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Conductive Heat Transfer

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Heat Transfer at Low Temperatures

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As indicated earlier, the use of cryogenic fluids has introduced several unique problems in heat transfer. The handling and transporting of such fluids at low temperatures in the presence of an atmospheric ambient have required the innovation and development of specialized insulating methods and design techniques. As a result, new insulation systems, consisting of many thin layers of highly reflecting radiation shields separated by thin spacers or insulators, have been developed. These insulations, termed multilayer insulations or superinsulations, are very effective when subjected to a high vacuum (5 × 10–5 to 10–6 Torr) in reducing the heat leak into low-temperature systems. One type, which has as many as 50 layers of 0.00025-in.thick, aluminum-coated polyester radiation shields, has an apparent thermal conductivity at these pressures that is only 1/2000 that of ambient air.[1] In addition to new insulations for minimizing heat losses, special attention has been given to the thermal conduction effects associated with the design of supporting structures of cryogenic containers.

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Timmerhaus, K.D. (1975). Conductive Heat Transfer. In: Frost, W. (eds) Heat Transfer at Low Temperatures. The International Cryogenics Monograph Series. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1998-4_2

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