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AssigneeBSH Hausgeräte GmbH
InventorsAndreas Stolze, Jörg Waschull
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A household appliance has a working chamber and at least one latent heat store having a respective storage medium. The storage medium is thermally coupled via a respective associated heat exchanger to a working medium circulating through the working chamber. The working medium moves from the working chamber to a heat sink, from the heat sink to the heat exchanger, from the heat exchanger to a heat source, and from the heat source back to the working chamber. The storage medium forms a substance mixture together with a respective carrier fluid. The substance mixture can be conducted in a respective closed circuit through the associated heat exchanger for an exchange of heat with the working medium, and the substance mixture circulates between the associated heat exchanger and at least one reservoir in the respective closed circuit. The reservoir can be refilled layer-by-layer with the substance mixture conducted through the respective associated heat exchanger.
A household appliance, comprising a working chamber and at least one latent heat store, having one storage medium in each instance, the one storage medium in each instance being thermally coupled by way of an associated heat exchanger in each instance to a working medium circulating through the working chamber, wherein working medium passes first from the working chamber to a heat sink, from there to the heat exchanger, from there to a heat source and from there back into the working chamber and wherein the one storage medium in each instance forms a substance mixture together with a carrier fluid in each instance, said substance mixture being able to be conducted in a closed circuit in each instance by way of the associated heat exchanger in each instance for an exchange of heat with the working medium, wherein the one substance mixture in each instance circulates between the associated heat exchanger in each instance and at least one reservoir in the respective closed circuit and the reservoir can be filled layer by layer with the substance mixture conducted by way of the associated heat exchanger in each instance.
A method for operating a household appliance, wherein one storage medium of at least one latent heat store in each instance is thermally coupled by way of an associated heat exchanger in each instance to a working medium of the household appliance, wherein one storage medium in each instance is made to exchange heat with the working medium in that a substance mixture formed by the one storage medium in each instance and a carrier fluid in each instance is conducted in a respectively closed circuit by way of the associated heat exchanger,
A method for operating a household appliance having a working chamber and at least one latent heat store with a storage medium, each storage medium being thermally coupled by way of an associated heat exchanger to a working medium circulating through the working chamber, wherein the method includes passing working medium from the working chamber to a heat sink, from there to the heat exchanger, from there to a heat source and from there back into the working chamber, wherein the one storage medium in each instance forms a substance mixture together with a carrier fluid, said substance mixture being able to be conducted in a closed circuit by way of the associated heat exchanger for an exchange of heat with the working medium, wherein the one substance mixture in each instance circulates between the associated heat exchanger and at least one reservoir in the respective closed circuit and the reservoir can be filled layer by layer with the substance mixture conducted by way of the associated heat exchanger.
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