Abstract: Disclosed herein is a once-through heat exchanger that includes a tube stack including a plurality of tubes, a plurality of heads connected to the tube stack via a connection module and configured to accommodate heated steam, the connector module comprising a plurality of tube connectors and configured to connect the tubes and the heads, and a manifold connected to the heads via a plurality of link pipes and configured to accommodate heated steam, wherein the connector module comprises a first tube connector and a second tube connector having different shapes.

Abstract: The aircraft can have a cabin adapted to receive one or more persons; a rotary airfoil device; an electric engine drivingly coupled to the rotary airfoil device; a battery powering the electric engine; a coolant subsystem having a coolant circuit and a coolant pump operable to circulate a coolant in the coolant circuit, the coolant circuit connected in heat exchange relationship with at least one of the electric engine and the battery; a heat pump having a refrigerant circuit fluidly connecting, in sequence, a compressor, a condenser, an expansion valve, a first evaporator, and an environmental control line branching off from the refrigerant circuit between the condenser and the first evaporator, the environmental control line having a second evaporator and reconnected to the refrigerant circuit between the first evaporator and the compressor, the first evaporator connected in heat exchange relationship with the coolant circuit; and a pressurized air subsystem having a pressurized air line operable to deliver

Abstract: Suspension systems are methods for isolating a component from vibration while removing heat from that component are provided. The system includes a suspension system and a thermal energy transfer assembly. The suspension system includes a first mounting panel, to which the component is fixed, a second mounting panel that is fixed to a platform, and a shock isolating assembly that interconnects the first and second mounting panels. The thermal energy transfer assembly includes a first heat pipe network disposed on or within the first mounting panel, a second heat pipe network disposed on or within the second mounting panel, and a heat pipe coupling assembly that thermally connects the first heat pipe network to the second heat pipe network. The component can be a heat generating component mounted to an exterior of a spacecraft.

Abstract: A stand-alone ice making appliance includes an upper reservoir fluidly coupled to a lower reservoir via a first valve. An ice maker is disposed within the casing. A pump is disposed within the casing and is operable to flow water from the lower reservoir to upper reservoir and the ice maker. A controller is positioned in the casing. A method of operating the stand-alone ice making appliance includes opening the first valve between the upper reservoir and the lower reservoir. The method also includes draining the liquid from the upper reservoir to the lower reservoir and closing the first valve between the upper reservoir and the lower reservoir. The method further includes operating a descale or cleaning operation of the stand-alone ice making appliance.

Abstract: An ice making appliance includes a casing, a user interface on the casing, a container within the casing, and a reservoir disposed within the casing. The reservoir includes an internal lid. The stand-alone ice making appliance also includes a cover disposed on an external surface of the casing. The cover is rotatable over the reservoir. The internal lid of the reservoir is coupled to the cover. A hinge rotatably couples the cover to the external surface of the casing over the reservoir.

Abstract: An energized assembly to enhance efficacy of a treatment agent in a local environment. The assembly includes an emanator or holder element to hold treatment agent, and a flameless energizing source to energize the treatment agent and thereby, place the treatment agent into an enhanced operational state. Preferred embodiments operate for a period of time of between about 4 and 8 hours, and can then be discarded. Typically, a housing associates the treatment agent and the energizing source. Embodiments may sometimes include one or more of: a gas-tight boundary element, a thermal transfer element, a trigger mechanism, a safety mechanism, a termination mechanism, a time-delay mechanism, solidized treatment agent to avoid spills, and a sequestering arrangement to avoid premature combination of reactants.

Abstract: The disclosed embodiments disclose a modular seasonal thermal-energy storage and transfer system that includes an energy-storage module (ESM) with a plurality of chambers that contain phase-change material (PCM) that stores thermal energy. An energy fluid is routed through the ESM, and the temperature of the energy fluid triggers a phase change in the PCM to transfer energy between the PCM and the energy fluid. A control mechanism can adjust the flow of the energy fluid through the ESM to efficiently achieve a target temperature change either in the energy fluid (e.g., using the ESM to access stored energy from the PCM) or in the PCM (e.g., use thermal energy in the energy fluid to store energy in the PCM). The disclosed techniques facilitate the charging and use of a flexible, modular year-round hot and cold energy storage.

Abstract: A corrugated fin of a heat exchanger is formed such that fin sections are joined together one after another in a tube axial direction of a plurality of flat heat-transfer tubes. Louvers in the fin sections of the corrugated fin are divided into a first louver group formed further upstream in a direction of flow of air than a drain slit in the corrugated fin and a second louver group formed further downstream in the direction of flow of air than the drain slit. Plate portions of the first louver group and plate portions of the second louver group are inclined to a flat-plate portion in the fin sections and inclined in respective directions that are opposite to each other. The drain slit includes a plurality of drain slits provided in a plurality of respective rows between the first louver group and the second louver group.

Abstract: A three-dimensionally distributed liquid atomization heat exchanger includes a housing, an air extraction device, a heat exchange device and a liquid atomization device. The air extraction device is used for forming negative pressure in the housing. The liquid atomization device comprises a liquid supply pipe, atomization discharge pipes and atomization heads. The atomization discharge pipes are connected to the liquid supply pipe. The atomization heads are arranged on the atomization discharge pipes. The atomization discharge pipes are three-dimensionally distributed in the housing. Control devices are arranged on the atomization heads to control the atomization heads to be opened or closed. The control devices are connected to a control center which can, according to a preset time, a preset percentage of the atomization heads which are open and a randomization function, select randomly the atomization heads to be opened or closed.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a cooling pipe of an electric vehicle battery that is coupled to one side and the other side of a radiator, passes between battery modules of which a battery pack consists, and cools the battery modules, including: a body pipe that is formed in a pipe shape so that a flow path through which a cooling fluid flows is formed therein and has an inlet on one side and an outlet on the other side, wherein the inlet is coupled to one side of the radiator and the outlet is coupled to the other side thereof; and a corrugated pipe that is integrally formed with the body pipe and is formed in the form of one or more corrugations between the inlet and the outlet.

Abstract: An object of the present disclosure is to provide a heat pipe having a good maximum heat transfer rate and capable of reducing thermal resistance and exhibiting excellent heat transfer characteristics even when the heat pipe is installed in the top heat position. The heat pipe includes: a container having a sealed internal space; a wick structure obtained by sintering metal fibers and disposed on an inner surface of the container; and a working fluid sealed in the internal space of the container, wherein the metal fibers include metal fibers having a fiber length of not less than 0.50 mm but not more than 1.8 mm, and a fiber diameter of not less than 10 ?m but not more than 50 ? m.

Abstract: An apparatus to reverse the direction of fluid flow is provided. The apparatus can include a first channel and a second channel. The first channel and second channel can define a first position to provide a first fluid flow direction via the first channel and the second channel. The apparatus can include a third channel and a fourth channel. The third channel and the fourth channel can define a second position to provide a second fluid flow direction via the third channel and the fourth channel. The apparatus can be configured to actuate from the first position to the second position to reverse flow direction from the first fluid flow direction to the second fluid flow direction.

Abstract: A refrigerator includes: a cabinet defining a storage space, a door that opens and closes the storage space, an evaporator generating cold air to thereby reduce a temperature of the storage space, a blowing fan circulating the cold air in the storage space, a grille panel provided at a rear side of the storage space and including a discharge port discharging the cold air into the storage space, and an ice maker disposed at a front side of the grille pan and including a guide duct guiding a flow of the cold air discharged from the discharge port. The guide duct provides a branched passage to thereby guide (i) a portion of the cold air discharged from the discharge port into the ice maker and (ii) remaining portions of the cold air to bypass the ice maker and into a space defined at a front side of the ice maker.

Abstract: In a heat exchanger, a respective meander passage in each of two stages connecting heat absorbing tubes divided into the two stages and arranged in a flow direction of a combustion gas in an inside of a casing from one side to the other side in a Y-axis direction is constituted, and a heat absorbing tube at an upstream end of the meander passage in a first stage at an upstream side of the flow direction of the combustion gas and a heat absorbing tube at a downstream end of the meander passage in the second stage at a downstream side of the combustion gas are made to be positioned at the one side in the Y-axis direction, a ventilation resistant portion for suppressing the combustion gas from being directed to the heat absorbing tube at the downstream end of the meander passage in the second stage is provided.

Abstract: An ice making appliance defines a vertical direction, a lateral direction, and a transverse direction. The ice making appliance includes a cabinet, an ice storage compartment, an ice mold provided above the ice storage compartment, a first reservoir provided within the cabinet, a deionization filter provided within the first reservoir, a conductivity sensor coupled to the deionization filter, and a first circulation system is provided in the first reservoir. The first circulation system includes an inlet downstream of the deionization filter whereby the first circulation system supplies filtered water to the ice mold. A second reservoir is provided within the cabinet, and the second reservoir in fluid communication with the first reservoir.

Abstract: An outdoor unit of an air conditioner, including a housing including an inlet and an outlet, wherein a flow path is formed between the inlet and the outlet inside the housing; a heat exchanger positioned on the flow path inside the housing; and a blower fan inside the housing between the inlet and the heat exchanger, and configured to flow air along the flow path, from the inlet, through the heat exchanger, and toward the outlet, wherein the blower fan includes a hub configured to be rotatable, and a plurality of blades extending from the hub and arranged along a circumference of the hub, each blade among the plurality of blades includes a leading edge at a side of a rotation direction of the hub, a trailing edge opposite to the leading edge, and a blade surface between the leading edge and the trailing edge and inclined toward the inlet from the trailing edge to the leading edge.

Abstract: An information handling system, including a cover including a first section and a second section; a first battery cell in superimposition with the second section of the cover; a second battery cell in superimposition with the second section of the cover, the second battery cell spaced-apart from the first battery cell to define a channel therebetween; a graphene coating in superimposition with the second section of the cover; and a first portion of a graphite sheet that is i) in superimposition with a first region of the second section of the cover, ii) in superimposition with the channel defined between the first battery and the second battery, and iii) in superimposition with a first portion of the graphene coating.

Abstract: A heat exchanger including a heat exchanger block having first fluid channels and second fluid channels, including a fluid collector, the first fluid channels having a first fluid channel section and a second fluid channel section. A first fluid inlet is provided, which is fluidically connected to the first fluid channel section of the first fluid channels. A first fluid outlet is fluidically connected to the first fluid channel section of the first fluid channels. A second fluid inlet is fluidically connected to the second fluid channel section of the first fluid channels. A second fluid outlet is fluidically connected to the second fluid channel section of the first fluid channels. The fluid collector has a third fluid inlet, a third fluid outlet, and a fourth fluid inlet, which is fluidically connected to the second fluid channels. A fourth fluid outlet is fluidically connected to the second fluid channels.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a heat exchange device using seawater including: a body portion having a hollow shape; a pillar portion which is disposed inside the body portion and has a hollow shape, in which the data center servers are installed, and into which seawater flows; and the first cover portion to which one end of the pillar portion is coupled, and which is detachably installed at one end of the body portion.

Abstract: Provided is a refrigerator including a cabinet having a refrigerating compartment and a freezing compartment defined therein, and an ice-maker disposed in the freezing compartment, wherein the ice-maker includes a cold-air hole for receiving cold air, an upper tray having a plurality of hemispherical upper chambers defined therein, a lower tray pivotably disposed below the upper tray, wherein the lower tray has a plurality of lower chambers defined therein respectively connected to the upper chambers by pivoting, wherein each of the lower chambers and each of the upper chambers connected with each other define an ice chamber for forming spherical ice therein, a driver for pivoting the lower tray, and at least one shield formed on an outer face of the upper tray and corresponding to at least one of the ice chambers respectively, thereby to reduce the cold-air from invading the at least one corresponding ice chamber.