Lubricant reservoir, compressor system and heat pump
AssigneeSPH Sustainable Process Heat GmbH
InventorsTim Hamacher, Andreas Mück
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Abstract
A lubricant reservoir for a compressor, which can be part of a system of a heat pump, in particular, a high-temperature heat pump, having a holding chamber for lubricants with at least one holding-chamber cladding element at least partially outwardly limiting the holding chamber, and a temperature controller is integrated into the holding-chamber cladding element and/or arranged on it, wherein a heating and/or cooling medium can flow through the temperature controller, which may achieve an improved life cycle assessment in such a lubricant reservoir compared to the known systems, reduce the production or assembly effort, and enable lubricant cooling and lubricant heating.
Claims20
A lubricant reservoir for a compressor system of a heat pump comprising:
- at least one holding-chamber cladding at least partially defining a holding chamber configured to contain lubricant therein;
- and
- at least one temperature controller integrated into at least one of the at least one holding-chamber cladding and/or arranged thereon, wherein the at least one temperature controller is configured to receive and flow therethrough heating and/or cooling medium.
A compressor system for a heat pump, the compressor system comprising a lubricant reservoir comprising
- at least one holding-chamber cladding at least partially defining a holding chamber configured to contain lubricant therein;
- and
- at least one temperature controller integrated into at least one of the at least one holding-chamber cladding and/or arranged thereon, wherein the at least one temperature controller is configured to receive and flow therethrough a heating and/or cooling medium.
A heat pump comprising:
- a compressor system for a heat pump including a lubricant reservoir comprising
- at least one holding-chamber cladding at least partially defining a holding chamber configured to contain lubricant therein;
- and
- at least one temperature controller integrated into at least one of the at least one holding-chamber cladding and/or arranged thereon, wherein the at least one temperature controller is configured to receive and flow therethrough a heating and/or cooling medium;
- and
- at least one supply and discharge flow-connected or flow-connectable to the at least one temperature controller and configured to supply the at least one temperature controller with (i) a heating or cooling medium supplied to or discharged from the heat pump or (ii) an external heating or cooling medium.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.