Apparatus for storing cooling capacity

Patent · Tue Jan 26 00:00:00 EST 1988

OSTI ID:5334497

Ames, D A

This patent describes an apparatus for storing the cooling capacity of a chilled liquid to provide cooled liquid to a building having heat exchange means therein, comprising the combination of a cooling tower for providing liquid at a temperature related to the dry and wet bulb temperatures of the ambient air, a chiller including a condenser and chiller conduit means for transporting liquid between the cooling tower and the condenser to cool the latter, building conduit means for transporting liquid between the cooling tower and the building heat exchange means to cool the building, a storage tank containing packages of eutectoid salt compositions and tank conduit means for transporting liquid between the tank and the cooling tower, and valve means in the tank conduit means and the chiller conduit means for alternatively directing liquid between the cooling tower and the condenser of the chiller to cool the condenser, and between the cooling tower and the tank to store coolness in the eutectoid salt packages.

• Assignee: Transphase Systems, Inc., Huntington Beach, CA
• Patent Number(s): US 4720984
• OSTI ID: 5334497
• Resource Relation: Patent File Date: Filed date 23 May 1986
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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DUCTS
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