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5727616 Elastomeric heat exchanger bed  
A heat exchanger bed including a plurality of elastomeric sheets. The sheets have a peripheral edge and a center. The sheets also have an opening therethrough proximate the center. The sheets are...
5723059 Fluid density adjustment for functional fluids  
The dispersion of a solid material in a fluid is improved by modifying the density of the fluid to match the density of the solid material. The method of the present invention comprises the...
5720337 Finned thermal energy storage device  
A thermal energy storage device includes a sealed container having a wall defining a receptacle. An energy storage medium is disposed in the receptacle. The energy storage medium includes water and...
5713411 Means for lifting heat transfer element baskets  
A lifting device for engaging lifting openings in a splitter plate of a heat transfer element basket assembly has first and second opposed hook bodies. Each hook body has an upper engagement...
5695002 High-cycle regenerative heat exchanger  
A high-cycle regenerative combustion system has first and second regenerative heat exchanger units. A four-way valve is provided for alternately bringing the heat exchanger units into contact with...
5690164 Method and regenerator for heating a gas  
A method is provided for heating a gas in a regenerator with a heat accumulation mass consisting of a loose bulk material arranged in a ring between two coaxial cylindrical grids, a hot collection...
5662161 Breathing gas cooling and heating device  
A breathing gas cooling and heating device. Warm breathing gas enters the it which consists of a heat exchanger mounted in an insulated shell and runs through the heat exchanger tubes. These tubes...
5660226 Rotor post with floating tensile header  
A rotary regenerative air preheater having a rotor mounted to a central rotor post for rotation within a surrounding housing whereby heat absorbent material carried in the rotor is alternately...
5643538 Heat transfer and thermal cleaning rotary device applied to gaseous effluents  
A heat transfer device includes a ring having a vertical axis that can rotate inside a cage. The ring is inwardly provided with partitions. A permanent circulation of gaseous effluents is...
5615732 Air preheater with semi-modular rotor construction  
The rotor for a rotary regenerative air preheater is fabricated from a combination of shop assembled rotor sector modules and field assembled components so as to eliminate the double plate...
5605190 Heat accumulator, in particular for latent heat, and method of manufacture of the same  
A heat accumulator, in particular latent-heat accumulator, has an inner casing containing an accumulator core and with an outer casing enclosing the inner casing at a distance thereto so as to form...
5598720 Air bubble heat transfer enhancement system coolness storage apparatus  
In coolness storage apparatus wherein brine in heat exchange tubes freezes and melts water and air is bubbled up through the water during the melting cycle to enhance heat exchange efficiency by...
5596877 Header and coil arrangement for cooling apparatus  
A cooling apparatus is provided comprising a vessel confining a pool of liquid. A plurality of separate tubular passageways are immersed in the liquid. A header assembly is provided having a first...
5590705 Device for generating a hot air flow  
The present invention relates to a device generating a hot air flow, including an air source generating an air flow at its outlet (17), a heating system (13) generating heat energy and...
5577553 Regenerator  
A regenerator is provided which has an annular heat-storage medium composed of bulk material (16) and disposed between two coaxial cylindrical gratings (2 and 3, respectively), a hot collecting...
5567346 Latent heat storage material composition  
The present invention relates to a latent heat storage material composition comprising 65 to 85 wt % of sodium sulfate decahydrate, 1 to 20 wt % of ammonium chloride and 1 to 20 wt % of sodium...
5565132 Thermoplastic, moldable, non-exuding phase change materials  
A thermoplastic, moldable, non-exuding phase change material in the form of a composite useful for thermal energy storage. The composite is preferably a solidified melt mixture of a polyolefin...
5560856 Particulate agents for dry heat application  
Particulate agents of this invention typically consist of a hydrophobic, microwave transparent liquid contained in a microwave responsive substrate. Liquid and substrate are selected to be...
5555932 Heat shield for an automotive vehicle  
A heat shield 22 for an automotive vehicle 10 utilizes a phase change material 28 to absorb excess heat generated by a heat source within the vehicle. The heat shield 22 insulates a component...
5553662 Plumbed thermal energy storage system  
A thermal energy storage system is operable in heating capacity storage and discharge modes and cooling capacity storage and discharge modes for maintaining a temperature in a vehicle compartment....
5515909 Flow switching apparatus, regenerative alternate combustion burner system using the apparatus, and regenerative heat exchanger system using the apparatus  
A flow switching apparatus has a simple structure and enables a rapid flow switching operation between two systems of flow, e.g., flows in which two kinds of fluid each having a temperature...
5513696 Passive temperature regulating system for a building  
A passive temperature regulating system (2) for heating and cooling a structure (8) exposed to extreme temperatures. The system comprises a thermally conductive exterior wall, such as a roof (6),...
5513695 Support of incompressible heat transfer surface in rotary regenerative air preheaters  
Incompressible ceramic heat exchange blocks which may be catalyst coated having gas flow channels therethrough or other incompressible heat exchange surface are supported in a metal framework to...
5503222 Carousel heat exchanger for sorption cooling process  
A carousel heat exchanger is provided for air conditioning or waste heat recovery applications. The carousel heat exchanger includes a plurality of heater tubes disposed radially about a rotational...
5501268 Method of energy load management using PCM for heating and cooling of buildings  
A method of energy load management for the heating and cooling of a building. The method involves utilizing a wallboard as a portion of the building, the wallboard containing about 5 to about 30...
5494598 Heat exchange medium and articles for use thereof  
A novel heat exchange medium made from a clay and oil mixture for use in absorbing, retaining, and dispensing heat is provided. The composition and variations thereof are most effective when heat...
5469709 Regenerator for Vuilleumier heat pump  
A regenerator for a Vuilleumier heat pump comprises a hollow body having an internal surface and a heat absorbing/emitting member housed within the body. In order to prevent leakage of fluid...
5465585 Method of low-temperature stratified chilled water storage  
The lower-most temperature of the thermal mass in a chilled water stratified storage tank is lowered without reducing its density by the addition of sodium nitrite and sodium nitrate, alone or in...
5456852 Microcapsule for heat-storing material  
A microcapsule for heat-storing material which encapsulates a compound capable of undergoing phase transitions, said microcapsule containing a high-melting compound having a melting point...
5453213 Latent heat storage material containing Na.sub.2 SO.sub.4.10H.sub.2 O, NH.sub.4 Cl, NaCl and (NH.sub.4).sub.2 SO.sub.4  
The present invention relates to a latent heat storage material composition comprising 70 to 90 wt % of sodium sulfate decahydrate, 3 to 17 wt % of ammonium chloride, 1 to 13 w % of sodium chloride...
5449035 Heat accumulator, in particular latent heat accumulator  
A heat accumulator, in particular a latent heat accumulator has an inner jacket arranged to surround an accumulator core and an outer jacket surrounding the inner jacket so as to form an insulation...
5445213 Heat accumulator for heat energy and cold energy accumulating system  
A heat accumulator for a heat energy and cold energy accumulating system. This system comprises a plurality of heat accumulator units coupled to each other in series or in parallel by a heat...
5441097 Heat storage tank equipped with heat storage members and fabrication process for the same  
A heat storage tank in which heat storage and heat discharge operations are carried out through heat-exchange between heat storage agent and heat transfer medium to store electric power as latent...
5435376 Flame resistant microencapsulated phase change materials  
A microencapsulated phase change material comprising a microcapsule wall former encapsulating a phase change material as an internal phase, said phase change material being inherently resistant or...
5429177 Foil regenerator  
This invention relates to compact, high efficiency foil regenerators for use in regenerative gas cycle (e.g. Stirling cycle, Ericsson cycle, Vuilleumier cycle, Gifford-McMahon cycle, Sibling Cycle...
5417276 Particulate heating/cooling agents  
This invention discloses novel compositions of matter, in particulate forms, which function as heat transfer agents for heating or cooling applications. The particulates comprise solid carriers...
5402844 Air conditioning apparatus  
An air conditioning apparatus intended to serve several rooms and having for this purpose a number of individual air conditioning modules. Each air conditioning module (5) serves a single room and...
5400617 Device for the local cooling of human body parts  
Device for the local cooling of human body parts consisting of: a) a sheath; b) cooling means contained in said sheath; c) a flexible leaf contained also in said sheath, apt to adhere said...
5392844 Quick connect coupling  
A cooling apparatus includes a container filled with a quantity of coolant fluid initially cooled to a solid phase, a cooling loop disposed between a heat load and the container. A pump for...
5389275 Compositions for storing coolness capacity  
Sodium hydroxide-water solutions that have freezing-melting point plateaus below 47° F. can be used to store cooling capacity by their heat of fusion, and-compositions that freeze at about 41° F....
5386871 Thermal energy storage and recovery system  
A heat storage apparatus is disclosed providing a vertical tube bundle arrangement in a vessel containing a heat storage medium. The tube bundle is divided into modular sector-shaped units each...
5336471 Support of ceramic catalyst  
Ceramic blocks which may be catalyst coated having gas flow channels therethrough are supported in a metal framework to form a removable basket for a rotary regenerative air heater. The blocks are...
5332029 Regenerator  
Disclosed is a regenerator loaded with a relatively cheap heat regenerative material which exhibits excellent specific heat, heat transfer capability and recuperativeness under cryogenic...
5323843 Lih thermal energy storage device  
A thermal energy storage device for use in a pulsed power supply to store waste heat produced in a high-power burst operation utilizes lithium hydride as the phase change thermal energy storage...
5323842 Temperature-stabilized heat exchanger  
A heat exchange module comprises a rotating-wheel type regenerative heat exchanger unit having a plurality of heat exchange elements mounted in baskets through the volume of the heat exchanger...
5318101 Thermal accumulation type heating and cooling device using heat transfer medium  
A heating and cooling device comprising a box type heat exchange tank containing a heat transfer medium having an thermal accumulation effect therein and a heat exchange pipe arranged in said heat...
5318102 Heat transfer plate packs and baskets, and their utilization in heat recovery devices  
A pack of heat transfer plates for regenerative heat exchangers is operationally adapted to absorb heat from a flue gas flowing in one axial direction along the main flow axis and release such heat...
5314006 Sheet metal heating package for regenerative heat exchangers as well as a method and apparatus for manufacture of profiled metal sheets for such sheet metal heating packages  
A sheet metal heating package for heat exchangers including a plurality of superimposed sheets having at least a partial profiling for instance embossments leaving free flow channels in between...
5305821 High-temperature heat storage device  
In order to improve a heat storage device comprising a storage container which has an inner chamber for accommodating alkali and alkaline earth compounds, in particular alkali and alkaline earth...
5300246 Salty water absorbing composition, salty water ice pack, and salty water absorbing pack  
A salty water absorbing composition, salty water ice packs, and salty water absorbing packs used to preserve freshness of meat, fresh fish and shells, vegetables and other watery food when they are...