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Regenerative cooling is a method ofcooling gases in which compressed gas is cooled by allowing it to expand and thereby take heat from the surroundings. The cooled expanded gas then passes through aheat exchanger where it cools the incoming compressed gas.[1]
In 1857, Siemens introduced the regenerative cooling concept with theSiemens cycle.[2] In 1895,William Hampson in England[3] andCarl von Linde in Germany[4] independently developed and patented theHampson–Linde cycle to liquefy air using theJoule–Thomson expansion process and regenerative cooling.[5] On 10 May 1898,James Dewar used regenerative cooling to become the first to staticallyliquefy hydrogen.