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Title: Apparatus for storing cooling capacity

Abstract

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.

Inventors:
Publication Date:
OSTI Identifier:
5334497
Patent Number(s):
US 4720984
Assignee:
Transphase Systems, Inc., Huntington Beach, CA
Resource Type:
Patent
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: Filed date 23 May 1986
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION; CONDENSER COOLING SYSTEMS; DESIGN; CHLORIDES; CONDENSERS; COOLANTS; COOLING TOWERS; DUCTS; EUTECTOIDS; HEAT EXCHANGERS; LIQUID FLOW; TANKS; WORKING FLUIDS; AUXILIARY SYSTEMS; AUXILIARY WATER SYSTEMS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; CONTAINERS; COOLING SYSTEMS; ENERGY SYSTEMS; FLUID FLOW; FLUIDS; HALIDES; HALOGEN COMPOUNDS; MECHANICAL STRUCTURES; TOWERS; 320106* - Energy Conservation, Consumption, & Utilization- Building Equipment- (1987-)

Citation Formats

Ames, D A. Apparatus for storing cooling capacity. United States: N. p., 1988. Web.
Ames, D A. Apparatus for storing cooling capacity. United States.
Ames, D A. 1988. "Apparatus for storing cooling capacity". United States.
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abstractNote = {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.},
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year = {Tue Jan 26 00:00:00 EST 1988},
month = {Tue Jan 26 00:00:00 EST 1988}
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