистем. In order to optimize the temperature control in cryosystems based on liquid flow cryostats, the thermal properties of the substance, of which the structural elements of the work chamber of cryostat are made, have been taken into account. The results of the experimental cryostat control in the temperature range 4.2–350 K are used to demonstrate that the developed device enhances the accuracy and the efficiency of cryosystems.
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fulltext PHYSICS EXPERIMENT TECHNIQUES 350 ISSN 2071-0194. Ukr. J. Phys. 2010. Vol. 55, No. 3 OPTIMIZATION OF TEMPERATURE CONTROL IN LIQUID FLOW CRYOSTATS I.P. ZHARKOV, A.N. IVASHCHENKO, S.V. POGREBNJAK, V.V. SAFRONOV Institute of Physics, Nat. Acad. of Sci. of Ukraine (46, Nauky Ave., Kyiv 03680, Ukraine; e-mail: zharkov@ iop. kiev. ua ) PACS 07.20.Mc c©2010 In order to optimize the temperature control in cryosystems based on liquid flow cryostats, the thermal properties of the substance, of which the structural elements of the work chamber of cryostat are made, have been taken into account. The results of the ex- perimental cryostat control in the temperature range 4.2–350 K are used to demonstrate that the developed device enhances the accuracy and the efficiency of cryosystems. 1. Introduction In modern cryosystems, the temperature of a specimen under investigation, which is located in the work cham- ber of a cryostat together with a temperature sensor, is controlled by maintaining the “cold–heat” balance in it [1]. There are a number of methods for thermostatting which include, in particular, the radiant heat exchange with the environment, heat exchange with a cooled sur- face through a mechanical contact, heat-exchange gas, and immediate heat transfer to a refrigerant. Conse- quently, there are several methods of temperature con- trol and stabilization in cryostats which affect their de- sign. Namely, these are: 1. The Swenson method [2], in which the temperature is varied in a wide range by changing the mass rate of a refrigerant flow that moves in the work chamber. For the temperature control of an investigated object to be more exact, an electric heater which is located either on the external wall of the chamber or immediately in the refrigerant vapor flow is used. 2. The method of forced blow-off of an object with a gas flow characterized by a given temperature. The method was first developed by Knox and Cathbert [3] and then elaborated by the authors [4]. Here, the tem- perature of a cooled object changes owing to a variation of the refrigerant temperature rather than the refriger- ant mass flow. There are also cryostats of other types, in which the object to study is located immediately in the refrigerant or in vacuum on a coldfinger that has a direct contact with the refrigerant. Since the wide-range temperature control is not effective in such cryostats, they are not considered below. It is worth noting that, when a cryostat construction is being designed, the thermal characteristics of materi- als the cryostat is to be made of are taken into account. For instance, the most widespread material for manufac- turing the work chamber of a cryostat is copper, because its heat conductivity is among the highest in compari- son with those for other metals. In flow systems with the temperature control carried out by the Knox–Cathbert method (leading western firms are mainly oriented to fabricate temperature-control systems of this type), due to the turbulence of the gas flow and the temperature gradient at heating, the achieved temperature stability amounts to ±0.1 K. Such cryosystems reveal a large refrigerant consumption, as well as a temperature over- control after the given value has been attained, which is also a considerable drawback in the case where a preci- sion cryostatting is needed, in particular, when studying the phase transitions in substances. Cryostats belonging to the Unified Thermoregulated Cryogenic Systems (UTRECS) are based on the Swenson method developed further by the authors [5–8]. They include cryostats of the liquid flow type, the design of which allows the laminar flow of a refrigerant through the temperature-controlled chamber to be obtained. A heat exchanger and a heater are placed on the exter- nal side of the chamber, which provides the temperature equalizing between refrigerant vapors and the chamber. OPTIMIZATION OF TEMPERATURE CONTROL In the chamber, there is a special frame with a speci- men and a temperature sensor. In this geometry, the refrigerant flows through the cryostat work chamber ow- ing to an excess pressure which is created above the liq- uid mirror in the tank with a liquid refrigerant. The “cold–heat” balance, which is needed for maintaining a given temperature, is provided making use of a temper- ature regulator, by vanishing a mismatch between the temperature sensor signal, which corresponds to an ac- tual temperature of the studied specimen, and the given temperature. However, since the thermal properties of substances the cryostat work chamber is made of depend on the temperature, the wide-range temperature control is accompanied by the temperature overcontrol and tem- perature oscillations. The control will be more effective, if the amount of heat that is supplied into the thermo- stat chamber is put in agreement with the temperature dependence of the heat capacity of a work chamber ma- terial. For a number of materials – including copper which is widely applied for the fabrication of heat ex- changing chambers – their temperature dependences of heat capacity are known [9–12]. For today, we do not know such cryosystem constructions, where this depen- dence is taken into account. This work aimed at developing a new approach in cryostatting which would make allowance for the tem- perature dependence of the heat capacity of a material the work chamber of the cryostat is made of, in order to increase the accuracy of the temperature fixation, avoid the temperature overcontrol, and increase the cryostat efficiency. 2. Theoretical Analysis The constructional elements of a work chamber of the UTRECS cryostat system are fabricated of copper. The temperature dependence of its heat capacity CCu is ex- hibited in Fig. 1 [6]. It is known [6] that CCu is pro- portional to the squared temperature at low tempera- tures (20 − 70 K) and weakly depends on it at high temperatures (above 200 K). The temperature point Tlim = 200 K can be selected as a threshold value which separates the ranges with drastically different thermal properties of copper. In the stationary regime and when the refrigerant flow is laminar, an equilibrium state is attained in the ther- mostatting chamber of a cryostat. In this case, the amount of heat brought into the chamber, Qc, is equal to the difference between the heats that is obtained due Fig. 1. Temperature dependence of the heat capacity of copper to heating, Qh, and extracted at cooling, Qfr, Qc = Qh −Qfr. (1) The fulfillment of Eq. (1) is provided by controlling the parameters of executive devices which include the volt- age across the heater Uh and the magnitude of refriger- ant vapor flow, the latter being governed by the cooling control voltage Ufr. If the chamber temperature Tc varies by dTc within the time interval dt, the thermal balance equation (1) can be rewritten as CCumc dTc dt = Ph − Pfr, (2) where mc is the work chamber mass, and Ph and Pfr are the heating and cooling powers, respectively. 3. Experimental Technique Since the power supplied to the chamber is proportional to the squared heating voltage Uh, it is necessary to de- sign such a working mechanism for executive devices that the control heating voltage should depend linearly on the chamber temperature, in order to simulate the square- law temperature dependence of the heat capacity. Let us introduce the control parameter λ which approximately corresponds to the temperature dependence of the cham- ber material heat capacity: λ = Tc Tlim at Tc ≤ 200 K, and λ = 1 at Tc > 200 K. Then, the maximal voltage across ISSN 2071-0194. Ukr. J. Phys. 2010. Vol. 55, No. 3 351 I.P. ZHARKOV, A.N. IVASHCHENKO, S.V. POGREBNJAK et al. Fig. 2. Block diagram of the control device a heater Uhmax = λUref , where Uref is the reference volt- age for a heater, and the maximal capacity produced by it is Ph max = U2 h max Rh = λ2U 2 ref Rh , (3) where Rh is the heater resistance. To provide the maximal heat exchange between re- frigerant vapors and the work chamber, the former pass through a capillary–heat exchanger system which is a component of the chamber. As a result, the gas gets a temperature that is practically equal to that of the cham- ber, and the cooling power can be expressed in terms of the heat which is extracted by the gas blown through the chamber within a time unit. Taking the Clapeyron– Mendeleev equation into account at Tc > T0, where T0 is the initial gas temperature (T0 = 4.2 K for helium), we obtain Pfr = CHeµp R dV dt , (4) where p, CHe, and µ are, respectively, the pressure, heat capacity, and molar mass of the refrigerant; dV dt is the rate of refrigerant vapor blowing through the cryostat chimney, and R is the gas constant. To provide the relation Pfr ∼ T 2 c , we must realize the dependence dV dt ∼ T 2 c . The quadratic dependence of the cryostat column-in blowing rate is ensured by the square- law dependence of the relative pulse duration for pulses, which are used to control the gas flow by means of an electrodynamic valve, on the voltage Ufr which is used to control a pulse-width modulator. If the maximal cooling voltage Ufr max = λUref , then the maximal cooling pulse ratio is determined from the expression τ τ0 = U2 fr U2 ref = λ2, (5) where τ and τ0 are the duration and the repetition period of cooling pulses, respectively. At the pulse ratio (5), the rate of column-in blowing with refrigerant vapors is dV dt = dV0 dt τ τ0 = dV0 dt λ2, (6) where dV0 dt is the maximal rate of column-in blowing at a completely open valve. 4. Experimental Part To implement the thermostatting by means of the method described above, we developed a device for the temperature control, the block diagram of which is shown in Fig. 2. A required temperature Tset can be set by means of either a control keyboard or an external computer. The microprocessor provides a control over the process of temperature setting in the chamber, Tc, at the level Tset. The duration of every program cycle is Δt = 100 ms, and it includes the following operations which are executed in sequence: – an analog-to-digital converter is used to measure the voltage across the temperature sensor, U (Tci ) (the sub- script i corresponds to the measurement time moment ti); 352 ISSN 2071-0194. Ukr. J. Phys. 2010. Vol. 55, No. 3 OPTIMIZATION OF TEMPERATURE CONTROL Fig. 3. Relative heating and cooling powers and their sum – the measured voltage U (Tci) is recalculated into the actual temperature code, Tci , in accordance with the data obtained at the temperature sensor calibration and stored in the nonvolatile memory of the processor; – the difference ΔTi = Tset−Tci between the codes of the setted, Tset, and actual, Tc, temperatures is calculated; – the rate of actual temperature change is calculated, dTi dt ≈ ΔTi−1−ΔTi Δt , where the subscript i− 1 corresponds to the previous measurement; – the values obtained for ΔTi and dTi dt are used to cal- culate the control code ni which is used to form the Uh- and Ufr-signals. The control code is calculated by the expression ni = ni−1 +K1ΔTi +K2 dTi dt , (7) where K1 and K2 are the weight coefficients for the pro- portional and differential components, respectively; and ni−1 is the previous value of control code at the moment ti−1. To form the signal Uh, the code of λni is written into the registers of a digital-to-analog converter (DAC). In this case, the heating voltage is Uh = Urefλ ni n0 , (8) where n0 is the maximal value of control code which is defined by the register capacity of DAC. Then, the Fig. 4. Time diagrams for the final stage of reaching the the preset value of temperature in the old (1 ) and new (2 ) cryostat systems. The initial temperature of the chamber is 300 K, the final one is 5 K heating power is Ph = λ2 ( Uref ni n0 )2 Rh . (9) To form Ufr, the code of λ (n0 − ni) is written into the DAC registers. Then, we have Ufr = Urefλ n0 − ni n0 . (10) After the squaring by means of an amplifier-multiplier, the signal Ufr is applied to a pulse-width modulator, and the cooling power is Pfr = CHeµp RΔt λ2 ( Uref n0 − ni n0 )2 . (11) 5. Results and Their Discussion The described approach to thermostatting was put into the basis of a new device developed by us for the temper- ature control in the range from 4.2 to 350 K. In Fig. 3, the dependences of the relative heating and cooling pow- ers, as well as their sum, on the relative value of control ISSN 2071-0194. Ukr. J. Phys. 2010. Vol. 55, No. 3 353 I.P. ZHARKOV, A.N. IVASHCHENKO, S.V. POGREBNJAK et al. Fig. 5. Temperature dependences of the overcontrol for the old (1 ) and new (2 ) cryostat systems Fig. 6. Temperature dependences of the stability for the old (1 ) and new (2 ) cryostat systems code are depicted. One can see that, at the quadratic character of control influences, the sum of the relative heating and cooling powers is linear in the relative value of control code. In Fig. 4, the typical experimental plots showing how the temperature approaches a given value are shown: when a temperature control device is used, but the ther- mal properties of a substance the chamber was fabricated of are not taken into consideration, and when the new approach was applied. It is evident that the new control device allows the temperature to reach a preset value Fig. 7. Temperature dependences of the refrigerant consumption for the old (1 ) and new (2 ) cryostat systems without overcontrol and faster in comparison with the old method. For the experimental testing of the efficiency of the proposed improvements for cryostat systems, we com- pared the metrological (the overcontrol level and the sta- bility) and economic (the refrigerant consumption) pa- rameters of the new and old cryostat systems. In so doing, the overcontrol level was defined as the maximal deviation of the temperature Tc from Tset after the time moment teq, when they became equal. The stability was defined as the maximal deviation of Tc from Tset within 30 min after the time teq + 2 min. The temperature de- pendences of the overcontrol, stability of the established temperature, and refrigerant consumption are shown in Figs. 5 to 7, in that order. It follows from Fig. 5 that the restrictions of the max- imal heater power and the cooling level leads to a sub- stantial reduction of the overcontrol in the whole tem- perature range under consideration. The minimal level of the overcontrol (of 0.02 K) is observed in the range 20–200 K which is characterized by a fast change of the temperature dependence of the copper heat capacity (see Fig. 1). From Fig. 6, it follows that the consideration of the heat capacity of a thermostatting chamber material al- lowed us to make the stability of established tempera- tures as much as 1.5 to 2 times higher. In the examined temperature interval, the largest instability was observed at a temperature of 10 K and did not exceed 0.04 K. 354 ISSN 2071-0194. Ukr. J. Phys. 2010. Vol. 55, No. 3 OPTIMIZATION OF TEMPERATURE CONTROL Figure 7 demonstrates that the refrigerant consump- tion in the new cryosystem decreased by 15% on the average in comparison with the old one. 6. Conclusion Hence, taking the thermal properties of the substance of a work chamber of cryostatting systems into account has allowed us to substantially increase their precision characteristics, avoid the overcontrol, and reduce the re- frigerant consumption, which opens new opportunities for carrying out a precision physical experiment. As a result of the practical use of the control device devel- oped by us, the cryosystem tuning became simpler, and its reliability is enhanced. 1. A.I. Belyaeva, V.I. Silaev, and Yu.E. Stetsenko, Flow- ing Cryostats for Laboratory Researches (Kyiv, Naukova Dumka, 1987) (in Russian). 2. C.A. 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Phys. 11, 16 (1943). 12. W.S. Corak, M.P. Garfunkel, C.B. Satterthwaite, and A. Wexler, Phys. Rev. 98, 1699 (1955). Received 14.04.09. Translated from Ukrainian by O.I. Voitenko ОПТИМIЗАЦIЯ РЕГУЛЮВАННЯ ТЕМПЕРАТУРИ У РIДИННО-ПРОТОЧНИХ КРIОСТАТАХ I.П. Жарков, О.М. Iващенко, С.В. Погребняк, В.В. Сафронов Р е з ю м е З метою оптимiзацiї регулювання температури у крiосистемах на основi рiдинно-проточних крiостатiв враховано теплофiзи- чнi властивостi матерiалу, iз якого виготовлено елементи кон- струкцiї робочої камери крiостата. На прикладi результатiв експериментального використання розробленого пристрою для управлiння крiостатом в температурному дiапазонi 4,2–350 К показано, що застосування цього методу пiдвищує точнiсть та економiчнiсть крiосистем. ISSN 2071-0194. Ukr. J. Phys. 2010. Vol. 55, No. 3 355
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З метою оптимiзацiї регулювання температури у крiосистемах на основi рiдинно-проточних крiостатiв враховано теплофiзичнi властивостi матерiалу, iз якого виготовлено елементи конструкцiї робочої камери крiостата. На прикладi результатiв експериментального використання розробленого пристрою для управлiння крiостатом в температурному дiапазонi 4,2–350 К показано, що застосування цього методу пiдвищує точнiсть та економiчнiсть крiосистем.
В целях оптимизации регулирования температуры в криосистемах на основе жидкостно-проточных криостатов, учтены теплофизические свойства материала, из которого изготовлены элементы конструкции рабочей камеры криостата. На примере результатов экспериментального использования разработанного устройства для управления криостатом в температурном диапазоне 4,2–350 К показано, что применение этого метода позволяет повысить точность и экономичность криосистем.
In order to optimize the temperature control in cryosystems based on liquid flow cryostats, the thermal properties of the substance, of which the structural elements of the work chamber of cryostat are made, have been taken into account. The results of the experimental cryostat control in the temperature range 4.2–350 K are used to demonstrate that the developed device enhances the accuracy and the efficiency of cryosystems.
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Сафронов, В.В.
Методика фізичного експерименту
title Оптимізація регулювання температури у рідинно-проточних кріостатах
title_alt Оптимизация регулирования температуры в жидкостно-проточных криостатах
Optimization of Temperature Control in Liquid Flow Cryostats
title_full Оптимізація регулювання температури у рідинно-проточних кріостатах
title_fullStr Оптимізація регулювання температури у рідинно-проточних кріостатах
title_full_unstemmed Оптимізація регулювання температури у рідинно-проточних кріостатах
title_short Оптимізація регулювання температури у рідинно-проточних кріостатах
title_sort оптимізація регулювання температури у рідинно-проточних кріостатах
topic Методика фізичного експерименту
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