Electrically powered fluid heater including a coreless transformer and an electrically conductive jacket
AssigneeTransflux Holdings Limited
InventorsRoss J. H. Walker, Patrick S. Bodger
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Abstract
A main-frequency electrically powered fluid heater which includes a coreless transformer and an electrically conductive jacket through which flows the fluid to be heated; the coreless transformer comprises a primary winding electrically insulated from the jacket but at least partially surrounding it, and a secondary winding arranged so as to be linked by magnetic flux from the primary winding; secondary winding being electrically insulated from the primary winding, but electrically connected to the jacket, so that the jacket is heated both by resistance heating and by eddy current heating.
Claims11
A mains-frequency electrically powered fluid heater characterised in that said heater includes a coreless transformer and an electrically conductive jacket through which fluid to be heated flows in use;
- said coreless transformer comprising:
- a primary winding of electrically conductive material, arranged to at least partially surround said jacket, but electrically insulated therefrom;
- a secondary winding of electrically conductive material arranged relative to the primary winding such that magnetic flux generated by an alternating electrical current flowing in said primary winding in use links said secondary winding and induces a voltage therein;
- said secondary winding being electrically insulated from said primary winding, but electrically connected to the jacket such that said voltage induced in said secondary winding in use gives rise to a current flowing through said jacket which heats said jacket by resistance heating, said jacket also being heated by eddy currents induced therein by the primary winding.
A mains-frequency electrically powered fluid heater which includes a coreless transformer and a jacket of high-resistance electrically conductive material, through which fluid to be heated flows in use;
- said coreless transformer comprising:
- a primary winding of low-resistance electrically conductive material, wound around a major part of the length of the jacket, but electrically insulated therefrom;
- a tubular secondary winding of low-resistance electrically conductive material wound around the primary winding, said secondary winding being electrically insulated from said primary winding but electrically connected to the jacket such that the voltage induced in use in the secondary winding by a current flowing in the primary winding gives rise to a current flowing through said jacket which heats said jacket by resistance heating, said jacket also being heated by eddy current induced therein by the primary winding;
- fluid to be heated being arranged to flow through said secondary winding before or after flowing through said jacket.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.