Convection current pumping called, series convection pump

Patent · Tue Mar 03 00:00:00 EST 1981

OSTI ID:6352270

O'hare, L R

An array of several convection tubes are positioned in a series configuration to provide the equivalent of a very tall convection current generating tower, the pressure and fluid flow of the array thereby becoming capable of significant pressures such as the pressures necessary to move solar heated air into the confines of a rock storage area, the pressure increases of this array being achieved by the additive effects of connecting heated and cooled convecting columns together alternately in such a way that the output of one is connected to the input of another.

• Assignee: IFI; EDB-81-103974
• Patent Number(s): US 4253801
• OSTI ID: 6352270
• Resource Relation: Patent File Date: Filed date 9 Jun 1977
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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