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US 2013/0239598 A1Published application
Aircraft environmental control system with conditioned heat sink
AssigneeAirbus Operations GmbH
InventorJan Barkowsky
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Abstract
An air conditioning system for an aircraft includes at least one air conditioning pack which for the purpose of heat dissipation can be connected to at least one cooling air inlet of the aircraft and is designed to cool air and to introduce it at a cabin pressure into a passenger cabin of the aircraft. A separately operable cooling device is designed to cool the ambient air flowing into the cooling air inlet.
Claims10
An air conditioning system for an aircraft, comprising:
- at least one air conditioning pack connectable to at least one cooling air inlet of the aircraft for heat dissipation and configured to cool air and to introduce it at a cabin pressure into a passenger cabin of the aircraft, and
- at least one cooling deviceequipped to cool the ambient air flowing into the cooling air inlet, wherein the cooling device is operable separately of the air conditioning pack.
A method for cooling incoming cabin air for a passenger cabin of an aircraft, comprising:
- cooling ambient air supplied from the outside with the use of a cooling device;
- and
- cooling air with the use of an air conditioning pack giving off heat to the cooled ambient air.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.