Fluid pulsation and transient attenuator

Claim 1

A fluid system contraction and expansion wave attenuator, comprising: means, including a cylindrical wall and two side walls, for forming a vortex chamber; at least one inlet means, for directing a flow of fluid into said vortex chamber tangential to the cylindrical wall; means for providing diode action in said inlet; said means for providing diode action, including means for increasing the velocity flow into said vortex chamber; a vortex chamber outlet, in one of said side walls, coaxial with the cylindrical wall; an outlet conduit connected to said vortex chamber outlet; said outlet conduit including means for attenuating pulsations and transients in the fluid flow through the outlet conduit; a second cylindrical wall, one of said side walls and an additional wall, for forming a second vortex chamber; at least one inlet means for directing a flow of fluid into said second vortex chamber tangential to the second cylindrical wall; means for providing diode action in the inlet to said second vortex chamber; said means providing diode action in the inlet to the second vortex chamber including means for increasing the velocity flow into said second vortex chamber; a second vortex chamber outlet, in said additional wall, coaxial with the second cylindrical wall; a refrigerator evaporator connected between the outlet of one of said vortex chambers and an inlet of the other vortex chamber and a compressor and condensor connected in series between the outlet of the other vortex chamber and an inlet of said one of said vortex chambers.