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Arrangement in a heat recovery unit

US4377201A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMar 5, 1981
Grant dateMar 22, 1983
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Expiry dateMar 5, 2001

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S165/909
  • WIPO fieldThermal processes and apparatus
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A heat recovery unit is adapted for installing in a cookery cupboard or the like space in a dwelling. Within a casing (3) the unit has a lamella heat exchanger (1), which is arranged on one corner edge and has two of its defining surfaces provided with openings for passages facing upwards and two downwards. The heat exchanger has its end walls (8) oriented in vertical planes. It is adapted for heating supply air (9, 10) through heat take-up from exhaust air (11, 12). Four vertical wall portions (13, 16) form a cross above the heat exchanger, thus providing four chambers for the ingoing and outgoing air flows (9-12). By means of portions airtightly sealed against the casing (3) and wall portions (13-17) the heat exchanger is divided into two portions, each having a cross-stream course between supply air (9, 10) and exhaust air (11, 12), with its passages for supply air and exhaust air arranged in series with the corresponding passages of the other portion. The heat exchanger is removable as a unit after opening the front (21) of the casing.

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