141 |
HEAT PUMP SYSTEM FOR VEHICLE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF |
US13316298 |
2011-12-09 |
US20130019615A1 |
2013-01-24 |
Yong Hyun Choi; Jae Yeon Kim; Yong Woong Cha; Wan Je Cho; Jungha Park; Jaesan Kim; Man Hee Park |
A method for controlling a heat pump system is provided with air conditioning means connected to a controller and including a plurality of valves and expansion valves connected to each other through a refrigerant line and a bypass line, a compressor, an accumulator, an evaporator, an exterior condenser, an interior condenser, and an HVAC module having a PTC heater and a door at a warming mode, a cooling mode, a dehumidification mode, a dehumidification/defrosting mode, or an extremely low temperature dehumidification/defrosting mode according to selection of a driver. |
142 |
SYMMETRICAL INTERMEDIATE STORAGE MEANS FOR HEAT PUMPS WITH CYCLICAL DRAINAGE INTO A MAIN SYSTEM |
US13391286 |
2010-08-11 |
US20120144853A1 |
2012-06-14 |
Michael Loeffler |
Heat pumps and refrigerating machines operate optimally if the temperature difference of the connected heat sources and heat sinks is as small. If this is not the case, there are two negative effects: At a high spread, increased dissipation occurs in the condensers and evaporators. In order to increase spread, the heat return flow is frequently mixed with the heat pump flow. For this purpose, hydraulic separators and overflow valves are employed. This results in highly dissipative mixing of heat carrier medium with differing temperatures. Using a pair of intermediate storage means, the dissipation that occurs can be drastically reduced. The low spread of the heat pump is adjusted to the high spread of the remaining system. The COP of the system is substantially improved. With heat pumps, the improvement ranges from about 5% to 20%. |
143 |
Air Source Heat Exchange System and Method Utilizing Temperature Gradient and Water |
US12993521 |
2009-05-25 |
US20110067437A1 |
2011-03-24 |
SaeHeum Song |
An air source heat exchange system and method in which usable heat is exchanged between a prescribed volume of a fluid heat exchange medium, preferably water, within a heat exchange chamber and ambient air outside the chamber. At least one and preferably a plurality of air source heat exchange chambers are provided, each having a volume for containing the prescribed volume of water dwelled within the chamber. The chamber has a chamber wall constructed of a material enabling effective heat transfer between the water dwelled within the chamber and adjacent ambient air outside the chamber. A circulation system circulates the water along a path of flow passing into and out of the volume of the chamber at a rate of flow so related to the prescribed volume of water that usable heat is transferred through the chamber wall, between the ambient air and the prescribed volume of water dwelled within the chamber. |
144 |
Membrane desiccation heat pump |
US10771971 |
2004-02-04 |
US07188480B2 |
2007-03-13 |
Amos Korin |
There is provided a system for pumping thermal energy. The system includes (a) a heater for heating a liquid, (b) a gas-liquid contactor for adding vapor from the liquid to a process gas to produce a vapor-containing gas, and (c) a membrane permeator for removing the vapor from the vapor-containing gas and for providing a resultant vapor. The system transfers a quantity of thermal energy from the heater to the resultant vapor. |
145 |
Water-source heat pump control system and method |
US11491768 |
2006-07-24 |
US20070023534A1 |
2007-02-01 |
Mingsheng Liu |
A method and system of controlling a water heat pump system. The water heat pump system includes a fan, a water pump, and a boiler. The method includes determining a system time characteristic, determining a heat rejection rate based on the system time characteristic, and determining a loop flow rate based on the heat rejection rate. The method also includes sensing a loop flow rate of the water heat pump system, comparing the sensed loop flow rate with the determined loop flow rate, and modulating a speed of the water pump based on the comparing. |
146 |
Performance prediction program and performance prediction system for ground source heat pump system |
US11084762 |
2005-03-18 |
US07113888B2 |
2006-09-26 |
Katsunori Nagano; Takao Katsura |
A computer which functions by a performance prediction program for a ground source heat pump system of the present invention and a performance prediction system constructed thereby include a dimensionless distance calculating means, a first dimensionless time calculating means, a second dimensionless time calculating means, a boundary time acquiring means, an underground temperature change calculating means, and a tube surface temperature change calculating means. The performance prediction program and performance prediction system can be applied to the design of heat exchange system by obtaining predicted underground temperature data for the ground source heat pump system with high accuracy and predicting the performance for the ground source heat pump system based on the resulting underground temperature changes, etc., considering the use of a plurality of buried tubes, underground temperature change patterns for buried tubes placed at different intervals, and the use of U-shaped tube heat exchangers. |
147 |
Membrane desiccation heat pump |
US10011790 |
2001-12-04 |
US06739142B2 |
2004-05-25 |
Amos Korin |
There is provided a system for pumping thermal energy. The system includes (a) a membrane permeator for removing vapor from a process gas and for providing a vapor-depleted process gas, and (b) a gas-liquid contactor for adding vapor from a liquid to a vapor-depleted gas to produce a vapor-added process gas. The system transfers a quantity of thermal energy from the liquid to the vapor-added process gas, and is also capable of upgrading the thermal energy to a higher temperature. The system may be used for various heat pump applications including chilling and waste heat or low level heat recovery. |
148 |
Cooling machine or heat pump |
US618230 |
1984-06-07 |
US4584840A |
1986-04-29 |
Heinz Baumann |
The cooling machine or heat pump has a thermoacoustic work system having a heat source and a heat sink coupled with at least one thermoacoustic drive system of like construction. The heat source of the drive system has a higher temperature than the heat source of the work system. The machine can be used in a refrigerating system with heat energy removed from a cold chamber and used as a heat source in the thermoacoustic work system. The machine can also be used in a heat pump heating system with heat energy removed by way of a first heat exchange surface from a burner and used as a heat source in the thermoacoustic drive system. A process water circuit is used as a heat sink for the thermoacoustic drive system while a heating-water circuit is used as a heat sink for the thermoacoustic work system. |
149 |
Heat pump/refrigerator using liquid working fluid |
US154173 |
1980-05-28 |
US4353218A |
1982-10-12 |
John C. Wheatley; Douglas N. Paulson; Paul C. Allen; William R. Knight; Paul A. Warkentin |
A heat transfer device is described that can be operated as a heat pump or refrigerator, which utilizes a working fluid that is continuously in a liquid state and which has a high temperature-coefficient of expansion near room temperature, to provide a compact and high efficiency heat transfer device for relatively small temperature differences as are encountered in heating or cooling rooms or the like. The heat transfer device includes a pair of heat exchangers that may be coupled respectively to the outdoor and indoor environments, a regenerator connecting the two heat exchangers, a displacer that can move the liquid working fluid through the heat exchangers via the regenerator, and a means for alternately increasing and decreasing the pressure of the working fluid. The liquid working fluid enables efficient heat transfer in a compact unit, and leads to an explosion-proof smooth and quiet machine characteristic of hydraulics. The device enables efficient heat transfer as the indoor-outdoor temperature difference approaches zero, and enables simple conversion from heat pumping to refrigeration as by merely reversing the direction of a motor that powers the device. |
150 |
Feedback energy conversion system |
US076664 |
1979-09-18 |
US4313305A |
1982-02-02 |
Dan Egosi |
A heat pumping process for the generation of industrially useful heat energy achieves an improved fuel effectiveness by feeding back to the process part of its otherwise output heat energy as an input to assist in compressing the process evaporized performing fluid. An equivalent amount of extraneous fuel otherwise required to carry out the mechanical work now done by the fed back energy is thus replaced. |
151 |
Energy conversion method with water recovery |
US910098 |
1978-05-30 |
US4282070A |
1981-08-04 |
Dan Egosi |
A mechanical energy conversion method and system for the restoration of dissipated heat energy, contained in natural or artificial water bodies at or near ambient temperatures, to industrial process heat, mainly in the form of steam up to 200.degree.-400.degree. C. The sensible heat contained in a water body is concentrated as latent heat in low pressure water vapor which is thermo-compressed by steam ejection to an intermediate pressure level, wherefrom mechanical compression takes over, generating highly superheated output steam. The ejecting steam is not generated in a boiler, but is continuously regenerated by the compressor and routed back for repeated ejection. The compressor is driven by a heat engine whose reject heat is collected and upgraded as well. The output of heat energy is essentially equal to the sum of the heating value of the fuel consumed and the intake of latent heat and amounts thus to substantially more than the heating value of the fuel alone. |
152 |
Heat pump |
US918234 |
1978-06-23 |
US4197715A |
1980-04-15 |
Sherwood L. Fawcett; James N. Anno |
Heat pump apparatus employing a continuous loop passageway containing a plurality of freely-movable, unrestrained bodies. The bodies are accelerated around the passageway in one direction by adiabatic expansion of a fluid between the bodies in an expander region of the passageway. The expanded, cooler fluid is discharged from the passageway via one or more vent-intake ports in the passageway beyond the expander region. Warmer fluid enters the passageway via said ports and is compressed between the propelled bodies in a compression region of the passageway, thereby raising its temperature from a first temperature (e.g., the temperature of the outdoor atmosphere or an industrial waste heat stream) to a second temperature higher than the first. The compressed, warmer fluid is thereafter passed through a heat exchanger to extract heat. In passing through the compression region the bodies are decelerated and they then pass through a thruster region of the passageway wherein a force is applied to the bodies to counterbalance the external forces acting against the bodies as they move around the loop passageway. From the thruster region the bodies pass to the expander region to repeat the cycle. From the heat exchanger the fluid, typically together with additional compressed fluid from an external source, is introduced into the expander region to again accelerate the bodies. |
153 |
Heat engine and heat pump utilizing a working medium undergoing
solidification and melting operations |
US474317 |
1974-05-29 |
US3953973A |
1976-05-04 |
Chen-yen Cheng; Sing-Wang Cheng |
The present invention introduces a heat engine, or a heat pump, in which the working medium used is subjected alternatively to solidification and melting operations. A working medium so used is referred to as an S/L type working medium. In a new heat engine, an S/L type working medium is subjected to cyclic operations, each cycle comprises of a high temperature melting step conducted under a first pressure, and a low temperature solidification step conducted under a second pressure. In a new heat pump, each cycle comprises of a high temperature solidification step conducted under a first pressure and a low temperature melting step conducted under a second pressure. When a non-aqueous medium is used, the first pressure and the second pressure are a relatively high pressure and a relatively low pressure, respectively. When an aqueous medium is used the two pressures are a relatively low pressure and a relatively high pressure, respectively. it is noted that the operation of a heat pump is the reverse operation of a heat engine. |
154 |
Manually actuated heat pump |
US3599443D |
1969-10-22 |
US3599443A |
1971-08-17 |
HUTCHINSON WILLIAM D |
A manually actuated heat pump particularly suited for use as an auxiliary device in selectively warming and cooling an ambient medium, characterized by a pair of abaxially related, independently mounted rotatable hubs, interconnected through a plurality of elastomeric bands extending between the peripheries of the hubs and which, upon being rotated, achieve alternating elongation and contraction for the bands, whereby the bands cyclically are caused to experience a continuously reversing heat transfer process, in accordance with the principles of the socalled Joule effect in rubber, for selectively delivering and extracting heat energy from an ambient atmospheric medium, a feature of the pump being an employment of a fluid bath which receives therein the bands in selected states of elongation for effecting a heat transfer between the fluid of the bath and the bands whereby a selective preheating and precooling of the bands are achieved in a medium divorced from the ambient atmosphere for thus controlling the reversibility of the transfer of energy within the atmosphere.
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155 |
Heat pump system for paper machine dryers |
US63207557 |
1957-01-02 |
US2933826A |
1960-04-26 |
JUSTUS EDGAR J |
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156 |
Four-process cycle for a Vuilleumier heat pump |
US15037493 |
2014-11-18 |
US10030893B2 |
2018-07-24 |
Peter Hofbauer |
A four-process cycle is disclosed for a Vuilleumier heat pump that has mechatronically-controlled displacers. Vuilleumier heat pumps that use a crank to drive the displacers have been previously developed. However, mechatronic controls provides a greater degree of freedom to control the displacers. The four-process cycle provides a higher coefficient of performance than prior cycles in the crank-driven Vuilleumier heat pump and those previously disclosed for a mechatronically-driven Vuilleumier heat pump. |
157 |
Electrical energy storage and discharge system |
US15012155 |
2016-02-01 |
US09951979B2 |
2018-04-24 |
Vipluv Aga; Enrico Conte |
Electrical energy storage and discharge system for storing electrical energy as thermal energy includes a heat pump cycle with first working fluid, a water steam cycle with second working fluid, a first thermal storage system with first thermal fluid, a second thermal storage system with second thermal fluid, an electrical heater member and a power regulating member, fluidly connected to each other. The system includes fluidly connected first cold and hot storage tanks, and the system includes fluidly connected second cold and hot storage tanks. The electrical heater is operably connected to the system between the tanks. The power regulating member is electrically connected to one or more electrical sources to regulate excess electrical energy, partially, to the electrical heater, and partially, to the heat pump cycle. |
158 |
Energy Transfer Systems and Energy Transfer Methods |
US15547591 |
2015-02-04 |
US20180023896A1 |
2018-01-25 |
David D. Rule |
An energy transfer system that includes a tank comprising an outer wall having a circumference. A first fluid pathway surrounds a portion of the circumference of the tank. A second fluid pathway seals the portion of the circumference of the tank and the first fluid pathway from the environment. |
159 |
HEAT PUMP SYSTEM AND AIR-CONDITIONER |
US15663816 |
2017-07-30 |
US20180003418A1 |
2018-01-04 |
Yingning Hu; Biao LI; Jun LIN; Chengyong WANG |
A heat pump system includes a main heat pump system, a heat retaining layer and a reflecting layer coated on an partial inner surface of a building, a directly expanded strong cool-heat radiation plate having a distance from the reflecting layer, a heat radiating layer located at a side of the directly expanded strong cool-heat radiation plate and having a distance from the directly expanded strong cool-heat radiation plate, a buffer plate disposed between the heat radiating layer and the directly expanded strong cool-heat radiation plate, an anti-condensation trough disposed below the directly expanded strong cool-heat radiation plate. A sealed cavity is enclosed by the heat radiating layer and a wall surface, and the wall surface is formed by a combination of the partial inner surface of the building, the heat retaining layer and the reflecting layer, and, the sealed cavity is filled with air. |
160 |
Available and Heated Air from Warm Spaces and/or Exhaust of Air Conditioners from Residences or Buildings for Use with Heating Water of Nearby Swimming Pool |
US15183337 |
2016-06-15 |
US20170362843A1 |
2017-12-21 |
Emily Langsam Mitchell |
A system for supplementing the heater for a swimming pool comprises the use of a heat exchanger for the heat generated by an air conditioning evaporator or condenser. The system can also recover and use the otherwise lost heat of an attic and redirect the same to augment the heating of the water of a swimming pool. |