Vapor supply device and drying system
AssigneeIHI Corporation
InventorToru ISHII
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Abstract
A vapor supply device includes a sunlight-condensing heat collection unit which condenses sunlight and collects heat to obtain thermal energy, a heat-storage and heat-exchange unit which heats a heat-storage agent stored therein using the thermal energy obtained in the sunlight-condensing heat collection unit and stores thermal energy in the heat-storage agent, and heats a supply medium using the thermal energy stored in the heat-storage agent, and a vapor supply unit which supplies a vapor of the supply medium obtained by heating the supply medium in the heat-storage and heat-exchange unit.
Claims9
A vapor supply device comprising:
- a sunlight-condensing heat collection unit which condenses sunlight and collects heat to obtain thermal energy;
- a heat-storage and heat-exchange unit which heats a heat-storage agent stored therein using the thermal energy obtained in the sunlight-condensing heat collection unit and stores thermal energy in the heat-storage agent, and heats a supply medium using the thermal energy stored in the heat-storage agent;
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- a vapor supply unit which supplies a vapor of the supply medium obtained by heating the supply medium in the heat-storage and heat-exchange unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.