Abstract

Conventional Joule-Thomson refrigerators are made with finned, capillary tubing for the heat exchanger and a throttling valve for reducing the pressure [1]. A new kind of recuperative miniature heat-exchanger can be developed if a powder metallurgy technology is used. A high pressure capillary tube is sintered with metal powder. The grains of metal should be ball shaped or similar. In result of sintering process a good thermal contact between an outside tube surface and powder grains is achieved. The heat exchange surface is well developed and a porous sinter acts as a low pressure gas canal.

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