Phase change material-coated heat exchange tubes
AssigneeHenkel AG & Co. KGaA
InventorsShabbir Attarwala, Ikpreet Grover, Timothy Graver, Jesse Davis, Joseph B. Schulz
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Abstract
Disclosed herein is a hollow tube comprising two ends, one end adapted to receive a fluid and the other end adapted to discharge the fluid, where the hollow tube has an interior surface and an exterior surface and a curable composition is disposed about at least a portion of the exterior surface of the hollow tube, where the curable composition comprises before cure: a curable component, a thermally conductive component, a phase change material, and a cure system.
Claims21
A hollow tube comprising two ends, one end adapted to receive a fluid and the other end adapted to discharge the fluid, wherein the hollow tube has an interior surface and an exterior surface, wherein a composition is disposed as a coating about at least a portion of the exterior surface of the hollow tube, wherein the composition comprises either:
- A.
- i) a curable component;
- ii) a thermally conductive component;
- iii) a phase change material;
- and
- iv) a cure system;
- or
- B.
- i) a binder component;
- ii) a thermally conductive component;
- iii) a phase change material;
- and
- iv) water;
- wherein the composition modulates the temperature an end user experiences from contact with the hollow tube while the hollow tube is in use.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.