Cryocoolers 9, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997

Proceedings of the 9th International Conference held in Waterville Valley, New Hampshire, June 25-27, 1996

Government Cryocooler Development Programs.- An Overview of Air Force Phillips Laboratory Cryocooler Programs.- A Case Study of a Successful Cryogenic Cooler Development Program.- The DOD Family of Linear Drive Coolers for Weapon Systems.- And What about Cryogenic Refrigeration?.- Space Stirling Cryocooler Developments.- Prototype Spacecraft Cryocooler Progress.- Hughes Aircraft Company SSC I & II Performance Mapping Results.- Development and Demonstration of the Creare 65 K Standard Spacecraft Cryocooler.- Test Results for the Ball Single-Stage Advanced Flight Prototype Cryocooler.- The Batch Manufacture of Stirling-Cycle Coolers for Space Applications Including Test, Qualification, and Integration Issues.- System Test Performance for the Ball Two-Stage Stirling-Cycle Cryocooler.- Improvements to the Cooling Power of a Space Qualified Two-Stage Stirling Cycle Cooler.- Design and Development of a 20 K Stirling-Cycle Cooler for FIRST.- Tactical/Commercial Stirling Cryocoolers.- Path to Low Cost and High Reliability Stirling Coolers.- Miniature Long Life Tactical Stirling Cryocoolers.- Experimental and Predicted Performance of the BEI Mini-Linear Cooler.- Space Qualification Test Plan Development, Implementation, and Results for the STRV-2 1.0-watt Tactical Cryocooler.- Stirling Cryocooler Research and Theory.- Reduction of Surface Heat Pumping Effect in Split-Stirling Cryocoolers.- A Stirling Cycle Analysis with Gas-Wall Heat Transfer in Compressor and Expander.- Cyclic Simulation of Stirling Cryogenerator with Two-Component Two-Phase Fluid.- Cryocooler Transient Performance Modeling.- Pulse-tube Cryocooler Developments.- New Mid-Size High Efficiency Pulse Tube Coolers.- Performance Characterization of the TRW 3503 and 6020 Pulse Tube Coolers.- Performance of the AIRS Pulse Tube Engineering Model Cryocooler.- Advanced Pulse Tube Cold Head Development.- 50-80 K Pulse Tube Cryocooler Development.- 80 K Miniature Pulse Tube Refrigerator Performance.- Development of a Low-Cost Cryocooler for HTS Applications.- An Experimental Investigation of the Pulse Tube Refrigerator.- Pulse Tube Refrigerator and Nitrogen liquefier with Active Buffer System.- Two-Stage Double-Inlet Pulse Tube Refrigerator down to 10 K.- Pulse Tube Cryocooler Configuration Investigations.- Early Pulse Tube Refrigerator Developments.- Phase Shift Effect of the Long Neck Tube for the Pulse Tube Refrigerator.- Experimental Study on the Pulse Tube Refrigerator with Two Relief Valves.- Experiments on the Effects of Pulse Tube Geometry on PTR Performance.- An Experimental Investigation of a Single-Stage Two-Pulse-Tube Refrigerator.- UCLA Pulse Tube Investigations.- Reversible Cycle Piston Pulse Tube Cryocooler.- Isothermal Model of a Warm Expander Pulse Tube.- Pulse-tube Modeling and Diagnostic Measurements.- A Simple Modeling Program for Orifice Pulse Tube Coolers.- A One-Dimensional Model of High-Frequency Pulse Tube Heat and Mass Flows.- Higher Order Pulse Tube Modeling.- Visualization Study of Velocity Profiles and Displacements of Working Gas Inside a Pulse Tube Refrigerator.- Investigation of Radial Temperature and Velocity Profiles in Oscillating Flows Inside a Pulse Tube Refrigerator.- An Experimental Investigation of How the Heat Pumping Mechanism in a Pulse Tube Changes with Frequency.- DC Gas Flows in Stirling and Pulse Tube Cryocoolers.- Convective Heat Losses in Pulse Tube Coolers: Effect of Pulse Tube Inclination.- Generic Stirling/PT Components Development.- Advanced Compressor for Long-Life Cryocoolers.- Flexure Bearing Analysis Procedures and Design Charts.- Investigation of Gas Effects on Cryocooler Resonance Characteristics.- Thermodynamic Comparison between the Orifice Pulse Tube and the Stirling Refrigerator.- Application of the Periodic Temperature Variation Technique to the Measurement of Heat Transfer Coefficients in High-NTU Matrices.- 3-D Flow Model for Cryocooler Regenerators.- Measurement of Heat Conduction through Stacked Screens.- Brayton Cryocooler Developments.- A Single Stage Reverse Brayton Cryocooler: Performance and Endurance Tests on the Engineering Model.- Progress on the Development of Miniature Turbomachines for Low-Capacity Reverse-Brayton Cryocoolers.- Experimental Study of the Isentropic Efficiency of the Pulse Tube Expansion Process.- J-T and Throttle-cycle Cryocooler Developments.- Joule-Thomson Cryocooler Development at Ball Aerospace.- Low Cost Cryocoolers for Cryoelectronics.- A Throttle Cycle Cryocooler Operating with Mixed Gas Refrigerants in 70 K to 120 K Temperature Range.- 80 K Throttle-Cycle Refrigerator Cost Reduction.- Experimental Investigation of an Efficient Closed-Cycle Mixed-Refrigerant J-T Cooler.- 65 K Two-Stage MR/O2 Throttle Cycle Refrigerator.- Closed-Cycle Neon Refrigerator for High-Temperature Superconducting Magnets.- Design and Testing of a Combined Stirling-Cycle Joule-Thomson Cryocooler System.- Sorption Cryocooler Developments.- Flight Demonstration of a 10 K Sorption Cryocooler.- Continuous and Periodic Sorption Cryocoolers for 10 K and below.- Preliminary Test Results for a 25 K Sorption Cryocooler Designed for the UCSB Long Duration Balloon Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation Experiment.- Experiments on a Charcoal/Nitrogen Sorption Compressor and Model Considerations.- G-M Refrigerators and Low-Temperature Regenerators.- Low Cost Gifford-McMahon Cryocooler Development Program.- Development of a 2 W Class 4 K Gifford-McMahon Cycle Cryocooler.- Geometric Scaling of a 4.2 K Gifford-McMahon Refrigerator.- The Effect of Pressure Loss at Intake/Exhaust Valve on Performance of a 4 K G-M Cryocooler.- The Valve Timing Effect on Cooling Power of 4 K Gifford-McMahon Cryocooler.- A Neodymium Plate Regenerator for Low Temperature Gifford- McMahon Cycle Refrigerators.- Influence of Alloying on the Behavior and Properties of Er3Ni.- Processing and Testing of the Low-Temperature Stage Er6Ni2Sn Cryogenic Regenerator Alloy.- Promising Refrigerants for the 4.2 — 20 K Region.- Advanced Refrigeration Cycles and Developments.- The Los Alamos Solid-State Optical Refrigerator.- Microcooling: Study on the Application of Micromechanical Techniques.- Cryocooler Vibration Characterization and Control.- Investigation into Vibration Issues of Sunpower M77 Cryocoolers.- Summary and Results of Hughes Improved Standard Spacecraft Cryocooler Vibration Suppression Experiment.- MOPITT Stirling Cycle Cooler Vibration Performance Results.- Summary and Results of a Space-Based Active Cryocooler Vibration Suppression Experiment.- Vibration Reduction in a Set-Up of Two Split Type Stirling Cryocoolers.- Throttle Cycle Cooler Vibration Characterization.- Cryocooler Integration and Test Technologies.- Development of a 60 K Thermal Storage Unit.- Temperature Stabilization on Cold Stage of 4 K G-M Cryocooler.- Reduction of Parasitic Heat Loads to Cryogenically Cooled Components.- Cryocooler Heat Interceptor Test for the SMTS Program.- Feasibility Demonstration of a Thermal Switch for Dual Temperature IR Focal Plane Cooling.- An Advanced Solderless Flexible Thermal Link.- Development and Testing of a Demountable Cryocooler Thermal Interface.- Thermal Conductance of Multilam Make and Break Cryocooler Thermal Interface.- Heat Pipes for Enhanced Cooldown of Cryogenic Systems.- Control Electronics Development for Space-Based Cryocoolers.- Cooler Test Data Acquisition and Environmental Control Software.- Cryogenic Systems Integration Model (CSIM).- Cryocooler Applications Experience.- Spacecraft Cryocooler System Integration Trades and Optimization.- AIRS Cryocooler System Design and Development.- AIRS Puise Tube Cryocooler System.- The Qualification and Use of Miniature Tactical Cryocoolers for Space Applications.- The Design, Development and Qualification of the SCIAMACHY Radiant Cooler.- Integration of HTS SQUIDs with Portable Cooling Devices for the Detection of Materials Defects in Non-Destructive Evaluation.- Stirling Cooler Magnetic Interference Measured by a High-Tc SQUID Mounted on the Cold Tip.- Cryocooler Integration with High Temperature Superconducting Motors.- Integration of a Photoconductive Detector with a 4 K Cryocooler.- Indexes.- Proceedings Index.- Author Index.