Galley cooler with latent heat recovery
AssigneeB/E Aerospace, Inc.
InventorsAbbas A. Alahyari, Yasmin Khakpour
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Abstract
A galley cooler is disclosed herein. The galley cooler includes a cooling system and a delivery system. The cooling system includes a hot side and a cold side. The hot side includes a hot side inlet. The cold side is configured to, in response to cooling ambient air entering the cooling system on the hot side via the hot-side inlet, condense moist air into liquid water on the cold side. The delivery system delivers the condensed liquid water to the hot side of the cooling system to pre-cool the ambient air via evaporative cooling.
Claims10
A galley cooler, comprising:
- a cooling system, the cooling system comprising:
- a hot side, wherein the hot side comprises a hot-side inlet;
- and
- a cold side configured to, in response to cooling ambient air entering the cooling system on the hot side via the hot-side inlet, condense moist air into liquid water on the cold side;
- a delivery system, wherein the delivery system delivers the condensed liquid water to the hot side of the cooling system to pre-cool the ambient air via evaporative cooling;
- and
- an inlet duct,
- wherein the inlet duct is coupled to the hot-side inlet,
- wherein the inlet duct comprises an outer lining,
- wherein the condensed liquid water soaks the outer lining, and
- wherein the ambient air passing through the inlet duct is pre-cooled by evaporating the condensed liquid water from the outer lining.
A galley cooler, comprising:
- a cooling system, the cooling system comprising:
- a hot side, wherein the hot side comprises a hot-side inlet;
- and
- a cold side configured to, in response to cooling ambient air entering the cooling system on the hot side via the hot-side inlet, condense moist air into liquid water on the cold side;
- a delivery system, wherein the delivery system delivers the condensed liquid water to the hot side of the cooling system to pre-cool the ambient air via evaporative cooling;
- an inlet duct, wherein the inlet duct is coupled to the hot-side inlet;
- and
- a porous inlet heat exchanger element,
- wherein the porous inlet heat exchanger element is integrated in-line with the inlet duct coupled to the hot-side inlet, and
- wherein the ambient air passing through the porous inlet heat exchanger element is pre-cooled by evaporating the condensed liquid water from the porous inlet heat exchanger element.
A galley cooler, comprising:
- a cooling system, the cooling system comprising:
- a hot side, wherein the hot side comprises a hot-side inlet;
- and
- a cold side configured to, in response to cooling ambient air entering the cooling system on the hot side via the hot-side inlet, condense moist air into liquid water on the cold side;
- and
- a delivery system, wherein the delivery system delivers the condensed liquid water to the hot side of the cooling system to pre-cool the ambient air via evaporative cooling,
- wherein the delivery system delivers the condensed liquid water directly to an inlet fan of the hot-side inlet thereby pre-cooling the ambient air.
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