Cooling systems having inline supplemental ram air heat exchangers
AssigneeGoodrich Corporation
InventorMark Long Whittum
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Abstract
A cooling system for a vehicle can include a coolant loop having a coolant therein and configured to be in thermal communication with a heat load to receive heat from the heat load, a refrigeration system comprising an evaporator in thermal communication with the coolant loop to receive heat from the coolant loop, and a condenser configured to be in thermal communication with ram air to remove heat from the refrigeration system, an inline ram air heat exchanger disposed in a ram air stream of the condenser, and a ram air cooling branch in fluid communication with the coolant loop and configured to direct coolant to the ram air heat exchanger to cool the coolant.
Claims15
A cooling system for a vehicle, comprising:
- a coolant loop having a coolant therein and configured to be in thermal communication with a heat load to receive heat from the heat load;
- a refrigeration system comprising an evaporator in thermal communication with the coolant loop to receive heat from the coolant loop, and a condenser configured to be in thermal communication with ram air to remove heat from the refrigeration system;
- an inline ram air heat exchanger disposed in a ram air stream of the condenser;
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- a ram air cooling branch in fluid communication with the coolant loop and configured to direct coolant to the ram air heat exchanger to cool the coolant.
The system of claim 17, wherein the controller is configured to close the valve when ram air temperature is higher than the coolant temperature to prevent heat addition to the coolant from the ram air.
A method, comprising:
- allowing a coolant to flow from a coolant loop to a ram air heat exchanger that is in a ram air stream of a ram air cooled condenser of a refrigeration system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.