PCM modules/packs/PCM arrangements
AssigneeVKR Holdings A/S
InventorsMathew Holloway, Karina Torlei, Daniel Becerra, William Linsey Penfold
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Abstract
A transportable PCM (phase change material) module comprises a number of PCM packs; a housing for thermally insulting said number of PCM packs from a module's surrounding medium; spaces separating said packs and forming one or more channels for the flow of a fluid; said housing incorporating a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet; whereby, in use, fluid flows through said channels from said inlet to said outlet. A PCM (phase change material) pack comprises a laminate of a first conducting panel and a second conducting panel enclosing a portion formed primarily of PCM; wherein said portion of PCM incorporates thermal conductors.
Claims15
A modular air conditioning system, comprising:
- a plurality of separately transportable cooling modules, each cooling module comprising a plurality of phase change material (PCM) packs in a thermally insulating housing with spaces between the PCM packs forming channels for the flow of air from an air inlet of the housing to an air outlet of the housing;
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- a transportable control module that is both spatially separate from and separable from the cooling modules, wherein the transportable control module comprises:
- a housing with an air inlet for receiving air directly from outside of the modular air conditioning system and at least one air outlet;
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- a pump for causing, in use, a flow of air from the air inlet of the housing of the control module to the at least one air outlet of the housing of the control module;
- wherein, in use, the modular air conditioning system is assembled such that the at least one air outlet of the control module is connected to an air inlet of a first cooling module of the cooling modules, and the air outlet of the first cooling module is connected to an air inlet of a second cooling module of the cooling modules such that the pump of the control module causes the flow of air from the air outlet of the control module, through the air inlet of the first cooling module, through the air outlet of the first cooling module, through an air inlet of the second cooling module to the air outlet of the second cooling module.
A modular air conditioning system, comprising:
- a plurality of separately transportable cooling modules, each cooling module comprising a plurality of phase change material (PCM) packs in a thermally insulating housing with spaces between the PCM packs forming channels for the flow of air from an air inlet of the housing to an air outlet of the housing;
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- a transportable control module that is both spatially separate from and separable from the cooling modules, wherein the transportable control module comprises:
- a housing with an air inlet for receiving air directly from outside of the modular air conditioning system and at least one air outlet;
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- a pump for causing, in use, a flow of air from the air inlet of the housing of the control module to the at least one air outlet of the housing of the control module;
- wherein, in use, the modular air conditioning system is assembled such that the at least one air outlet of the control module is connected to an air inlet of a first cooling module of the plurality of cooling modules, and the at least one air outlet of the control module is connected to an air inlet of a second cooling module of the plurality of cooling modules such that the pump of the control module causes the flow of air from the air outlet of the control module, through the air inlet of the first cooling module, to the air outlet of the first cooling module, and the pump causes the flow of air from the air outlet of the control module, through the air inlet of the second cooling module, to the air outlet of the second cooling module.
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