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8099966 |
System and method for controlling an environment in an aircraft using a vortex cooler
Disclosed is an air conditioning system for an aircraft which utilizes high pressure bleed air. The bleed air is pressure controlled and introduced into a vortex cooler which can be operated in two...
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7751188 |
Method and system for providing cooling of components in a data storage system
A cooling method and system is disclosed which utilizes vortex tubes to generate and direct cold air over heat-generating components of an electronic system.
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7726135 |
Energy transfer apparatus and methods
The invention provides an energy transfer apparatus having an energy transfer chamber (optionally bounded by an energy transfer tube) in which rotating flow is established. Preferably, the...
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7669428 |
Vortex tube refrigeration systems and methods
Briefly described, embodiments of this disclosure, among others, include vortex vapor compression refrigeration (VCR) systems and methods of cooling.
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7654095 |
Energy transfer apparatus and methods
The invention provides an energy transfer apparatus having an energy transfer chamber (optionally bounded by an energy transfer tube) in which rotating flow is established. Preferably, the...
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7610764 |
Vortex heat transfer device
A vortex heat transfer device includes coaxial helical coil impellers operating at differing rotational speeds that are effective for mechanically establishing the vortices and allowing controlled...
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7565808 |
Refrigerator
A refrigerator includes a gas flow generator formed with passages providing communication between an annular inlet chamber and a gas flow chamber, so that gas under pressure in the inlet chamber...
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7461513 |
Cooling system
A cooling system configured to cool an interior of an enclosure includes a cabinet, and a vortex tube secured within the cabinet. The cabinet defines a venting chamber. The vortex tube includes a...
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7458222 |
Heat exchanger apparatus for a recirculation loop and related methods and systems
A heat exchanger apparatus enables the temperature of a liquid located external to the apparatus in a recirculation loop to be controlled by heat transfer within the apparatus. A manifold fitting...
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7367196 |
Spinning cold plasma apparatus and methods relating thereto
Disclosed herein is an apparatus for generating a spinning cold plasma. A preferred embodiment of the spinning cold plasma apparatus is portable and includes a vortex tube having an inner wall to...
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7305834 |
Vortex tube cooler
The invention provides an apparatus for moving thermal energy with respect to at least one of a beverage and a food product positioned in a vehicle or a stationary beverage machine. The apparatus...
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7263836 |
Vortex tube cooling system
Systems and methods for cooling a component within a housing adapted for subsurface disposal using a vortex tube. The housing contains a first pressure chamber; a vortex tube coupled to the first...
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7219500 |
Compressor fuel gas conditioner
A compressor fuel gas conditioner for a natural gas well having a compressor which utilizes natural gas from the well as a fuel. The conditioner includes a vortex tube having an inlet to receive...
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7159405 |
Temperature control of gas filling process
The present invention provides for a method and apparatus for controlling and raising the temperature of a fitting used to transfer liquefied gas to a storage vessel. A hollow metal tube containing...
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7121098 |
High-temperature inspection device and cooling apparatus therefor
An inspection system includes a cooling apparatus for conducting visual inspections within operating temperature environments, such as, for example, the interior of a combustion turbine shortly...
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6990817 |
Method and apparatus for cooling electronic equipment within an enclosure
A system for cooling electronic assemblies includes an equipment enclosure configured to receive a plurality of electronic assemblies in a plurality of mounting locations. The system also includes...
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6932858 |
Vortex tube system and method for processing natural gas
A method and system for processing of natural gas in which a gaseous natural gas stream which is made up of a mixture of hydrocarbons is introduced into a vortex tube, forming a hot fluid stream...
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6716320 |
Evaporation of liquids
A liquid sample 3 held in an open container 2 and including a volatile solvent, is evaporated by continuously removing inert gas rich in vapor by means of a suction tube 5 whose open end is held...
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6651451 |
Variable capacity refrigeration system with a single-frequency compressor
A variable capacity refrigeration system which does not require a costly inverter compressor and does not exhibit low energy efficiency at high capacity. The system employs a constant speed...
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6569323 |
Apparatus for separation media by centrifugal force
An apparatus for the separation and purification of a mixture of gases, liquids or powders. The apparatus can be used for separating portions of the mixture such as desalting a seawater mixture or...
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6551385 |
Two stroke engine exhaust emissions separator
A separator for substantially resolving at least one component of a process stream, such as from the exhaust of an internal combustion engine. The separator includes a body defining a chamber...
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6507125 |
High efficiency energy converting apparatus and method thereof
An energy converting apparatus is disclosed which has a configuration for driving a compressor (20) by a drive force from a motor (10) to compress a fluid such as gas or liquid, generating impulse...
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6430937 |
Vortex generator to recover performance loss of a refrigeration system
The performance of a refrigeration system is often reduced due to insufficient refrigerant charge or due to the use of an inverter compressor. The performance loss is associated with the operating...
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6425249 |
High efficiency refrigeration system
An improved refrigeration system utilizing one or more vortex tubes. Vortex tubes produce liquid refrigerant from saturated-state vapor refrigerant in a vapor-compression refrigeration cycle. The...
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6401463 |
Cooling and heating system for an equipment enclosure using a vortex tube
A cooling and heating system using a vortex tube is disclosed. The system is attached to an equipment enclosure used for telecommunications, cable television and the like where a cold airstream...
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6389818 |
Method and apparatus for increasing the efficiency of a refrigeration system
A refrigeration system utilizing a vortex generator and a diffuser to reduce the pressure differential between the head pressure and suction pressure across a compressor.
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6334841 |
Centrifuge with Ranque vortex tube cooling
This centrifuge includes a chamber (5), a rotor (6) arranged therein, a device (8) for driving the rotation of the rotor, and a device (11) for cooling the atmosphere of the chamber. The device for...
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6305173 |
Vortex chamber generator for absorption heat pump and system using same
The generator of an absortion heat pump is consructed in the form of a vortex chamber. The absorbent liquid solution, with a high concentration of refrigerant, is tangentially injected into a...
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6289679 |
Non-freeze enhancement in the vortex tube
This invention is concerned with a method for a non-freeze enhancement in a vortex tube assembly which includes a heat exchanger having an uncontrolled opening in its inner passage and a vortex...
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6247460 |
Vortex tube affixed to a turbocharger, supercharger or intake manifold of an engine
A vortex tube is affixed in a first case to a turbocharger in an engine, in a second case to a supercharger in an engine, or in a third case to the intake manifold of an engine. A vortex tube...
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6196004 |
Method and apparatus for condensing both water and a plurality of hydrocarbons entrained in a pressurized gas stream
A method and apparatus for condensing water and a plurality of hydrocarbons entrained in a pressurized gas stream leaving a separator at a well location. The pressurized gas stream leaves the...
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6128907 |
Cooling and heating device by using gas and heat pipe
In this cooling and heating device by using gas and heat pipe of this invention, which is different from the conventional method, perfectly non-polluting gas, including air, is used as a...
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6082116 |
Vortex pilot gas heater
A vortex heater to transfer a vortex flow's heat flux to a separate gas flow in a system including a vortex tube having a slender tube plugged at the far end, fins attached to the slender tube's...
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5950436 |
Method of beverage cooling/heating on vehicles
A method for the design and production of a vacuum vortex tube's based beverage cooling/heating system to be installed on a vehicle with an internal combustion engine, with a vacuum vortex tube's...
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5937654 |
Vortex tube for snow making
A snow making machine uses a vortex tube to mix the water with the chilled air to make snow. The vortex tube is equipped with fins on is external surface in order to create an extra chilled air jet...
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5911740 |
Method of heat transfer enhancement in a vortex tube
A method of heat transfer enhancement in the vortex tube harnessed in a system including a vortex tube with its slender tube plugged at the far end, fins attached to the slender tube's outer side...
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5860296 |
Method and apparatus for separating air
A method and apparatus for separating air in which a compressed and purified air stream is cooled in a main heat exchanger. Thereafter, the compressed and purified air is separated in a...
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5749231 |
Non-freezing vortex tube
A design of a non-freezing vortex tube to operate with non-dried even wet inlet gas flow in a broad range of a vortex tube's cold fraction value, the non-freezing vortex tube includes a heat...
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5682749 |
Critical temperature control with vortex cooling
Variations in the air outlet temperature of a vortex cooler which varies with the inlet temperature and pressure are maintained within precise limits by a thermocouple electrically connected to a...
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5623829 |
Vortex tube cooling system for solder reflow convection furnaces
A vortex tube cooling system is presented. The cooling system contains one or more vortex tubes connected to a supply of compressed gas, the vortex tubes providing a stream of cold gas which cools...
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5606866 |
Heat exchange unit for self-cooling beverage containers
A portable heat exchange unit for cooling a medium including a vessel adapted to contain a discrete quantity of a compressed or liquefied gas wherein the vessel includes a wall arranged to be...
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5582012 |
Method of natural gas pressure reduction on the city gate stations
A method of natural gas pressure reduction at a City Gate station providing an elimination of the station's energy consumption for gas flow heating together with the creation of a cooling duty for...
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5561982 |
Method for energy separation and utilization in a vortex tube which operates with pressure not exceeding atmospheric pressure
A method of the energy separation and utilization in the Vortex Tube which operates with a pressure not exceeding the atmospheric, the system harnessing this method comprises a Vortex Tube and a...
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5523563 |
Apparatus for controlling the temperature of a near-infrared analyzer
A preferred temperature control strategy was devised to remove heat from the analyzer and control the optical bench temperature continuously at aim. A foil-type RTD temperature detector is fastened...
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5483801 |
Process for extracting vapor from a gas stream
A high efficiency process and apparatus for extracting condensable vapors from a gas stream using a vortex tube expansion. The process comprises partially condensing a raw feed high pressure gas...
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5461868 |
Method and device for gas cooling
A method for gas cooling with the use of a vortex tube into which the gas to be cooled is admitted through a scroll, where the gas is swirled and accelerated, and is expanded at the inlet of the...
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5394703 |
Self-chilling food or beverage container
A portable, self contained heating or cooling apparatus for a beverage can is disclosed. A vortex tube is provides which supplies the needed heating or cooling effect to the beverage in the can.
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5331817 |
Portable self-cooling and self-heating device for food and beverage containers
A portable, self contained heating or cooling apparatus for a beverage can is disclosed. A vortex tube is provided which supplies the needed heating or cooling effect to the beverage in the can.
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5327728 |
Method of designing a vortex tube for energy separation
A method for the design of a vortex tube for energy separation, the vortex tube having a long tube with a diameter Do, a diaphragm closing one end of the tube having a hole with diameter d1 in the...
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5305610 |
Process and apparatus for producing nitrogen and oxygen
The present invention is a separation process for atmospheric gases. In the process, an atmospheric gas stream, for example air, is compressed and may be partly condensed prior to introduction into...
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