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1877
  • Raoul Pictet
  • Louis Paul Cailletet
Historical laboratory showcasing the Gas Liquefaction Cascade Process with vintage cryogenic equipment.

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This gas liquefaction process, pioneered by Raoul Pictet, liquefies a gas by using a series of other gases with progressively lower boiling points. The first gas is liquefied by プレッシャー at ambient temperature. Its evaporation is then used to cool and liquefy a second, more volatile gas, which in turn is used to cool and liquefy the target gas, creating a ‘cascade’ of cooling stages.

Raoul Pictet’s apparatus in 1877 was a landmark achievement. He used sulfur dioxide (SO2), which liquefies at -10 °C under pressure, as the first stage. By allowing the liquid SO2 to evaporate, he cooled carbon dioxide (CO2) below its critical temperature, allowing it to be liquefied. The evaporating liquid CO2, which boils at -78 °C, then provided the intense cold needed to cool oxygen gas below its critical temperature (-118 °C). By subjecting this cold oxygen gas to very high pressure, Pictet produced the first visible droplets of liquid oxygen. Louis Paul Cailletet achieved a similar result independently at the same time using a different method. The cascade method is thermodynamically efficient but complex, requiring multiple refrigeration circuits with different refrigerants. It was a crucial step before the development of more integrated systems like the Hampson-Linde cycle, and its principles are still applied in modern multi-stage refrigeration cycles, particularly in large-scale LNG production.

UNESCO Nomenclature: 2212
熱力学

タイプ

化学プロセス

混乱

実質的な

使用法

広く普及している

前駆物質

  • Discovery of critical temperatures (Thomas Andrews)
  • Michael Faraday’s work on liquefying gases like chlorine and ammonia
  • Understanding of 潜熱 of vaporization
  • Development of mechanical compressors and pumps

アプリケーション

  • liquefaction of natural gas (LNG) in large-scale plants
  • early liquefaction of oxygen and nitrogen
  • scientific research requiring multiple 極低温 temperature stages
  • industrial gas separation processes
  • multi-stage refrigeration systems

特許:

NA

潜在的なイノベーションのアイデア

  • integrated multi-stage cooling systems for future fusion reactors
  • cascade refrigeration for deep-space habitats using in-situ resources
  • modular cryogenic plants for decentralized production of medical oxygen
  • hybrid cascade-thermoelectric coolers for silent, high-efficiency refrigeration
  • cryogenic energy storage systems using cascaded phase-change materials
  • advanced LNG processes with mixed-refrigerant loops, an evolution of the cascade principle
  • ultra-low temperature preservation of biological tissues and organs
  • cascade systems for liquefying hydrogen for the hydrogen economy
  • cryogenic recycling processes for separating complex alloys
  • compact cascade coolers for high-temperature superconductor applications
Related to: cascade process, liquefaction, Raoul Pictet, cryogenics, refrigeration cycle, boiling point, oxygen, phase change, multi-stage cooling, thermodynamics.

歴史的背景

ガス液化カスケードプロセス

1869
1871
1876
1877
1880
1882-01-01
1884
1868
1870
1873
1877
1880
1882-01-01
1883
1884

(日付が不明または関連性がない場合、例えば「流体力学」などでは、その注目すべき出現時期の概算値が提示されます。)

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