Method for operating an appliance comprising at least one drying cycle
AssigneeBSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgerate GmbH
InventorsEgbert Classen, Helmut Jerg, Kai Paintner
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Abstract
A method for operating an appliance includes at least one drying cycle, which makes it possible to operate appliances comprising at least one drying cycle as economically as possible while efficiently drying the material that is to be dried and keeping the energy consumption associated therewith as low as possible. Air contained in a processing space is conducted out of and back into the processing space during the drying cycle via a conduit system into which both ends of a heat tube protrude. The air is cooled while being directed through the conduit system such that humidity is removed therefrom, whereupon the air is heated again.
Claims7
1-6. (canceled)
A method for operating an appliance, comprising:
- subjecting items retained in the appliance to a drying step after the items have undergone a treatment step as a result of which moisture remains on the items, the step of drying including conducting air from a treatment chamber via a conduit system in which both ends of at least one heat pipe protrude, thereafter conducting the air through the at least one heat pipe, and recirculating the air back to the treatment chamber, whereupon, during the passage of the air between its exit of the treatment chamber and its recirculation to the treatment chamber, the air is cooled, moisture is removed from the air, and the air is subsequently reheated.
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