Abstract: A heat exchange system with at least one heat exchange chamber with heat exchange chamber boundaries which surround at least one heat exchange chamber interior of the heat exchange chamber is provided. The heat exchange chamber boundaries include at least one first opening for guiding in an inflow of at least one heat transfer fluid into the heat exchange chamber interior and at least one second opening for guiding out an outflow of the heat transfer fluid out of the heat exchange chamber interior. At least one heat storage material is arranged in the heat exchange chamber interior such that a heat exchange flow of the heat transfer fluid through the heat exchange chamber interior causes a heat exchange between the heat storage material and the heat transfer fluid.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a streamlined wavy fin for a finned tube heat exchanger, which comprises a fin body, an airflow inlet on one end of the fin body, an airflow outlet on the other end of the fin body, mounting holes for mounting tubes on the fin body, and several convex/concave ripples consecutively formed from the airflow inlet to the airflow outlet on the fin body in an orientation of an airflow streamlines. A connection line of the wave crests of the same one convex ripple and a connection line of the wave troughs of the same one concave ripple neighboring the same one convex ripple are both streamlines. The present invention efficiently suppresses the flow separation downstream the circular tubes, and obviously reduces the pressure loss of airflow.

Abstract: A multi-layer heat exchanger includes a fluid layer defined by a first sheet and a second sheet, the fluid layer configured to route a fluid in a predominant flow direction. Also included is a fluid inlet port disposed proximate an inlet end region of the fluid layer, wherein the fluid inlet port is oriented to introduce the fluid into the fluid layer in a direction substantially perpendicular to the predominant flow direction, wherein the inlet end region of the fluid layer comprises a non-linear geometry. Further included is at least one fin segment disposed between the first sheet and the second sheet, wherein the at least one fin segment includes a first plurality of apertures proximate the inlet end region, the at least one fin segment consisting of a single, uniform fin segment.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a high-vacuum serial condenser system that can minimize a pressure drop of fluid in condensers by disposing straight pipes between the condensers and installing baffles at predetermined angles in the condensers.

Abstract: Disclosed is a building envelope for a building wall, floor, or roof of a building, the building envelope comprising at least two shells spaced apart from one another that enclose an intermediate space there between, the intermediate space being sealed against the interior and the exterior of the building and being filled with structural weight-bearing and building-technology components, and at least in sections with a porous, open-celled 3D-pattern material. A plurality of heat pipes which are connected to a heat-collector element on the shell facing the exterior and the interior of the building and which end in the intermediate space are arranged in the intermediate space.

Abstract: A hybrid closed circuit heat exchanger having a dry indirect section and an evaporative indirect section. The evaporative indirect section has multiple sub-sections. An evaporative fluid distribution system is configured to selectively distribute evaporative fluid over all, part, or none of the sub-sections. A process fluid flow path control system is configured to selectively direct the process fluid through one or more sub-sections. The process fluid flow path control system may send all of the process fluid through two or more sub-sections in equal amounts or in different amounts. There is preferably no evaporative heat exchange section bypass flow path.

Abstract: Provided are an air conditioner capable of indoor heating and humidity control with a simple structure and a method of controlling the same. The air conditioner comprises: a first air flow channel; a second air flow channel; a dehumidification rotor which comprises a first region provided on the first air flow channel, a second region provided on the second air flow channel, and an adsorbent which alternately passes through the first region and the second region and adsorbs moisture in the first region or the second region; and a control unit configured to control air flowing in the first air flow path so that the air is heated by a heater and discharged to an indoor area and control moisture of air flowing through the second region so that the moisture is evaporated in the first region to humidify the indoor.

Abstract: A heat exchanger includes fins that are spaced apart from each other, and that each include one or more tube slots. A coil is coupled to the fins and includes a tube section extending through axially aligned tube slots. A heater insert extends through one or more of the axially aligned tube slots adjacent an exterior of the tube section to defrost the heat exchanger.

Abstract: An aluminum strip for a component, in particular a brazing component, in particular a tube or a disk, includes a profile having a brazing connection, wherein in at least one area, in particular in the area of the brazing connection: a first part of the strip thickness is taken up by a core layer of a first aluminum alloy; at least a second part of the strip thickness is taken up by at least one plating layer of a second aluminum alloy, wherein the first and the second aluminum alloy are configured to form a “brown band” layer during a brazing process; and at least a third part of the strip thickness is taken up by at least one “brown band” layer that is formed out of the first and the second aluminum alloy during the brazing process, and wherein a strip thickness of the aluminum strip is less than 500 ?m and a thickness of the core layer and/or a thickness of the plating layer is configured such that after the brazing process at least 5% of the strip thickness that is taken up by the first aluminum alloy of t

Abstract: An energy exchange system that includes a supply air flow path, an exhaust air flow path, an energy recovery device disposed within the supply and exhaust air flow paths, and a supply conditioning unit disposed within the supply air flow path. The supply conditioning unit may be downstream from the energy recovery device.

Abstract: An air conditioner includes a header for introducing refrigerant into a plurality of refrigerant tubes provided in parallel in a vertical direction. The header includes a main header chamber extending in the vertical direction and a plurality of sub header chambers branched in the horizontal direction from the main header chamber and provided in parallel in the vertical direction. The main header chamber includes a refrigerant inlet port configured to introduce the refrigerant in a gas-liquid mixing state in a horizontal direction into an inside of the main header chamber; and a flow direction changing mechanism provided to collide with the refrigerant ejected from the refrigerant inlet port, and configured to change a flow direction of the refrigerant from the horizontal direction to the vertical direction.

Abstract: The disclosed apparatus may include (1) a heatsink that includes a first vapor chamber that (A) contains fluid that dissipates heat and (B) is at least partially encompassed by a plate that contains at least one slot extending from a top surface of the plate to the first vapor chamber and (2) at least one fin that (A) encompasses a second vapor chamber (B) is secured within the slot in the plate of the heatsink such that (i) the fin extends from the heatsink and (ii) the fluid within the first vapor chamber is capable of flowing into the second vapor chamber. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.

Abstract: A battery cooling system may include a first cooling device including a first radiator and a first water pump connected through a first coolant line and circulating a coolant in the first coolant line to cool at least one electrical component and at least one motor; a second cooling device including a second radiator and a second water pump connected through a second coolant line and circulating the coolant in the second coolant line; a battery module mounted on a battery coolant line selectively connectable to the second coolant line through a valve; and a chiller mounted on the battery coolant line and through which the coolant passes, connected to a refrigerant line of an air conditioning device through a refrigerant connection line, and making the coolant which selectively flows exchange heat with a refrigerant supplied from the air conditioning device to control a temperature of the coolant.

Abstract: A heat exchanger may include a tubular housing, a flange ring, two bases, and heat exchanger tubes running through the housing and respectively held at a longitudinal end side in the bases, a first flow channel formed therein, and a second flow channel formed between the tubes and the housing. The housing may be formed from first and second housing parts each being pot-shaped and having a housing portion, an outwardly widened flange ring portion, and a base. The housing parts may be connected to one another via the flange ring portions that may delimit an annular space. On the first housing part, inlet and outlet connecting-pieces for coolant may be provided. Between the housing and the heat exchanger tubes, at least one separator may be arranged, on which at least one blade may be provided, the blade engaging at least partly into the annular space and at least reducing a circumferential flow therein.

Abstract: A heat exchanger comprises a shell having a first inlet and a first outlet for a first fluid (H) and a second inlet and a second outlet for a second fluid (C), and a screw element. The screw element has a core and first and second nested helical flights mounted to the core. The helical flights define first and second helical fluid passages along the shell. The first fluid passage is in fluid communication with the first inlet and the first outlet and the second fluid passage is in fluid communication with the second inlet and the second outlet. The heat exchanger further comprises a plurality of tubes mounted between adjacent turns of the first and second helical flights and extending across the fluid flow passage formed between the helical flights for conducting the first and or second fluid.

Abstract: A vehicle heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) system having a variable compressor can reduce a load applied to a vehicle powertrain during certain conditions. Systems and methods can determine if a power state of an HVAC system is activated, and whether an engine water temperature meets a forced HVAC recirculation intake threshold. Responsive to determining that the engine water temperature meets the forced HVAC recirculation intake threshold, a recirculation mode air source can be selected for the HVAC system. Responsive to the recirculation mode air source being selected, determining if at least one measured vehicle condition meets predetermined criteria. Responsive to determining that the at least one measured vehicle condition meets the predetermined criteria, the variable compressor can be operated according to a reduced duty map.

Abstract: A heat storage system using a heat storage container includes a tubular body, a chemical heat storage material accommodated in the tubular body, and a flow channel that penetrates the tubular body in a longitudinal direction. The heat storage system includes a diffusion layer for transporting liquid from the flow channel to the chemical heat storage material. The liquid functions as a reaction medium of the chemical heat storage material. The liquid is transported to the flow channel and the diffusion layer. The liquid transported to the diffusion layer reacts with the chemical heat storage material, the chemical heat storage material generates heat, and the liquid is vaporized by the heat to become heat transport fluid.

Abstract: A cooled wall of a turbine component includes a first layer of channels for a coolant arranged along a side of the wall facing to a flow of hot gas, the first layer of channels having a serpentine shape, each channel of the first layer having an inlet and an outlet; a second layer of channels for the coolant disposed further from the flow of hot gas than the first layer, each channel of the second layer having an inlet and an outlet, the outlet of each of the channels of the first layer being in fluid communication with corresponding inlet of associated channel of the second layer creating a bend for changing a direction of the coolant leaving the channel of the first layer when entering the channel of the second layer.

Abstract: A thermal roller (1) includes: a cylindrical body (2) extending along a longitudinal direction (X-X), the cylindrical body (2) including at least one inner tubular element (3) and at least one outer tubular element (4) that is concentrically arranged around the inner tubular element (3), the inner tubular element (3) includes an outer diameter d and the outer tubular element 4 includes an inner diameter D, being D>d; two hubs (6), each arranged at one end of the cylindrical body (2); at least one heat-exchange chamber (10) realized between the inner tubular element (3) and the outer tubular element (4). The roller includes: a coating layer (11) for the inner tubular element (3) made of plastics, and at least one helical channel (13) between the coating layer (11) and the outer tubular element (4). The helical channel (13) is realized at least partially in the coating layer (11).

Abstract: A method of heat recovery from bulk solids includes introducing the bulk solids into an inlet of a heat exchanger for indirect heat exchange with water as the bulk solids flow, by gravity, from the inlet to an outlet of the heat exchanger, pumping the water into subcritical heating heat transfer elements within the heat exchanger for indirect heat exchange with the bulk solids to heat the water and thereby provide heated, pressurized water, and flashing off steam from the heated, pressurized water.