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Reversible latent heat storage method, and reversible latent heat accumulator

Patent ·
OSTI ID:5943557
The invention discloses a system for utilizing latent heat stored in a crystallizable liquid heat storage medium subject to super-cooling, wherein the storage medium is continuously circulated past a heat exchanger positioned in the upper portion of an enclosed space containing a body of such storage medium to effect super-cooling thereof, then past a bed of seed crystals in the lower portion of such space to effect partial crystallization thereof, and then back past the heat exchanger.
Assignee:
US Philips Corp.
Patent Number(s):
US 4153105
OSTI ID:
5943557
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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