Abstract: A refrigeration system having a primary receiver, a secondary receiver, a first gas bypass valve, and second gas bypass valve, a feed control valve, and a controller. The primary receiver has a primary receiver operating pressure and is configured to collect a refrigerant circulated by the refrigeration system. The secondary receiver includes a liquid refrigerant inlet fluidly coupled to a primary receiver liquid refrigerant outlet. The feed control valve is coupled between the primary receiver liquid outlet and the secondary receiver liquid refrigerant inlet. The controller operates the feed control valve to control a flow of a liquid refrigerant from the primary receiver to the secondary receiver.

Abstract: A greenhouse gas treatment apparatus for stagewise condensation and collection of atmospheric gases including water vapor, nitrous oxide, and carbon dioxide. The apparatus includes a primary cooling chamber and an independent secondary cooling chamber, each supplied with low-temperature air via dedicated supply pipes, with the secondary chamber maintained at a lower temperature than the primary chamber. A condensation pipe passes sequentially through the primary and secondary cooling chambers. As suctioned air travels through the condensation pipe, water vapor is condensed and collected in the primary cooling chamber. Remaining greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, are subsequently condensed and collected in the secondary cooling chamber for storage in a separate tank.

Abstract: An air conditioner is provided that includes an evaporator, an expansion valve, a compressor, and an evaporative condenser through which refrigerant circulates. The air conditioner further includes an outdoor unit in which the evaporative condenser is disposed; an indoor unit in which the evaporator is disposed; and a control unit connected to the indoor unit and the outdoor unit; wherein the evaporative condenser includes a cooling flow path through which a refrigerant passes and a condenser injection water module providing water to the cooling flow path, the outdoor unit includes a first control valve for controlling water supplied to the condenser injection water module, and the control unit is connected to the first control valve and the evaporative condenser, and changes the amount of water supplied through the first control valve according to operating conditions.

Abstract: A system and method for liquefying a hydrogen gas feed stream uses a high-pressure hydrogen stream from a storage source to provide refrigeration to the system. After providing refrigeration to the system, the hydrogen from the high-pressure storage source is at a pressure not lower than the pressure of a cold box feed stream of the system, where the cold box feed stream includes the hydrogen gas feed stream and at least one recycle stream, and is not recycled back through the system but instead exits the system.

Abstract: An air conditioner is provided that may include a case having a supply flow path formed therein and through which outside air flows into an interior space, a first heat exchanger disposed on the supply flow path, in which refrigerant flows, and that exchanges heat between the air and the refrigerant, a second heat exchanger disposed downstream of the second heat exchanger on the supply flow path, in which refrigerant selectively flows, and that exchanges heat between the air and the refrigerant, and a refrigerant distributer configured to send the refrigerant to the first heat exchanger or the second heat exchanger.

Abstract: A refrigerator according to the present embodiment includes: a cabinet provided with a storage compartment; a door configured to open and close the storage compartment; and an ice maker configured to receive cold air for cooling the storage compartment so as to make ice, wherein the ice maker includes an ice tray comprising a plurality of ice-making cells configured to make ice, and the plurality of ice-making cells are arranged in a plurality of columns, each column comprising two or more ice-making cells, and bottom surfaces of the ice-making cells have different heights for each column.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices may include a cooled storage system with a case having an outer bucket with a first bottom wall and a first sidewall. The outer bucket may include a flange protruding from the first sidewall. An inner bucket may be disposed at least partially within the outer bucket and may include a second bottom wall and a second sidewall defining a storage compartment in the case. A coil may be at least partially disposed in the volume between the inner bucket and the outer bucket with a phase-change material disposed about the coil. An electronic control system may actively and passively cool the storage compartment resulting in extremely efficient and precise temperature control.

Abstract: Disclosed is a cryogenic liquid storage apparatus including a storage container configured to accommodate a cryogenic liquid, a housing member provided in the storage container and configured to define a vacuum space spatially separated from an internal space of the storage container, and a temperature sensor provided in the vacuum space so as to be in contact with an inner surface of the housing member and sense a signal to detect a liquid level of the cryogenic liquid.

Abstract: Dilution refrigeration device having a support member, a fluid-tight enclosure, an open end of the fluid-tight enclosure being mechanically connected to the support member via a flexible fluid-tight bellows, an upper end of a cryogenerator being secured to the support member, the device further having a fluid-tight sheath which is received in the enclosure, a lower end of the cryogenerator extending in the fluid-tight sheath inside the fluid-tight flexible bellows so that the enclosure and the fluid-tight sheath are at least partially mechanically insulated from the vibrations generated by the cryogenerator.

Abstract: A brazed plate heat exchanger (100) includes a plurality of first and second heat exchanger plates (110, 120) having different patterns of ridges and grooves providing contact points between neighbouring plates under formation of interplate flow channels for fluids to exchange heat, said interplate flow channels being in selective fluid communication with first, second, third and fourth large port openings (O1, O2, O3, O4) and first and second small port openings (SO1, SO2) forming a suction gas heat exchanger together with a dividing surface (DW). The ridges (R1, R2a, R2b) and grooves (G1, G2a, G2b) are formed such that the interplate flow channels between different plate pairs have different volumes. Disclosed is also a refrigeration system and method including such as heat exchanger.

Abstract: A heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and/or refrigeration (HVAC&R) system (10) includes a vapor compression system (14) having an evaporator (38), a condenser (34), and a compressor (32). The compressor (34) is configured to guide a refrigerant therethrough in a normal operating mode of the vapor compression system (14) and in a free cooling mode of the vapor compression system (14). The HVAC&R system (10) also includes a controller (40) configured to enable supply of power to a motor (50) of the compressor (34) in the normal operating mode and to suspend supply of power to the motor (50) of the compressor (34) in the free cooling mode.

Abstract: An air conditioner is disclosed. The air conditioner comprises: a compressor for compressing a refrigerant; a discharge pipe for guiding the refrigerant discharged from the compressor; an accumulator for storing the refrigerant flowing into the compressor from an outdoor heat exchanger or an indoor heat exchanger; a suction pipe for guiding the refrigerant discharged from the accumulator to the compressor; a subcooler disposed in a pipe between the outdoor heat exchanger and the indoor heat exchanger so as to secure a degree of subcooling of the refrigerant; an injection pipe for guiding a refrigerant superheated in the subcooler to the compressor; and a fixing member provided for fixing the discharge pipe, the suction pipe, and the injection pipe together.

Abstract: A device and a method for producing hydrogen and byproduct oxygen by using green electricity electrolyzed water are provided. The device comprises an oxygen purifying system, a heat exchange system, an air separation compression and expansion system, an air separation rectification system and a liquid oxygen storage system. The method comprises the following steps: first, purifying oxygen prepared by electrolyzing water by green electricity to remove impurities such as hydrogen, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide and water in the oxygen, then feeding the pure oxygen into the heat exchange system, performing heat exchange liquefaction to obtain liquid oxygen, coupling the liquid oxygen generated by rectification of the air separation rectification system, and obtaining pressurized oxygen through the heat exchange system and the air separation compression and expansion system.

Abstract: A cooling apparatus may include an electric water pump to pump coolant, a coolant channel in fluid communication with a cooling target and the electric water pump, and a thermoelectric device including a higher-temperature part and a lower-temperature part. The thermoelectric device may cool the coolant flowing into the coolant channel. The cooling apparatus may include a first heat sink disposed adjacent to the higher-temperature part, a second heat sink disposed adjacent to the coolant channel, and a cooling fan provided adjacent to the first heat sink. The cooling apparatus may include an air duct forming a first fluid line where air passes through only the first heat sink and is then discharged by operation of the cooling fan and forming a second fluid line where air passes through the first heat sink and the second heat sink and is then discharged by the operation of the cooling fan.

Abstract: A drain pan for a heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HVAC) system includes a trough defining a flow path and configured to direct condensate along the flow path, a shield disposed within the trough and having a body extending across the trough, and a notch formed in the shield and positioned in the flow path to enable flow of the condensate along the flow path and through the notch.

Abstract: Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems and methods for removing nitrogen during liquefaction of natural gas. In one implementation, a nitrogen rejection unit is used in an LNG facility to remove nitrogen from natural gas during an LNG liquefaction process. The nitrogen rejection unit contains at least two columns and at least one 3-stream condenser, 2-stream condenser or a two 2-stream condenser.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a cryocooler suitable for gas liquefaction applications, that comprises a coldhead with one or more refrigeration stages; further comprising: a refrigerator compressor for distributing compressed gas-phase cryogen inside the coldhead; a heat exchanging coil arranged at least partially around the external region of the coldhead; at least one extraction orifice communicating a gas circulation circuit inside the coldhead with the heat exchanging coil; acting said extraction orifice/s as pass-through port/s which allow the gas inside the coldhead to flow through the inside of the heat exchanger coil for exchanging heat with the exterior thereof, and wherein the heat exchanging coil is adapted to connect and redirect the gas to one return port connected to the gas circulation circuit. Another object of the invention relates to a cryogen-gas liquefaction system and a method for liquefaction of gases that comprises said system.

Abstract: An air conditioner includes an ejector that raises a pressure of refrigerant by using energy for refrigerant decompression and expansion. A switching mechanism switches between a refrigerant flow in a first operation and a refrigerant flow in a second operation. The air conditioner is configured such that in the first operation, refrigerant compressed by a compression mechanism radiates heat in a use-side heat exchanger and is decompressed and expanded by the ejector while refrigerant evaporated in a heat-source-side heat exchanger is raised in pressure by the ejector. The air conditioner is configured such that in the second operation, refrigerant compressed by the compression mechanism radiates heat in the heat-source-side heat exchanger and is decompressed and expanded by a first expansion valve before being evaporated in the use-side heat exchanger while refrigerant does not flow through the ejector.

Abstract: A cryocooler includes a shell, a compression unit, an expansion unit and a vibration damping unit, where a cavity is provided in the shell; the compression unit and the vibration damping unit are located in the cavity; the compression unit is connected to the shell; the expansion unit is partially located in the cavity and communicates with the compression unit; the vibration damping unit is sleeved on the compression unit and is partially located in the compression unit and is configured to reduce vibration of the compression unit. The cryocooler has a relatively compact structure, relatively small size and relatively small weight.

Abstract: A thermal management system including a heat exchanger and an expansion valve. The expansion valve is in fluid communication with the heat exchanger to control flow of a first heat exchange medium to the heat exchanger. The expansion valve includes a valve inlet, a first valve outlet in fluid communication with a first inlet and first passageways of the heat exchanger, and a second valve outlet in fluid communication with a second inlet and second passageways of the heat exchanger. An actuator of the expansion valve is movable from a closed position to a first open position and a second open position.