Active Magnetic Regenerative Cooling with Smaller Magnets
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Abstract
Magnetocaloric heat pumping near room temperature, a.k.a. magnetic cooling, relies on the active regenerator cycle to achieve functional temperature spans and realize economic and societal benefits promised by this emerging solid-state cooling technology. The cycle itself depends upon synchronizing oscillating flow of a heat transfer fluid through a solid porous active material matrix, or the refrigerant, with periods when the refrigerant is in the highest available (field-on) and in nearly zero (field-off) magnetic fields to accomplish heat transfer. With this in mind, we analyze varying flow and magnetic field wave forms and the timing between when the fluid is pumped and when the magnetic field is turned on and off. We demonstrate that the volume and the cost of permanent magnet generating the field changes can be cut nearly in half with little to no effect on the device temperature span and cooling power normalized by the refrigerant mass.
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This is a manuscript of an article published as Griffith, Lucas, Agata Czernuszewicz, Julie Slaughter, and Vitalij Pecharsky. "Active Magnetic Regenerative Cooling with Smaller Magnets." International Journal of Refrigeration 125 (2021): 44-51. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrefrig.2021.01.018. Posted with permission.