Energy recovery ventilator
Abstract
An energy recovery heat exchanger (100) includes a housing (102). The housing has a first flowpath (144) from a first inlet (104) to a first outlet (106). The housing has a second flowpath (146) from a second inlet (108) to a second outlet (110). Either of two cores may be in an operative position in the housing. Each core has a number of first passageways having open first and second ends and closed first and second sides. Each core has a number of second such passageways interspersed with the first passageways. The ends of the second passageways are aligned with the sides of the first passageways and vice versa. A number of heat transfer member sections separate adjacent ones of the first and second passageways. An actuator is coupled to the carrier to shift the cores between first and second conditions. In the first condition, the first core (20) is in the operative position and the second core (220) is not. In the second condition, the second core is in the operative position and the first core is not. When a core is in the operative position, its first passageways are along the first flowpath and the second passageways aremore »
- Inventors:
- Issue Date:
- Research Org.:
- Carrier Corporation, Farmington, CT (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1185296
- Patent Number(s):
- 9062890
- Application Number:
- 13/002,866
- Assignee:
- Carrier Corporation (Farmington, CT)
- Patent Classifications (CPCs):
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F - MECHANICAL ENGINEERING F24 - HEATING F24F - AIR-CONDITIONING
F - MECHANICAL ENGINEERING F28 - HEAT EXCHANGE IN GENERAL F28D - HEAT-EXCHANGE APPARATUS, NOT PROVIDED FOR IN ANOTHER SUBCLASS, IN WHICH THE HEAT-EXCHANGE MEDIA DO NOT COME INTO DIRECT CONTACT
- DOE Contract Number:
- FC26-01NT41254
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Resource Relation:
- Patent File Date: 2009 Jul 01
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION; 42 ENGINEERING
Citation Formats
Benoit, Jeffrey T., Dobbs, Gregory M., and Lemcoff, Norberto O. Energy recovery ventilator. United States: N. p., 2015.
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Benoit, Jeffrey T., Dobbs, Gregory M., & Lemcoff, Norberto O. Energy recovery ventilator. United States.
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"Energy recovery ventilator". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1185296.
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abstractNote = {An energy recovery heat exchanger (100) includes a housing (102). The housing has a first flowpath (144) from a first inlet (104) to a first outlet (106). The housing has a second flowpath (146) from a second inlet (108) to a second outlet (110). Either of two cores may be in an operative position in the housing. Each core has a number of first passageways having open first and second ends and closed first and second sides. Each core has a number of second such passageways interspersed with the first passageways. The ends of the second passageways are aligned with the sides of the first passageways and vice versa. A number of heat transfer member sections separate adjacent ones of the first and second passageways. An actuator is coupled to the carrier to shift the cores between first and second conditions. In the first condition, the first core (20) is in the operative position and the second core (220) is not. In the second condition, the second core is in the operative position and the first core is not. When a core is in the operative position, its first passageways are along the first flowpath and the second passageways are along the second flowpath.},
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