Supplement thermal management system cooling using thermoelectric cooling
AssigneeRolls-Royce North American Technologies Inc.
InventorsKeith D. Noderer, Eric S. Donovan
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Abstract
Systems and methods to increase the recharge rate of a supplemental cooling system are provided. The system may include a primary cooling system configured to cool a thermal load, a supplemental cooling system, and a thermoelectric cooling apparatus. The thermoelectric cooling apparatus may assist the primary cooling system in recharging the supplemental cooling system in response to the supplemental cooling system operating in a recharge state, to the availability of electrical capacity, and to one or more operating parameters of the primary cooling system falling outside a predetermined range, wherein the operating parameter affects a cooling capacity of the primary cooling system.
Claims20
A system comprising:
- a primary cooling system configured to cool a thermal load;
- a supplemental cooling system configured to supplement the primary cooling system and cool the thermal load, the primary cooling system configured to supply cooling to the supplemental cooling system in response to an operation of the supplemental cooling system in a recharge state;
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- a thermoelectric cooling apparatus configured to supply cooling to the supplemental cooling system in response to the operation of the supplemental cooling system in the recharge state, to an availability of electricity for the thermoelectric cooling apparatus, and to an operating parameter of the primary cooling system falling outside a predetermined range, wherein the operating parameter affects a cooling capacity of the primary cooling system.
A method comprising:
- measuring a value of an operating parameter that affects a cooling capacity of the primary cooling system;
- determining that the value is outside of a predetermined operating range;
- determining a supplemental cooling system is operating in a recharge state;
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- cooling a supplemental cooling system with the thermoelectric cooling apparatus in response to the supplemental cooling system operating in the recharge state, to an availability of electricity for the thermoelectric cooling apparatus, and to the determining that the value is outside of the predetermined operating range.
A system comprising:
- a primary cooling system configured to cool a thermal load;
- a supplemental cooling system configured to provide cooling which supplements the primary cooling system, the primary cooling system configured to supply cooling to the supplemental cooling system in response to an operation of the supplemental cooling system in a recharge state;
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- a thermoelectric cooling apparatus configured to cool an amount of heat received from the thermal load in response to an availability of electricity for the thermoelectric cooling apparatus and to suspending operation of the primary cooling system in response to the thermal load being below a thermal load threshold.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.