Heat driven thermal management systems and methods for operating the same

US12209533B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• General Electric Company · US

Inventors

• Rodrigo Rodriguez Erdmenger · Munich, DE
• David Raju Yamarthi · Bengaluru, IN
• Maysaa Rizk · Garching an der Alz, DE
• David Justin Brady · Rockport, US
• Adam Joseph Wangler · Evendale, US
• Ismail Hakki Sezal · Munich, DE
• Michael Joseph Murray · West Chester, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 28, 2023
• Grant date: Jan 28, 2025
• Expiry date: Feb 28, 2043

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F05D2270/304
• WIPO field: Engines, pumps, turbines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to power thermal management systems with heat of a working fluid therein. Example thermal management system include: a thermal transport bus loop fluidly coupled to at least one heat source exchanger and at least one heat sink exchanger; a turbomachine including a turbine and a compressor, the turbine and compressor rotatably interlocked via a shaft, the compressor coupled to the thermal transport bus loop, the turbine including an inlet and an outlet, the inlet connected to a first point of the thermal transport bus loop via a first flowline, the outlet connected to a second point of the thermal transport bus loop via a second flowline; and a control valve coupled to the first flowline, the control valve to adjust a mass flowrate of the heat exchange fluid in the first flowline based on a speed of the shaft.