HEAT ACCUMULATING AND HEAT EXCHANGING DEVICE

• Main Authors: TSUKAMOTO MORIAKI, CHINEN MASANORI, SUMIDA ISAO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 18.12.1985
• Subjects: BLASTING; HEAT EXCHANGE IN GENERAL; HEAT-EXCHANGE APPARATUS, NOT PROVIDED FOR IN ANOTHER SUBCLASS,IN WHICH THE HEAT-EXCHANGE MEDIA DO NOT COME INTO DIRECT CONTACT; HEATING; LIGHTING; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; WEAPONS

PURPOSE:To form the miniaturized device, having good thermal response and not necessitating to preheat the piping system or the like, by a method wherein a pipeline for exchanging heat and a bulkhead, precluding the mixing of low melting point and high melting point heat accumulating materials, which are utilizing sensible heat and latent heat, are provided in a heat accumulator. CONSTITUTION:A cylindrical heat insulating wall 68 is provided at a boundary between an inlet plenum 64 and an outlet plenum 66 of a vessel 51 connected to the inlet pipe 65 of vapor. Low melting point heat accumulating material 53 and high melting point heat accumulating material 54 are arranged in the same heat accumulating vessel 51, therefore, the size of the device may be miniaturized and the thermal response may be improved due to the large latent heat of the heat accumulating material 54 and the high heat transfer coefficient of the heat accumulating material 53 upon melting. On the other hand, even in case the operating medium is solidified, the medium is molten when the heat collecting section 60 of a heat pipe is heated by solar heat and the heat pipe begins the operation thereof, therefore, preheating or the like of the piping system upon starting the operation of the device may become unnecessary.