Joule-Thomson effect air conditioner using air as the refrigerant

An air conditioning system, comprising:

• a compressor for generating compressed air;
• an air delivery system coupled to said compressor for receiving said compressed air, said air delivery system including a plurality of Joule-Thomson orifices wherein said compressed air flows through selected ones of said plurality of Joule-Thomson orifices to thereby become refrigerant air;
• at least one heat exchanger coupled to said air delivery system for receiving said refrigerant air from said selected ones of said plurality of Joule-Thomson orifices, each said heat exchanger having spaced-apart triangular tubes through which said refrigerant air flows and around which flow paths are defined, said triangular tubes of each said heat exchanger being arranged in rows with each of said rows having a baseline along which bases of said triangular tubes are aligned, said rows for each said heat exchanger being numbered from n=1 to N with
• (i) apexes of said triangular tubes in odd-numbered ones of said rows pointing in a first direction and apexes of said triangular tubes in even-numbered ones of said rows pointing away from said first direction,
• (ii) from n=2 to N, said triangular tubes associated with pairs of adjacent rows interlocking and separated from one another by a fixed spacing, and
• (iii) said baseline of each of said odd-numbered ones of said rows being separated by said fixed spacing from said baseline of an adjacent one of said even-numbered ones of said rows;
• and
• means for moving ambient air towards said first direction wherein said ambient air moves through said flow paths.

An air conditioning system, comprising:

• a compressor for generating compressed air;
• an air delivery system coupled to said compressor for receiving said compressed air, said air delivery system terminating at an exit thereof with a plurality of Joule-Thomson orifices wherein said compressed air flows through selected ones of said plurality of Joule-Thomson orifices to thereby become refrigerant air at said exit;
• at least one heat exchanger coupled to said exit for receiving said refrigerant air from said selected ones of said plurality of Joule-Thomson orifices, each said heat exchanger having spaced-apart triangular tubes through which said refrigerant air flows and around which flow paths are defined, each of said triangular tubes having a cross-sectional shape selected from the group consisting of isosceles and equilateral triangles, said triangular tubes of each said heat exchanger being arranged in rows with each of said rows having a baseline along which bases of said triangular tubes are aligned, said rows for each said heat exchanger being numbered from n=1 to N with
• (i) apexes of said triangular tubes in odd-numbered ones of said rows pointing in a first direction and apexes of said triangular tubes in even-numbered ones of said rows pointing away from said first direction,
• (ii) from n=2 to N, said triangular tubes associated with pairs of adjacent rows interlocking and separated from one another by a fixed spacing, and
• (iii) said baseline of each of said odd-numbered ones of said rows being separated by said fixed spacing from said baseline of an adjacent one of said even-numbered ones of said rows;
• and
• means for moving ambient air towards said first direction wherein said ambient air moves through said flow paths.