Systems and methods for enhanced heat transfer loops
AssigneeSolvcor Technologies LLC
InventorEthan Novek
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Abstract
The present application pertains to processes and systems for enhanced heat transfer. In some embodiments a process is described for removing a portion of a chemical from a heat transfer loop comprising a heat transfer fluid. The process may comprise adding a solvent to the heat transfer fluid in the heat transfer loop; removing at least a portion of the heat transfer fluid from the heat transfer loop; separating said removed heat transfer fluid into a permeate and a retentate using a membrane; and adding at least a portion of the permeate to the heat transfer fluid in the heat transfer loop.
Claims21
A system for managing a heat transfer fluid, the system comprising:
- a heat transfer loop containing a heat transfer fluid comprising a liquid-liquid phase transition composition;
- a source to supply a reagent to the heat transfer loop, wherein said source is in fluid communication with the heat transfer loop, wherein the source contains the reagent, and wherein the reagent comprises a chemical, a solvent, or a combination thereof;
- a flow controller positioned between the source and the heat transfer loop, the flow controller regulating a transfer of the reagent into the heat transfer fluid;
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- a monitor measuring at least one parameter indicative of a thermo-physical property of the heat transfer fluid, wherein the thermo-physical property is an enthalpy of liquid-liquid phase transition, an effective heat capacity, a heat capacity rate, a thermal conductivity, a concentration, or a liquid-liquid phase transition temperature;
- wherein the liquid-liquid phase transition composition comprises a composition that when it is within a liquid-liquid phase transition temperature range experiences a change in the number of liquid phases from comprising a single liquid phase to comprising two or more liquid phases or from comprising two or more liquid phases to comprising a single liquid phase.
A process comprising:
- adding a reagent to a liquid-liquid phase transition heat transfer fluid in a heat transfer loop;
- measuring one or more or a combination of at least one parameter indicative of a thermal property of the heat transfer fluid, wherein the thermal property is enthalpy of liquid-liquid phase transition, or the effective heat capacity, or heat capacity rate, or liquid-liquid phase transition temperature, or any combination thereof;
- wherein the heat transfer fluid comprises a liquid-liquid phase transition fluid and the reagent comprises a chemical, a solvent, or any combination thereof;
- wherein the liquid-liquid phase transition composition comprises a composition that when it is within a liquid-liquid phase transition temperature range experiences a change in the number of liquid phases from comprising a single liquid phase to comprising two or more liquid phases or from comprising two or more liquid phases to comprising a single liquid phase.
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