Phase change material storage heater
    1.
    发明授权
    Phase change material storage heater 失效
    相变材料储存加热器

    公开(公告)号:US5687706A

    公开(公告)日:1997-11-18

    申请号:US428905

    申请日:1995-04-25

    摘要: A storage heater for storing heat and for heating a fluid, such as water, has an enclosure defining a chamber therein. The chamber has a lower portion and an upper portion with a heating element being disposed within the enclosure. A tube through which the fluid flows has an inlet and an outlet, both being disposed outside of the enclosure, and has a portion interconnecting the inlet and the outlet that passes through the enclosure. A densely packed bed of phase change material pellets is disposed within the enclosure and is surrounded by a viscous liquid, such as propylene glycol. The viscous liquid is in thermal communication with the heating element, the phase change material pellets, and the tube and transfers heat from the heating element to the pellets and from the pellets to the tube. The viscous fluid has a viscosity so that the frictional pressure drop of the fluid in contact with the phase change material pellets substantially reduces vertical thermal convection in the fluid. As the fluid flows through the tube heat is transferred from the viscous liquid to the fluid flowing through the tube, thereby heating the fluid.

    摘要翻译: 用于储存热量并用于加热诸如水的流体的储存加热器具有在其中限定室的外壳。 腔室具有下部和上部,其中加热元件设置在外壳内。 流体流过的管具有入口和出口,两者都设置在外壳的外部,并且具有将入口和出口互连的部分,其通过外壳。 相变材料颗粒的密集填充床设置在外壳内并被粘性液体如丙二醇包围。 粘性液体与加热元件,相变材料颗粒和管道热连通,并将热量从加热元件传递到颗粒,并从颗粒转移到管中。 粘性流体具有粘度,使得与相变材料颗粒接触的流体的摩擦压降基本上降低了流体中的垂直热对流。 当流体流过管道时,热量从粘性液体传递到流过管道的流体,从而加热流体。

    Photocatalytic air disinfection
    3.
    发明授权
    Photocatalytic air disinfection 失效
    光催化空气消毒

    公开(公告)号:US5933702A

    公开(公告)日:1999-08-03

    申请号:US988814

    申请日:1997-12-11

    申请人: D. Yogi Goswami

    发明人: D. Yogi Goswami

    IPC分类号: A61L9/20 B01D53/86 F24F3/12

    摘要: A method for disinfecting an air stream containing microorganisms including the steps of providing an air stream containing microorganisms having a relative humidity greater than about 40%; and contacting the air stream with a photocatalyst having a predetermined band gap energy in the presence of a source of photons having a wavelength corresponding to the band gap energy of the photocatalyst, so that at least a portion of the microorganisms in the air stream are destroyed by photocatalyfic oxidation. Devices embodying the method of the invention are disclosed, such as stand-alone devices and devices incorporated into the HVAC systems of buildings, including the air supply registers. Photocatalyst-coated filter media capable of trapping bioaerosols are also disclosed.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于消毒含有微生物的空气流的方法,包括以下步骤:提供含有相对湿度大于约40%的微生物的空气流; 并且在具有对应于光催化剂的带隙能量的波长的光子源的存在下,使气流与具有预定带隙能量的光催化剂接触,使得空气流中的至少一部分微生物被破坏 通过光催化氧化。 公开了体现本发明方法的装置,诸如并入装置的建筑物HVAC系统中的独立设备和装置,包括空气供应寄存器。 还公开了能够捕获生物溶胶的光催化剂涂覆的过滤介质。

    Contact resistance-regulated storage heater for fluids
    6.
    发明授权
    Contact resistance-regulated storage heater for fluids 失效
    接触式电阻调节储液加热器

    公开(公告)号:US5694515A

    公开(公告)日:1997-12-02

    申请号:US370265

    申请日:1995-01-09

    摘要: A storage fluid heater for heating a fluid, employs a heat storage unit, a heating element thermally coupled to the heat storage unit, and a heat recovery tube thermally coupled to the heat storage unit. The recovery tube is made from a material having a coefficient of thermal expansion so that as the average temperature of the heat storage unit near the heat recovery tube increases, the surface area of gaps between the heat recovery tube and the storage unit increases, causing the contact resistance between the heat storage unit and the heat recovery tube to increase. The temperature of the fluid flowing within the heat recovery tube is thereby limited to a predetermined maximum. A structure that relieves excess pressure when the flow of fluid through the tube is stopped has an expansion tank connected to the fluid inlet of the tube.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于加热流体的储存流体加热器,采用热存储单元,与该蓄热单元热耦合的加热元件,以及与热存储单元热耦合的热回收管。 回收管由具有热膨胀系数的材料制成,随着热回收管附近的蓄热单元的平均温度升高,热回收管与储存单元之间的间隙的表面积增加, 蓄热单元与热回收管之间的接触电阻增加。 因此,在热回收管内流动的流体的温度被限制在预定的最大值。 当通过管的流体流动停止时减轻过压的结构具有连接到管的流体入口的膨胀罐。

    Rectenna solar energy harvester
    9.
    发明授权
    Rectenna solar energy harvester 有权
    天线太阳能收割机

    公开(公告)号:US08115683B1

    公开(公告)日:2012-02-14

    申请号:US12436601

    申请日:2009-05-06

    IPC分类号: H01Q1/24

    摘要: A rectenna is a combination of an antenna and a rectifier (diode). Because of limitations in nanotechnology fabrication, it has not been possible to develop rectennas that can operate in the visible frequency range. Current work has gone to producing rectennas that operate in the far infrared (thermal emission) frequency range. To harvest solar energy with rectennas to produce electric power and since rectennas cannot operate at such high frequencies, the present invention provides rectenna configurations to overcome this problem.

    摘要翻译: 整流天线是天线和整流器(二极管)的组合。 由于纳米技术制造的局限性,不可能开发可在可见光频率范围内工作的直角电极。 目前的工作已经开始生产在远红外线(热发射)频率范围内工作的直角电流。 为了用直立天线收获太阳能以产生电力,并且由于直立电极不能在这样高的频率下工作,本发明提供了整流天线配置来克服这个问题。

    Practical method of CO2 sequestration
    10.
    发明授权
    Practical method of CO2 sequestration 有权
    二氧化碳封存的实用方法

    公开(公告)号:US07896953B1

    公开(公告)日:2011-03-01

    申请号:US12335049

    申请日:2008-12-15

    IPC分类号: B01D53/14 B01D53/62

    摘要: A process and device to capture of CO2 at its originating source, such as a power plant, is disclosed. Absorbent material is recharged by desorbing CO2, so that it may be sequestered or used in another application. Continual recharging results in loss of absorbent surface area, due to pore plugging and sintering of particles. Calcium oxide or calcium hydroxide was immobilized to a fibrous ceramic-based fabric substrate as a thin film and sintered, creating an absorbent material. The samples were characterized, showing continuous cyclic carbonation conversions between about 62% and 75% under mild calcination conditions at 750° C. and no CO2 in N2. Under the more severe calcination condition at 850° C. and 20 wt % CO2 in N2, yttria fabric was superior to alumina as a substrate for carbon dioxide capture and the reactivity of the calcium oxide absorbent immobilized to yttria was maintained at the same level in the 12 cycles.

    摘要翻译: 公开了一种捕获二氧化碳在其原始来源(如发电厂)的方法和装置。 吸收材料通过解吸二氧化碳来再充电,以便可以将其隔离或用于另一种应用。 由于孔隙堵塞和颗粒烧结,持续充电导致吸收表面积的损失。 将氧化钙或氢氧化钙作为薄膜固定在纤维状陶瓷基织物基材上并烧结,形成吸收材料。 表征样品,在温和的焙烧条件下在750℃下,在N2中没有CO 2,显示连续环碳酸转化率在约62%至75%之间。 在850℃下的更严格的煅烧条件和N2中的20重量%的CO 2下,氧化钇织物优于氧化铝作为二氧化碳捕获的底物,并且固定在氧化钇上的氧化钙吸收剂的反应性保持在相同的水平 12个周期。