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US 2008/0156014 A1Published application
Condenser refrigerant distribution
AssigneeJohnson Controls Technology Company
InventorsWilliam L. Kopko, Jose Ruel Yalung De La Cruz, Glenn Eugene Nickey
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Abstract
A flow regulator being disposed in at least one of the outlets of a condenser to regulate the fluid flow in the condenser. The condenser has at least two fluid flow paths and an air flow drawn through the condenser by a condenser fan. The flow regulator regulates the fluid flow to substantially equalize the temperature of the fluid flow in the at least two fluid paths and to provide more efficient cooling of the fluid in the fluid flow paths.
Claims19
An HVAC&R system comprising:
- a compressor, a condenser, an evaporator, and an expansion valve connected in a closed refrigerant loop;
- the condenser further comprising:
- at least two fluid flow paths being cooled by air flow forced through the condenser by at least one condenser fan, the at least two fluid flow paths each having an inlet and an outlet and a fluid flow between the inlet and the outlet, and the at least two fluid flow paths having an air flow for cooling the fluid in the at least two fluid flow paths, the air flow being variable across the condenser;
- at least one flow regulator being disposed in at least one outlet to regulate at least one fluid flow in response to the variable air flow and to regulate the fluid flow in the at least two flow paths to achieve a substantially equal fluid temperature.
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A condenser comprising:
- at least two fluid flow paths being cooled by air flow drawn through the condenser by at least one condenser fan, the at least two fluid flow paths having an inlet and an outlet and a fluid flow between the inlet and the outlet, and the at least two fluid flow paths having an air flow for cooling the fluid in the at least two fluid flow paths, the air flow being variable across the condenser;
- at least one flow regulator being disposed in at least one outlet to regulate at least one fluid flow in response to the variable air flow and to regulate the fluid flow in the at least two flow paths to achieve a substantially equal fluid temperature.
A condenser comprising:
- a multichannel heat exchanger;
- at least two fluid flow paths in the multichannel heat exchanger being cooled by air flow drawn through the condenser by at least one condenser fan, the at least two fluid flow paths having an inlet and an outlet and a fluid flow between the inlet and the outlet, and the at least two fluid flow paths having an air flow for cooling the fluid in the at least two fluid flow paths, the air flow being variable across the condenser;
- at least one flow regulator being disposed in at least one outlet to regulate at least one fluid flow in response to the variable air flow and to regulate the fluid flow in the at least two flow paths to achieve a substantially equal fluid temperature.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.