Device For Providing A Cooled Or Heated Liquid Onboard An Aircraft
AssigneeAirbus Deutschland GmbH
InventorsMatthias Witschke, Wolfgang Ebigt, Marco Mundt, Peter Detjen
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Abstract
A device for providing a cooled or heated liquid, in particular cooled drinking water comprises a reservoir for receiving the liquid to be cooled or to be heated. The reservoir is thermally coupled with a conduit through which a cooling medium or a heat transfer medium may flow and comprises a first as well as a second circulation connection, with the first circulation connection being connected with the second circulation connection via a circulation conduit.
Claims10
1-9. (canceled)
An aircraft liquid provisioning device (10) for providing a cooled or heated liquid onboard an aircraft, which comprises a reservoir (12) provided with a first as well as a second circulation connection (20, 22), with the first circulation connection (20) being connected with the second circulation connection (22) via a circulation conduit (24),
- characterised in that the reservoir (12) receives the liquid to be cooled or to be heated and is thermally coupled with a conduit (16) through which a cooling medium or a heat transfer medium may flow, which extends essentially helically about the reservoir (12) and in that the second circulation connection (22) is disposed in a first region of the reservoir (12) containing liquid which has a lower temperature than liquid in a second region of the reservoir (12), wherein the first circulation connection (20) is disposed in the second region of the reservoir (12).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.