Thermodynamic boiler with thermal compressor
AssigneeBoostheat
InventorJean-Marc Joffroy
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Abstract
A thermodynamic boiler for exchanging (providing or drawing) heat with a heating circuit includes a thermal compressor. The thermal compressor acts on a compressible fluid and includes at least one compression stage, with an alternating bi-directional piston separating a first chamber and a second chamber, and a first fuel burner forming a heat source coupled to the first chamber. The thermal compressor uses the heating circuit as a cold source coupled to the second chamber and forms the compression function of a reversible heat pump type loop.
Claims16
A thermodynamic boiler for exchanging heat with a heating circuit, the boiler comprising:
- a compressible fluid circuit forming part of a reversible heat pump loop;
- a thermal compressor, the thermal compressor acting on a compressible fluid and comprising a first compression stage, with an alternating bi-directional piston separating a first chamber and a second chamber, and a first fuel burner forming a heat source coupled to the first chamber, the thermal compressor forming a compression function of the reversible heat pump loop, the first and second chambers being fluidly connected between each other through a regenerator with a to-and-fro fluid movement;
- a main exchanger forming a thermal interface between the compressible fluid circuit and the heating circuit;
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- at least a portion of the heating circuit, wherein the second chamber of the compressor is cooled by a return branch of the at least the portion of the heating circuit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.