Recipient design to contain an energy storage medium with high fusion-crystallization latent heat
US4768579A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Aug 27, 1987 |
| Grant date | Sep 6, 1988 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 27, 2007 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY02E60/14
- WIPO fieldThermal processes and apparatus
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
A recipient which is filled with a storage medium which expands during phase transformation wherein the recipient is a flexible structure having a geometrical shape such that only the flexibility of the structure is required to increase its volume to compensate for the expansion of the stored medium without creating stress or stretching the walls of the structure.
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