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Method for charging and discharging a latent-heat storage medium and heat storage

Patent ·
OSTI ID:6440790
A heat storage unit is disclosed having a vertically cylindrical container accommodating a latent-heat storage medium and a conduit introducing a heat carrier liquid not miscible with the medium at the bottom of the container. The conduit has an exit nozzle which is located outside the axial center of the cylinder and nearly perpendicular to the radius of the cylinder so that the heat carrier liquid enters the cylinder at the bottom in a direction to cause the heat storage melt to be set into a rotary motion.
Assignee:
Stiebel Eltron Gmbh and Co Kg (Germany, Federal Republic Of)
Patent Number(s):
US 4365662
OSTI ID:
6440790
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English