Reversible latent heat storage method, and reversible latent heat accumulator
US4091863A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Apr 14, 1976 |
| Grant date | May 30, 1978 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 14, 1996 |
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- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10S165/902
- WIPO fieldThermal processes and apparatus
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
Utilization of latent heat stored in a crystalline liquid heat storage medium subject to super-cooling by continuously circulating the storage medium past a heat exchanger positioned in the upper portion of an enclosed space containing a body of such storage medium to effect super-cooling thereof, then past a bed of seed crystals in the lower portion of such space to effect partial crystallization thereof, and then back past the heat exchanger.
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