Abstract:
A modified two-phase refrigeration cycle compresses a working fluid, condenses the working fluid into a saturated or supercooled liquid, expands the saturated or supercooled liquid into a two-phase fluid, and evaporates the two-phase working fluid. The modified two-phase refrigeration cycle reduces irreversibilities imposed by conventional refrigeration cycles and extracts energy from the working fluid during the expansion process. For instance, a system that employs the modified two-phase refrigeration cycle includes a two-phase expander to reduce irreversibilities during an expansion process and extract energy. In some instances, the system includes a two-phase compressor to compress two-phase fluids for varying loads and environmental conditions of the system.
Abstract:
A cooling system includes a first heat exchanger, an evaporator coupled to a thermal load of an aircraft. first and second cooling circuits coupled to the heat exchanger, the first and second cooling circuits selectable via a set of cooling circuit valves that are arranged to direct a refrigerant through the first circuit, the second circuit, or both the first and second circuits based on air passing through the first heat exchanger at ambient conditions of the aircraft, and a receiver configured to accumulate reserve refrigerant to provide flexibility in system operation as the cooling system operates in sub-critical, trans-critical, and super-critical modes of operation.
Abstract:
Disclosed illustrative embodiments include systems and methods for power peaking with energy storage. In an illustrative, non-limiting embodiment, a power plant includes a thermodynamic piping circuit having a working fluid contained therein, and the working fluid has a flow direction and a flow rate. Power plant components are interposed in the thermodynamic piping circuit. The power plant components include a compressor system, a recuperator system, a heat source, a turbine system, a heat rejection system, and a thermal energy storage system. A valving system is operable to selectively couple the heat rejection system, the thermal energy storage system, and the compressor system in thermohydraulic communication with the working fluid maintaining the flow direction and the flow rate to implement a thermodynamic cycle chosen from a Brayton cycle, a combination Brayton cycle/refrigeration cycle, and a Rankine cycle.
Abstract:
This invention relates to a chemisorption based energy storage device, able to provide electricity, heating or cooling depending on the desired energy output. The device typically comprises sorbent materials which have an affinity for a refrigerant gas at different temperatures.
Abstract:
This invention is about a cascade cold dynamic cycle refrigeration apparatus, which makes up cold energy with cryogenic liquid refrigerant by boosting with a dual-stage liquid circulating pump, after its temperature is increased via the cold regenerator, it enters the cold consuming apparatus to provide cold and becomes a gaseous refrigerant, then it flows through the expander to expand and make work by reducing pressure and temperature, and then returns to the refrigerant tank via the cold regenerator or/and throttle valve. This invention requires no circulation cooling water system as in a traditional vapor compression refrigeration apparatus, so its maintenance and operation cost can be substantially reduced, with a apparatus of the same refrigerating capacity, it can save energy by more than 30% as compared with traditional ones, as compared with traditional refrigerating circulation technology, it can adopt enhanced cold transfer elements more conveniently, with more compact refrigerating equipment and higher refrigerating efficiency.
Abstract:
A multi-chamber air conditioner including a heat-source side refrigerant circuit in which a compressor, an outdoor heat exchanger, a first heat exchanger, a refrigerant flow-rate controller, and a second heat exchanger are connected in series, a first use-side refrigerant circuit in which the first heat exchanger and an indoor heat exchanger are connected in series, and a second use-side refrigerant circuit in which the second heat exchanger and the indoor heat exchanger are connected in series, and a heat-source side refrigerant circulating in the heat-source side refrigerant circuit and a use-side refrigerant circulating in the use-side refrigerant circuit are heat-exchanged in the first heat exchanger. The heat-source side refrigerant circulating in the heat-source side refrigerant circuit and the use-side refrigerant circulating in the use-side refrigerant circuit are heat-exchanged in the second heat exchanger.
Abstract:
To provide a refrigerating cycle apparatus capable of improving cooling ability by water spray to perform an efficient operation while suppressing decrease in collected power by an expander. The refrigerating cycle apparatus includes: a first compressor that compresses the refrigerant; an expander that decompresses and expands the refrigerant to collect power for expansion; a second compressor that is driven by the power collected by the expander to further compresses the refrigerant compressed by the first compressor to transmit it to a main radiator; a heat exchanger having an intercooler that cools the refrigerant compressed by the first compressor and a main radiator that cools the refrigerant compressed by the second heat exchanger to transmit it to the expander; indoor heat exchangers that heat the refrigerant decompressed by the expander; and a water spray apparatus that sprays water onto the outer surface of the intercooler and the main radiator. The water spray apparatus sprays water such that the water spray amount per heat transfer area of the intercooler becomes larger than that of the main radiator.
Abstract:
An integrated power and refrigeration system is disclosed that includes a first subsystem configured to provide cooling air using a reverse-Brayton cycle using compressed air and a second subsystem configured to provide power by accepting a first portion of the compressed air from the first subsystem, heating the accepted first portion of the compressed air to form hot compressed air, and using the hot compressed air to drive a turbine that is coupled to a power generator.
Abstract:
A multi-chamber type air-conditioning apparatus is provided in which a refrigerant whose effect on human bodies is a concern is prevented from leaking into a room or the like in which an indoor unit is installed, simultaneous operation of cooling and heating is possible, and performance deterioration by a refrigerant flow control device or drop of the cooling capacity of the indoor unit can be prevented.A heat-source-side refrigerant cycle A in which compressor 11, an outdoor heat exchanger 13, a second refrigerant flow control device 25b, a first intermediate heat exchanger 21, a first refrigerant flow control device 25, a second intermediate heat exchanger 22, and a third refrigerant flow control device 25c are connected in series and a use-side refrigerant cycle B in which each of the first intermediate heat exchanger 21 and the second intermediate heat exchanger 22 and each indoor heat exchanger 31 are connected in series, and in each of the first intermediate heat exchanger 21 and the second intermediate heat exchanger 22, and a heat-source-side refrigerant circulating through the heat-source-side refrigerant cycle A and a use-side refrigerant circulating through the use-side refrigerant cycle B are made to exchange heat.
Abstract:
A cooling system for an aircraft includes a first cooling circuit having a first evaporator and a second evaporator, and a second cooling circuit having a third evaporator and a fourth evaporator. One of the first and second cooling circuits includes a first set of valves arranged to direct refrigerant through a first cooling sub-circuit, a second cooling sub-circuit, or both the first and second cooling sub-circuits based on ambient conditions. Two of the evaporators are installed on a first side of the aircraft, and the other two of the four evaporators are installed on a second side of the aircraft opposite the first side, and the first and second cooling circuits reject heat, via a heat exchanger, from their respective cooling circuit to air passing into an engine of the aircraft.