Lubricant reservoir, compressor system and heat pump
AssigneeSPH Sustainable Process Heat GmbH
InventorsTim Hamacher, Andreas Mück
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Abstract
A lubricant reservoir for a compressor, which can be part of a system of a heat pump, in particular, a high-temperature heat pump, having a holding chamber for lubricants with at least one holding-chamber cladding element at least partially outwardly limiting the holding chamber, and a temperature controller is integrated into the holding-chamber cladding element and/or arranged on it, wherein a heating and/or cooling medium can flow through the temperature controller, which may achieve an improved life cycle assessment in such a lubricant reservoir compared to the known systems, reduce the production or assembly effort, and enable lubricant cooling and lubricant heating.
Claims3
An apparatus comprising:
- a heat pump comprising a compressor system for a heat pump including
- a lubricant reservoir comprising
- a holding-chamber cladding at least partially defining a holding chamber configured to contain lubricant therein, wherein the holding-chamber cladding comprises a holding-chamber floor and a holding-chamber wall, wherein the holding chamber is formed in a housing part of a compressor system housing accommodating a compressor of the compressor system;
- and
- temperature controller the holding-chamber floor, wherein the temperature controller is configured to receive and flow therethrough a heating and/or cooling medium;
- wherein the temperature controller defines a plurality of channels, wherein each of the plurality of channels projects at least partially into the holding chamber and is separated from the holding chamber by a channel wall, wherein the channels are configured to receive and flow therethrough the heating and/or cooling medium, and
- wherein the plurality of channels are (i) flow-connected to one another or (ii) are separated from each other with regard to flow;
- and
- at least one supply and discharge flow-connected or flow-connectable to the temperature controller and configured to supply the temperature controller with (i) a heating or cooling medium supplied to or discharged from the heat pump or (ii) an external heating or cooling medium.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.