Storage vessel for extremely low temperature material with cryogenic jacket

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11137115-B2
Application number	US-201916252400-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 18, 2019
Priority date	Jan 22, 2018
Publication date	Oct 5, 2021
Grant date	Oct 5, 2021

Abstract

A storage vessel for an extremely low temperature material for reducing a vaporization rate by forming a plating layer at an outer surface of a discharge pipe thereof is provided. The storage vessel for an extremely low temperature material includes an inner container configured to store an extremely low temperature material of a liquefied state through a supply pipe in an inner receiving space; an outer container installed at a separated space at the outside of the inner container and having a vacuum port configured to enable the separated space to be a vacuum state; and a heat insulating member installed in a vacuum region between the inner container and the outer container to block a heat from being transferred to the inner container, wherein a discharge pipe connected to an outlet of the inner container and configured to vaporize and discharge an extremely low temperature material is disposed between the inner container and the outer container, and at an outer surface of the discharge pipe, a thermally conductive layer coated with a highly conductive material having high thermal conductivity is formed. By a such a configuration, a heat applied to an outer container can be effectively blocked from being transferred to an inner container for storing an extremely low temperature material, and by reducing a vaporization rate of the extremely low temperature material by increasing a heat transfer area of a discharge pipe, a loss rate according to vaporization of the extremely low temperature material can be reduced and a separate cheap auxiliary extremely low temperature material in addition to the extremely low temperature material can be subsidiarily used for fuel or industrial use.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A storage vessel for an extremely low temperature material, the storage vessel comprising:
an inner container configured to store an extremely low temperature material of a liquefied state through a supply pipe in an inner receiving space;
an outer container installed at a separated space at the outside of the inner container and having a vacuum port configured to enable the separated space to be a vacuum state; and
a heat insulating member installed in a vacuum region between the inner container and the outer container to block a heat from being transferred to the inner container,
wherein a discharge pipe connected to an outlet of the inner container and configured to vaporize and discharge an extremely low temperature material is disposed between the inner container and the outer container, and
at an outer surface of the discharge pipe, a thermally conductive layer coated with a highly conductive material having high thermal conductivity is formed,
wherein at an inside of the heat insulating member, a shield film comprising copper is formed to prevent a heat from permeating into the inner container by absorbing a vaporized extremely low temperature material by transferring a portion of a heat permeated from the outside to the discharge pipe,
wherein the shield film comes in contact with a thermally conductive layer at the outside of the discharge pipe while enclosing an inner container,
wherein the thermally conductive layer is formed in a second half of the discharge pipe, and
an end portion of the thermally conductive layer formed in the second half of the discharge pipe maintains a gap from the outer container.

2. The storage vessel of claim 1 , wherein at an outer surface of the inner container, a heat blocking layer coated to reflect a radiant heat permeated from the outside by increasing emissivity is formed.

3. The storage vessel of claim 1 , wherein at the outside of the outer container, a cryogenic jacket configured to receive a separate auxiliary extremely low temperature material in addition to the extremely low temperature material is provided to reduce a vaporization heat of the extremely low temperature material by changing a phase of the auxiliary extremely low temperature material by an external heat.

4. The storage vessel of claim 3 , wherein the cryogenic jacket is formed integrally with the outer container, and in a space between an outer surface of the outer container and an inner surface of the cryogenic jacket, a space to receive the auxiliary extremely low temperature material is formed.

5. The storage vessel of claim 3 , wherein the cryogenic jacket is detachably formed from the outer container, and a receiving space of the auxiliary extremely low temperature material is formed inside the cryogenic jacket.

6. The storage vessel of claim 3 , wherein the auxiliary extremely low temperature material flows along a flow path flowing from a supply port to a discharge port along a partition wall formed in a spiral shape along a circumferential surface of the outer container.

7. The storage vessel of claim 3 , wherein the cryogenic jacket is formed in a pipe-shaped jacket formed in a spiral shape along a circumferential surface of the outer container from a supply port to a discharge port.

Assignees

• Univ Seoul Ind Coop Found

Inventors

• Rhee Gwanghoon
• Kim Gunwoo
• Moon Seongsik
• You Seongjae
• Kim Seoyoung
• Han Sangtae
• Jang Jinhyuk

Classifications

• F17C2201/056

  Small (<1 m3) · CPC title

• F17C2223/0161

  cryogenic, e.g. LNG, GNL, PLNG · CPC title

• F17C2205/0332

  Safety valves or pressure relief valves · CPC title

• F17C2223/047

  with a dip tube · CPC title

• F17C2205/0338

  Pressure regulators · CPC title