Acoustical heat pumping engine

Patent · 16 August 1983

OSTI ID:864660

Wheatley, John C ^[1]; Swift, Gregory W ^[1]; Migliori, Albert ^[2]

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1. Los Alamos, NM
2. Santa Fe, NM

The disclosure is directed to an acoustical heat pumping engine without moving seals. A tubular housing holds a compressible fluid capable of supporting an acoustical standing wave. An acoustical driver is disposed at one end of the housing and the other end is capped. A second thermodynamic medium is disposed in the housing near to but spaced from the capped end. Heat is pumped along the second thermodynamic medium toward the capped end as a consequence both of the pressure oscillation due to the driver and imperfect thermal contact between the fluid and the second thermodynamic medium.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-36
• Assignee: Wheatley, John C. (Los Alamos, NM);Swift, Gregory W. (Los Alamos, NM);Migliori, Albert (Santa Fe, NM)
• Patent Number(s): US 4398398
• Application Number: 06/292,979
• OSTI ID: 864660
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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