Tube Coil Bonded Directly To Tank Exterior Patents (Class 165/DIG353)
  • Device for cooling containments
    Patent number: 5564498
    Abstract: A device for cooling containments, and particularly silos for storing irradiated nuclear fuels, comprising at least two rows of vertical tubes that clamps maintain applied against the wall to be cooled, the free space or housing which contains tubes being filled with a mass of a material ensuring good heat transfer. The ambient air may, by natural convection, traverse the tubes to dissipate the heat into the atmosphere.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 15, 1996
    Assignee: ROBATEL
    Inventor: Camille Bochard
  • Two-pipe system for refrigerant isolation
    Patent number: 5558273
    Abstract: A heat pump system for heating and cooling including a vapor compressor driven by a heat engine in which the refrigerant is isolated from a space being conditioned, by a two-pipe loop that, in a heating mode transfers both refrigeration derived heat and heat rejected by the heat engine in an efficient serial manner. The system circuitry includes a counterflow heat transfer fluid to air heat exchanger and a heat transfer fluid to potable water heater exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 24, 1996
    Assignee: Advanced Mechanical Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul F. Swenson, Edwin E. Jordan, Joseph Gerstmann