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Sorption device
OwnerBengt Ebbesoninventor
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A sorption device for use in a cooling plant consists of a plurality of elongated sorption containers, which along part of their length are filled with sorbents, and in this part constitute a digester adsorber zone, and where the other part of their length constitutes a condensor evaporator zone. The sorption containers rotate in two coaxial housings on a circular path, and with the digester adsorber element (16) they are disposed in the one housing (11), and with the condensor evaporator element (30) in the other housing. The housing (11) enclosing the condensor adsorber elements (16) only has one inlet (13) and one outlet (14) for the gaseous heat transfer medium, so that on its flow path through the housing the heat transfer medium both withdraws heat from the digester adsorber elements (16) and supplies heat thereto. The arrangement ensures a particularly favorable energetic efficiency. When the device is used as air cooling device in air-conditioning systems a drying of the air to be cooled can be effected, utilizing the heat dissipated from the condensor evaporator region.
A sorption device for use in a cooling system, said sorption device comprising a plurality of elongated sorption containers each having along a part of its length a digester adsorber element containing sorbents and, along another part of its length, a condenser evaporator element, coaxial first and second housings (11,12) in which the sorption containers are arranged with the digester adsorber elements disposed in the first housing (11) and the condenser evaporator elements disposed in the second housing (12), means for axially rotating said sorption containers on a circular path, means for supplying a gaseous heat transfer medium to outer surfaces of the sorption containers in each of the housings, and means (29) for heating the gaseous heat transfer medium in the first housing (11), wherein said first housing (11) has only one inlet (13) and one outlet (14) for the gaseous heat transfer medium and said heat transfer medium, on its flow path through the first housing, both withdraws heat from the digester adsorber elements (16) and supplies heat thereto.
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