Ionic air cooling device
OwnerDavid John Tannerinventor
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Abstract
An ionic air cooling device comprising a salinity differential heat engine using a heat pump as the primary heat source and the mechanism by which the temperature differential is achieved. A closed loop thermodynamic cycle which produces a high thermodynamic efficiency in heat to energy conversion with a low temperature differential between the high and low sides, in addition to a net ambient temperature cooling effect by directly or indirectly converting ambient temperature/environmental low grade heat to electricity or potential kinetic energy or mechanical work. An ionic air cooling device which uses a salinity differential heat engine in which the heat energy can be converted to kinetic or electrical energy by means of pressure retarded osmosis, pressurized gas through volume confinement, or reversed electro dialysis.
Claims9
A contained system ionic air cooling device, comprising:
- (a) an intermediate ionic solution located in at least one buffering tank associated with a heat pump;
- (b) a hot-side processing tank containing a concentrated ionic solution at a temperature of no less than 140 degrees F., associated with at least one of heat exchangers, automatic-flow-valves, heat pumps;
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- (c) a cold-side processing tank, containing a diluted ionic solution having a reversible-vapor-compression pump with a coefficient of performance of at least 3 or above having a temperature no less than 33 degrees F., associated with at least one of heat exchangers, automatic-flow-valves, heat pumps, and a refrigerant compressor cycle, and passing this diluted solution through a reversed-electro-dialysis unit or PRO unit.
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