Climate control system and associated methods
OwnerPeng Fan, Zhigang Azk Fang +2inventors
InventorsPeng Fan, Zhigang Azk Fang, Ken Udell, Chengshang Zhou
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Abstract
A climate control system is described that can include a thermal battery (100) with a heating bed (110) and cooling bed (120) and a conditioned air manifold adapted to direct heat transfer fluid across at least one of the heating bed (110) and the cooling bed (120) to condition inlet air. A method of controlling climate in an enclosure can be provided by contemporaneously generating a heating effect and a cooling effect from a reversible thermo chemical reaction and selectively directing thermal flows from a reversible thermo chemical reaction to the enclosure.
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A climate control system comprising:
- a thermal battery including
- at least one heating bed including a compacted metal salt;
- at least one cooling bed including a volatile polar compound, wherein the at least one heating bed and at least one cooling bed are fluidly connected to one another and the compacted metal salt and the volatile polar compound form a reversible thermochemical reaction system;
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- a flow control mechanism adapted to selectively allow fluid to flow between the at least one heating bed and the at least one cooling bed to control reaction of the reversible thermochemical reaction system;
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- a heat exchange module thermally associated with each of the at least one heating bed and the at least one cooling bed and adapted to condition an inlet air.
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A method of controlling climate in an enclosure comprising:
- contemporaneously generating a heating effect and a cooling effect from a reversible thermochemical reaction having an endothermic reaction and a complimentary exothermic reaction which are thermally remote from one another and fluidly connected via a selectively controllable flow control;
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- selectively directing thermal flows from the reversible thermochemical reaction to increase or decrease a temperature within the enclosure.
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