Abstract:
The invention relates to a production station for use in producing at least one layered bed, in particular a plurality of layered beds, of a magneto caloric material, the station comprising a frame work and further for arrangement at the frame work the station comprising:—a material receptacle for receiving a particulate magnetocaloric material,—a dosing plate, having at least one intake opening adapted to receive a magneto-caloric material of one layer of the layered bed—at least one reservoir below the at least one intake opening, wherein the reservoir is adapted to receive the one or more layers of the particulate magnetocaloric material, wherein the production station further comprises:—a shutter plate arranged between the reservoir and the dosing plate, wherein the shutter plate is switchable through motion with respect to the dosing plate and wherein the shutterplate is arranged and adapted to at least activate a filling modus, wherein in the filling modus the at least one reservoir is filled with particulate magneto caloric material of the one layer of the layered bed by a switching control of the shutter plate.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a heat exchanger bed constructed of a cascade of at least three different magnetocaloric materials having different Curie temperatures, arranged in series by increasing or decreasing Curie temperature and preferably each insulated from each other by intermediate thermal and/or electrical insulators, wherein the difference in the Curie temperatures of adjacent magnetocaloric materials is 0.5 to 6 °C.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a packed heat exchanger bed made of thermomagnetic material particles, comprising an average diameter in the range of 50 μm to 1 mm and resulting in a porosity in the range of 30 to 45% in the packed bed, and a heat exchanger bed made of a thermomagnetic material monolith comprising through channels having a cross-sectional area of the individual channels in the range of 0.001 to 0.2 mm 2 and a wall thickness of 50 to 300 μm, having a porosity in the range of 10 to 60%, and having a ratio of surface area to volume in the range of 3000 to 50000 m 2 /m 3 , or comprising a plurality of parallel plates having a plate thickness from 0.1 to 2 mm and a plate spacing distance of 0.05 to 1 mm.