Refrigerators/freezers incorporating solid-vapor sorption reactors capable of high reaction rates
US5628205A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Feb 16, 1995 |
| Grant date | May 13, 1997 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 16, 2015 |
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- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY02P20/10
- WIPO fieldThermal processes and apparatus
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
A refrigerator and/or freezer incorporates one or more reactors containing a complex compound of a metal salt and a polar gas adsorbed thereon in which the volumetric expansion of the complex compound is restricted during adsorption, and which reactors comprise one or reaction chambers having a maximum means mass diffusion path length of less than about 15 mm, and/or a maximum thermal diffusion path length of less than 1.5 mm.
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