Reefer container
AssigneeMitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
InventorsRyo Takata, Kazuki Yoshida
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Abstract
A reefer container configured to cool a gas inside a container body, including: the container body; a circulation line with a suction port and a blowout port each of which is disposed inside the container body; a compressor disposed in the circulation line and configured to compress the gas suctioned from inside the container body to the circulation line through the suction port; a heat exchanger disposed in the circulation line and configured to cool the gas compressed in the compressor; an expander disposed in the circulation line and configured to expand the gas cooled in the heat exchanger; and at least one separation device disposed in the circulation line and configured to separate some of components from the gas compressed in the compressor.
Claims8
A reefer container configured to cool a gas inside a container body, comprising:
- the container body;
- a circulation line with a suction port and a blowout port each of which is disposed inside the container body;
- a compressor disposed in the circulation line and configured to compress the gas suctioned from inside the container body to the circulation line through the suction port;
- a heat exchanger disposed in the circulation line and configured to cool the gas compressed in the compressor;
- an expander disposed in the circulation line and configured to expand the gas cooled in the heat exchanger;
- and
- at least one separation device disposed in the circulation line and configured to separate some of components from the gas compressed in the compressor,
- wherein the at least one separation device includes an oxygen separator configured to separate oxygen from the gas compressed in the compressor, and
- wherein the reefer container further comprises:
- a buffer tank configured to store the oxygen separated from the gas in the oxygen separator;
- an oxygen recovery line for directing to the buffer tank the oxygen separated from the gas in the oxygen separator;
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- an oxygen return line for returning the oxygen stored in the buffer tank to inside the container body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.