System and method for monitoring cooling system
AssigneeSouthwest Medical Resources, Inc.
InventorMichael Shane McCormack
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Abstract
An apparatus for monitoring a cooling system. In some embodiments, the cooling system includes a chiller and a heat exchange process connected to the chiller by a coolant supply line and a coolant return line, and the apparatus includes a first temperature sensor, for measuring a coolant temperature in the coolant supply line, and a second temperature sensor, for measuring a coolant temperature in the coolant return line.
Claims15
An apparatus for monitoring a cooling system comprising a chiller and a heat exchange process connected to the chiller by a coolant supply line and by a coolant return line, the apparatus comprising:
- a first temperature sensor, for measuring a coolant temperature in the coolant supply line;
- a second temperature sensor, for measuring a coolant temperature in the coolant return line;
- and
- a readout circuit, for monitoring respective temperatures sensed by the first temperature sensor and the second temperature sensor,
- wherein:
- the coolant return line is configured to carry coolant from the heat exchange process to the chiller,
- the readout circuit comprises a processing circuit configured to:
- perform a first temperature sensing operation with the first temperature sensor, during an interval of time;
- perform a second temperature sensing operation with the second temperature sensor, during the interval of time;
- and
- display, on a display, a first temperature value and a second temperature value, and
- the first temperature value is a difference between a temperature measured in the first temperature sensing operation, and a temperature measured in the second temperature sensing operation.
An apparatus for monitoring a cooling system comprising a chiller and a heat exchange process connected to the chiller by a coolant supply line and a coolant return line, the apparatus comprising:
- a first temperature sensor, secured to the coolant supply line;
- a second temperature sensor, secured to the coolant return line;
- a processing circuit,
- the processing circuit being configured to:
- perform a first temperature sensing operation with the first temperature sensor, during an interval of time;
- perform a second temperature sensing operation with the second temperature sensor, during the interval of time;
- and
- to display, on a display:
- a difference between a temperature measured in the first temperature sensing operation and a temperature measured in the second temperature sensing operation, and
- the temperature measured in the first temperature sensing operation,
- wherein the coolant return line is configured to carry coolant from the heat exchange process to the chiller.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.