Abstract: The invention relates to a method for executing an alternating evaporation and condensation process of a working medium on a heat transfer surface provided simultaneously as an evaporation and condensation surface. The method is characterized in that, during a respective operating cycle from in each case an condensation process and in each case an evaporation process, a condensate film of the working medium which forms during the condensation process is stored permanently in situ on the heat transfer surface and is then evaporated from the heat transfer surface during the evaporation process. In terms of the apparatus, the heat transfer surface (2) is in the form of an in-situ store for a condensate film (6) of the working medium which covers the heat transfer surface and does not drip off and remains on the heat transfer surface during the condensation process and evaporates during the evaporation process.

Abstract: The invention relates to an adsorption module, consisting of at least one sorption unit and at least one evaporator/condenser unit, each with inlet and outlet ports for a fluid heat transfer medium, said units being in the same or separate vacuum-tight housings. According to the invention the housing is flat and can be joined to multiple flat housings in a stacked arrangement with a common steam duct.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a device for operating a cyclical thermal adsorption heating or refrigeration system having a desorption phase and an adsorption phase, comprising at least one adsorber/desorber unit (A/D), a refrigerant cyclically adsorbed during the adsorption phase and desorbed during the desorption phase, and an evaporator/condenser unit (V/K) that acts as an evaporator (V) or as a condenser (K) depending on the process phase. The method and the device intended for carrying out the method are characterized by a cyclic heat recovery that occurs at the same time in a heat recovery circuit having a temporary store (ZS) and a heat transfer medium, comprising the following steps.

Abstract: The invention relates to a functional composite material consisting of a support (1) and a functional surface material (2). The composite material is characterized in that the support has a structured boundary layer (3) with a lower boundary (4), an upper boundary (5) a cross-linking depth (d) between the lower and upper boundaries and a substance boundary (6) that alternates between the upper and lower boundaries on the surface facing the functional surface material. The substance boundary (6) is designed in particular as a continuous sequence of surface molded sections (7) of the support with spaces (8) therebetween, each molded section having a height (h) that equals the cross-linking depth and at least one molded section and at least one space (8) lie within a horizontal width (b) corresponding to a multiple of the cross-linking depth.

Abstract: An aluminum-containing substrate is described that comprises at least one superficially applied microporous layer of an aluminum phosphate zeolite (ALPO) as well as other layers. Said aluminum-containing substrate is characterized in that the microporous layer of the aluminum phosphate zeolite represents a primer coating on which a microporous or mesoporous secondary material is located which differs from the material of the primer coating. Said aluminum-containing substrate is produced in a particularly advantageous manner according to a method in which 1.

Abstract: A method is described for forming an aluminosilicate-zeolite layer on an aluminum-containing substrate by in situ direct crystallization. Aluminum-rich aluminosilicate-zeolite coatings on aluminum-containing metal substrates obtained by this method are advantageous, for example, in sorption-based fields of application, such as heterogeneous catalysis, in separation and cleaning processes, in sorption heat pumps, in conjunction with immobilized catalysts and in microreaction technology.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for executing an alternating evaporation and condensation process of a working medium on a heat transfer surface provided simultaneously as an evaporation and condensation surface. The method is characterized in that, during a respective operating cycle from in each case an condensation process and in each case an evaporation process, a condensate film of the working medium which forms during the condensation process is stored permanently in situ on the heat transfer surface and is then evaporated from the heat transfer surface during the evaporation process. In terms of the apparatus, the heat transfer surface (2) is in the form of an in-situ store for a condensate film (6) of the working medium which covers the heat transfer surface and does not drip off and remains on the heat transfer surface during the condensation process and evaporates during the evaporation process.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a device for operating a cyclical thermal adsorption heating or refrigeration system having a desorption phase and an adsorption phase, comprising at least one adsorber/desorber unit (A/D), a refrigerant cyclically adsorbed during the adsorption phase and desorbed during the desorption phase, and an evaporator/condenser unit (V/K) that acts as an evaporator (V) or as a condenser (K) depending on the process phase. The method and the device intended for carrying out the method are characterized by a cyclic heat recovery that occurs at the same time in a heat recovery circuit having a temporary store (ZS) and a heat transfer medium, comprising the following steps.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing an adsorption heat exchanger, which is characterized by the following Steps: producing a heat exchanger structure; forming an adhesive layer (5) on the heat exchanger structure; filling the heat exchanger structure with a sorbent material (6.1); removing from the heat exchanger structure portions of the sorbent material that have bonded only weakly or not at all to the adhesive structure.

Abstract: The invention relates to a compact sorption cooling unit, comprising at least one adsorber/desorber unit (1) having a heat exchanger and sorption material, at least one condenser heat exchanger (5), and at least one evaporator heat exchanger (6), wherein these building blocks are located in a common, vacuum-tight metal outer housing, and having connection and coupling elements and pipe ducts for the hydraulic interconnection and operation of the unit. The invention provides a sandwich structure, wherein the at least one adsorber/desorber unit (1) is located in an inner or partial inner housing. The condenser heat exchanger (5) and the evaporator heat exchanger (6) are disposed at a distance from each other, and the inner housing having the adsorber/desorber unit (1) is provided in the intermediate space thereof. The separating surfaces (2) of the inner housing directed toward the condenser heat exchanger (5) and toward the evaporator heat exchanger (6) receive steam valves (8, 9).

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for controlling the power of a sorption refrigeration system, comprising an adsorber unit, a condenser (C), and an evaporator (E) through which a cooling carrier fluid (KT) flows, with alternating application of the adsorber unit by a valve unit (HV_IN, HV_OUT) operated via a controller, having a circuit process of at least one sorption phase and at least one heat recovery phase, wherein a measurement of a current cooling carrier outlet temperature (Takt) is carried out in the return of the evaporator, a calculation of an averaged cooling carrier outlet temperature (Tgem) is carried out during the first and second sorption phases with a comparison to the current cooling carrier outlet temperature (Takt), and a control signal is trigger upon completion of the sorption phase as a function of the difference between the averaged cooling carrier outlet temperature (Tgem) and the current cooling carrier outlet temperature (Tgem). The invention provides a corresponding device.

Abstract: An adsorption apparatus having at least a first and second adsorber unit, each of which is connected to a feed line and return line. Each adsorber unit operates alternately in a desorption phase as a desorber wherein heat is dissipated from the heat transfer medium to the desorber, and in an adsorption phase as an adsorber wherein heat is dissipated from the adsorber to the medium. A heating circuit having a heat source for heating the heat transfer medium and a cooling circuit having a heat sink for cooling the medium are provided. A control unit alternately switches the feed and return lines individually between the heating circuit and the cooling circuit in such a way that the return line with the highest temperature supplies heat transfer medium to the heating circuit.

Abstract: A method is described for forming an aluminosilicate-zeolite layer on an aluminium-containing substrate which is transferred into an aqueous reaction dispersion containing silicon and optionally aluminium as network-forming elements, wherein, irrespective of whether or not aluminium is present in the aqueous reaction dispersion, the molar ratio of the aluminium in the aqueous reaction dispersion, optionally 0, to the sum of the designated network-forming elements contained in the aqueous reaction dispersion ranges between 0 and about 0.4, the aqueous reaction dispersion containing the aluminium-containing substrate is heated, and aluminium is extracted from the aluminium-containing substrate for the aluminosilicate-zeolite formation process, and the layer of an aluminosilicate-zeolite is formed on the aluminium-containing substrate by in situ direct crystallization.

Abstract: A system and method for air-conditioning motor vehicles and, in particular, to an air-conditioning systems for motor vehicles having adsorption heat pumps. The apparatus includes a two adsorber chambers, each connected to a condenser and an evaporator via different connection elements; a vacuum shell for enclosing the adsorber chambers, the condenser, and the evaporator, wherein the vacuum shell is not self-supporting; and one or more adsorbers housed in the adsorber chambers, wherein the adsorbers are comprised of a carrier material coated by a sorbent. The method includes using an adsorption heat pump having one or more adsorber chambers, wherein adsorption and desorption are alternated between the adsorber chambers. The instant abstract is neither intended to define the invention disclosed in this specification nor intended to limit the scope of the invention in any way.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for production of a zeolite layer on a substrate containing metal, comprising the following method steps: production of an aqueous suspension, comprising several components, one component comprises at least one cross-linking element from the third, fourth or fifth main group of the periodic table, the substrate containing metal comprises at least one of the cross-linking elements, introduction of the substrate containing metal to the aqueous suspension, heating the aqueous suspension and the substrate containing the metal present therein for the in-situ crystallisation of a zeolite layer on the substrate containing metal, whereby the cross-linking elements in the substrate containing metal are extracted and included in the zeolite layer, a cross-linking element present in the suspension for formation of the zeolite layer is present at a concentration so low that a crystallisation in the suspension is largely or completely avoided and said element is principally provided by th

Abstract: A system and method for air-conditioning motor vehicles and, in particular, to an air-conditioning systems for motor vehicles having adsorption heat pumps. The apparatus includes a two adsorber chambers, each connected to a condenser and an evaporator via different connection elements; a vacuum shell for enclosing the adsorber chambers, the condenser, and the evaporator, wherein the vacuum shell is not self-supporting; and one or more adsorbers housed in the adsorber chambers, wherein the adsorbers are comprised of a carrier material coated by a sorbent. The method includes using an adsorption heat pump having one or more adsorber chambers, wherein adsorption and desorption are alternated between the adsorber chambers. The instant abstract is neither intended to define the invention disclosed in this specification nor intended to limit the scope of the invention in any way.

Abstract: The invention relates to an adsorption machine, comprising at least a first and a second adsorber unit which are each connected to a forward motion (VL) and a return motion (RL), in order to supply heat from a heat transfer medium of the adsorber unit conducted through the forward motion (VL) to the adsorber unit or to remove said heat from the adsorber unit to the heat transfer medium; each adsorber unit works alternately in a desorption phase as a desorber, wherein heat is removed from the heat transfer medium to the desorber and in an adsorption phase as an adsorber, wherein heat is removed from the adsorber to the heat transfer medium; the adsorption machine comprises further at least two heat transfer medium circuits, namely a heating circuit with a heat source for heating up of the heat transfer medium, and a cooling circuit with a heat sink for cooling of the heat transfer medium.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for carrying out a heat transfer between alternately working adsorbers (Ad1, Ad2) in an adsorption refrigeration installation comprising an external cooling circuit (Kw) and an external heating circuit (Hw). The method is characterized by a closed heat transfer circuit, connected between the first and the second adsorber, comprising a heat transfer medium (Wm) circulating therein, a heat transfer with the external cooling circuit (Kw) being carried out in the heat transfer circuit via a first heat contact and a heat transfer with the external heating circuit (Hw) being carried out via a second heat contact.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for controlling the power of a sorption refrigeration system, comprising an adsorber unit, a condenser (C), and an evaporator (E) through which a cooling carrier fluid (KT) flows, with alternating application of the adsorber unit by a valve unit (HV_IN, HV_OUT) operated via a controller, having a circuit process of at least one sorption phase and at least one heat recovery phase, wherein a measurement of a current cooling carrier outlet temperature (Takt) is carried out in the return of the evaporator, a calculation of an averaged cooling carrier outlet temperature (Tgem) is carried out during the first and second sorption phases with a comparison to the current cooling carrier outlet temperature (Takt), and a control signal is trigger upon completion of the sorption phase as a function of the difference between the averaged cooling carrier outlet temperature (Tgem) and the current cooling carrier outlet temperature (Tgem). The invention provides a corresponding device.

Abstract: The invention relates to a compact sorption cooling unit, comprising at least one adsorber/desorber unit (1) having a heat exchanger and sorption material, at least one condenser heat exchanger (5), and at least one evaporator heat exchanger (6), wherein these building blocks are located in a common, vacuum-tight metal outer housing, and having connection and coupling elements and pipe ducts for the hydraulic interconnection and operation of the unit. The invention provides a sandwich structure, wherein the at least one adsorber/desorber unit (1) is located in an inner or partial inner housing. The condenser heat exchanger (5) and the evaporator heat exchanger (6) are disposed at a distance from each other, and the inner housing having the adsorber/desorber unit (1) is provided in the intermediate space thereof. The separating surfaces (2) of the inner housing directed toward the condenser heat exchanger (5) and toward the evaporator heat exchanger (6) receive steam valves (8, 9).